June 22-26, 2026 Sante Fe Workshops, Sante Fe, NM, USA

Register for a week-long workshop with artist and educator Anna Rotty that uses iterative processes in photography and digital printmaking in collaboration with the land. Moving between the land and the studio, participants will remix digital images and prints with found natural elements.

After an amazing year of renovations by generous volunteers, Kinship Studio in Cumberland, Maryland, is open for retreats.

Kinship Studio welcomes photographers and makers of all skill levels looking to seed, incubate, launch, or complete personal work or community projects We offer self-funded residencies and studio retreats ranging from self-directed and independent to fully-guided and supported.

To celebrate, Kinship supporting members receive a 20% discount on their studio and lodging rates on retreats scheduled in 2026.

Initiation is an artist book by Paula Damasceno featuring 26 Risograph-printed pages that bring text and image into a tactile sequence. Written across English, Yoruba, Portuguese, and Spanish, it draws together Orisha iconographies and mythologies with layered histories of the Americas. Risograph reproductions of original tintypes suggest offerings made to the Orishas by unidentifiable, and at times absent, subjects.

June 22-26, 2026 9am-12pm at Toe River Arts Council in Spruce Pine, NC. Ages 13-16.

Registration is open for this youth summer camp through the Toe River Arts Council. Explore photo zines as a way to document daily life and tell visual stories. Campers will learn basic photography, collage techniques, and bookmaking while studying contemporary and historical photographers who use zines in their practice. Each student will create a handmade zine filled with photographs taken throughout the week.

It is time to share your Elemental Earth photographs. Your photographs will be woven into a community slideshow on Wednesday, March 18th at 7 pm EDT, during our weekly gathering, as well as online and through our social media, pop-up galleries, and collaborative curations.

November 29, 2025 – January 10, 2026

Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to present Super | Natural, a solo exhibition by Dawn Roe. This marks Roe’s third exhibition with the gallery and brings together works spanning almost five years of activity from the artist’s indefinitely ongoing series, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, a collective archive of earth, plant, and animal forms living and dying together across both great and small distances.

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (TCVA) is excited to announce the call for entry to this year’s upcoming 23rd Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition exhibition. This year’s exhibition will be juried by Ty Murray, artivist and Director of Art & Communications at The Bottom, a nonprofit cultural organization in Knoxville, TN, who chose, “I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings” as this year’s exhibition theme.

Glendale serves as the site for Wofford’s Long Term Environmental Reflection program, where artist and writers are invited to explore the preserve and village as part of the Goodall Visiting Fellows program. Creative people across disciplines are invited to reflect on six sites – to bring their own unique perspectives and see what emerges as they spend time there. This exhibit, as a milestone along this journey in time, is a chance for the extended community to appreciate and reflect on this important and special place.

“Natural Time” by Eric William Carroll is now on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC. This piece was commissioned by the NCMA and was created on the museum grounds earlier this summer. The 84 cyanotype panels were exposed to a collection of River Birches chosen by the artist.

Inspired by our Kinship conversation with Jake Eshelman, we will be collecting scent in the form of photographs by visually recording the impact that scent has on the way we see, relate to, and connect with the subjects we smell. We invite you to join us in the making and sharing of photographs on Wednesday, May 7th at 7 pm EDT on Zoom.

On Tuesday, April 22nd, join Kinship in creating a sunrise-to-sunset view of the Earth from wherever you are. In response to Earth Day's 2025 theme, OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, the Kinship Photography Collective will be celebrating the power of photography (and community) to awaken and inspire new ways of seeing, knowing, and caring.  

Artist Reception March 22nd, 4pm - 6 pm, Turchin Center, Boone, North Carolina

What does it mean to belong somewhere? In Making Kin: Belonging & Longing in Appalachia, we asked photographers to show us how Appalachia shapes their sense of kinship and belonging. From across the full range of Appalachia, the artists featured in this exhibition offer us moments of tenderness, resilience, and connection.

Public Reception March 5th 6pm - 8pm, Shenkman Arts Center, Ottowa, Canada

CORRESPONDENCES, a collaborative exhibition by 10 Kinship Photography Collective members in Ottowa, Canada, is now open at the Shenkman Arts Centre until April 18th.The works - varied, tender, personal, and vulnerable - invite us to reconsider our relationships with the world around us. As a whole, it is a love letter to the world in all its beauty and brokenness and an invitation to cultivate greater intimacy as we correspond with the more-than-human world.

Monday, May 12, 2025 9:00 AM - Friday, May 16, 2025 3:00 PM at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina

Unite your photographic practice with the materiality of place in the week-long course. We will begin by making meditative images on the Warren Wilson campus and along the Swannanoa River, considering elements of geologic time and cycles of nature. Next, we'll incorporate materials from the landscape, including soil pigments and found plant fragments, into unique handmade papers. Finally, we will join these two art forms through photographic transfer processes.

Between Bodies Call for Submissions

The best part of our Kinship calls-for-engagement is the opportunity to see and celebrate the variety of work each of you created and to weave that work into layered offerings that celebrate the power of creative and collaborative dialogue.

It is time to weave ourBetween Bodies explorations into galleries, featured projects, exhibitions, and collaborative shenanigans. Click here for our submission guidelines and share your work with us.

The fifteen Kinship Photography Collective artists featured in this pop-up exhibition, alongside twenty-six community collaborators, were asked to consider the question: “In what ways is William Bartram’s life, art, writings or philosophy relevant to your creative practice or process?” Each artist was encouraged to go wherever their inquiry took them. Bartram himself might say their encounters were “infinitely varied and without bound.” These installations are best viewed not as answers but as emerging maps of inquiry that offer an interior look into how contemporary artists are encountering Bartram.

Kinship community member Rita Kovtun is hosting another community photo walk for photographers in and around Asheville, NC on Wednesday, May 22 at 5pm - around 7pm at the Asheville Botanical Gardens. All photographers welcome! Rita is asking participants to RSVP via the below linked Facebook event or to contact her directly.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1581748282610399/

For more information, read the original Circle Post: https://kinship-photo.circle.so/c/announcements-opportunities/community-photo-walk

This event is free and open to all, but your donations are welcome.

This week on Lenscratch, Beate Sass and Ruth Steinberg will be sharing a collaboration with Lenscratch that focuses on aging. Both Beate and Ruth have their own featured projects that will be shared as well as three additional photographers, including Kinship member Sarah Barker, from the US, Canada, and Australia that will be presenting work throughout the week.

Deep Ruts, a triple entendre alluding to the deep roots of religion, a deer in rut, the ruts of the mind in which our ways of thinking and values carve into our daily lives, is a collection of photographs from Queer Appalachian photographer Julie Rae Powers who uses still images to represent their feeling of outsider status within their family and their own culture. A combination of portraits and landscapes set an isolating, longing stage using Appalachian iconography and self portraits to queer the standard notion of what being Appalachian is.

Estimated shipping date is March/April 2024. Pre-orders help support the printing of the book.

Issue #6 of Point A to B includes artists Morganna Magee, who was a featured Kinship artist, Susan Patrice, who is a co-founder of Kinship, Nettie Edwards, Judyta Grudzien, and Brent Mathison.

In Conversation features the work of Leah Frances (US/CAN) and Octavia Sharp (US), whose color images of retro architecture - diners and funeral homes, respectively - address deeper societal issues such as the political divide and the disappearance of family-run businesses.

Obtain a copy of Point A to B on their website.