Kindred Connections: News & Opportunities
Our community's creative life doesn't stop when a gathering closes or a practice group wraps. It carries forward — into exhibitions, book launches, awards, and new work moving out into the world, and into invitations that reach us from kindred organizations beyond our circle. Here we celebrate the milestones our members are reaching, and share calls for submission and collaboration, both from within our community and from organizations whose work feels like kin to ours. This is where kinship keeps reaching outward, and where the wider world reaches back.
Call for Photographers: Deadline July 31st
Kominek Gallery invites you to submit your work to be a part of an upcoming exhibition. This exhibition will include 100 images made by 100 photographers.
Deadline: 7/31
Fee: FREE
Submission: 1-5 Images
Selection Includes: Exhibition at Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany, beginning on September 10, 2026.
Call for Photographs
Please join us in a collaborative journey that starts with the poemGleamby Heather Swan and ends with a collaborative final project hosted on the Kinship website. Visit our website and download and print Heather’s poem so you can read it, live with it and repsond with images of your own. We are eager to see your responses.
Deadline: 8/15
Fee: FREE
Submission: 1-5 images.
Call for Photographs
In honor of National Grief Awareness Day on August 30, this open call explores the unique relationship between nighttime and the processing of loss.
Deadline: 8/8
Fee: FREE with optional €5 or €10 donation
Submission: Images from one project related to nighttime and grief.
August 15th 10am - 8pm @ Atlanta Center for Photography
In this all-day, practice-focused workshop, photographer Frances Bukovsky will guide participants through prompts, questions, and exercises that introduce new ways of approaching self-portraiture as a creative practice.
Wednesday, July 22nd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom
Like photography, the imagery and language of poetry can take us into time, out of time, beyond time. Heather Swan's poetry investigates the mysteries of human presence in landscapes of deep time, insect time, lake time, times of grief and times of elation. She will share poems and approaches that overlap the art of image-making with the lens and image-making with words.
Call for Artists: Deadline August 14th
The Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center (CSAHC) is announcing a call to artists for their SPOTFIN: Art and Nature Gathering. Artists are invited to submit up to three works that can be loosely inspired by the title and theme of the exhibit and the gathering, which will include nature and art-based workshops, hikes, guest lecturers, and more. For more information and to submit, visit the Cowee School website.
Opening July 16th, Ridge Art Gallery, Spartanburg, SC 5-8pm
This community art show benefits local animal organizations in Spartanburg, South Carolina and brings together art, animals, and community. Attend the opening at Ridge Art Gallery on July 16th at 5-8pm.
May 29th at Palm and Pine Studio in Asheville, NC. 6-8pm. All Ages!
Learn how to make 3 different styles of zines in this beginner friendly zine class with Frances Bukovsky. You bring the photos, and Frances will bring the rest. You’ll leave with three zines of your own and the tools to make many, many more! Registration fee is $35, all supplies included. Register here.
June 22-26, 2026 - Sante Fe Workshops
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.
Openings for Retreats & Residencies
Do you miss the smell of darkroom or the thrill of removing a roll of film from the developing tank? Our darkroom at Kinship Studio in Cumberland, Maryland, is ready for you. We offer self-funded residencies and studio retreats ranging from self-directed and independent to fully-guided and supported. In film formates from 35mm - 8×10. If you analog curious, we even have film cameras you can borrow. Visit us this summer and experience the slow-joy of analog photography.
Limited Edition Book
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
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.
Share your photographs with us.
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.
Call for Entry
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.
Reflecting from Glendale
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.