Wednesday, May 14th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

This week in our ongoing exploration of air, we will be looking to those kin who have an intimate understanding of this element (beyond human understanding), birds. Join us as Teresa Kopec presents bird appreciation and a skill share to encourage us to consider how we can better relate to our bird-kin. Teresa Kopec has been photographing birds internationally and in her own backyard for years. In this talk she will share experiences and tips on connecting with these magnificent creatures of the Air through observation and photography.

Wednesday, May 7th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As we continue to explore the element of air as the medium that carries and stimulates a multitude of sensations, emotions, and images, we invited our Kinship community to consider how smell might impact the way we make photographs. Photographers were invited to consider how smell impacts their sense of kinship and how that changes the way we see, feel and make photographs. Join us for a Kinship Show & Share and we explore the photographs and experiences of each contributing photographer.

Wednesday, April 30th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us this week as photo-based artist and visual researcher Jake Eshelman considers scent as both a creative medium and an ecological language. His talk begins in the heart of the Costa Rican rainforest, where he will share his experiences and fieldwork with one of nature’s original perfumers: orchid bees. From here, Jake will offer us a glimpse into his creative practice, where he has recently begun exploring how olfaction can be the aesthetic and ecological power to build more intimate interspecies relationships.

Wednesday, April 23rd at 7 pm EDT

Celebrate the Earth’s flow as we share the photographs made by our Kin around the globe during our Earth Day photo relay. Together we will celebrate the magical synchronicities that arise through collaboration while reveling in the unique power of collective vision to shape and change how we relate to the natural world.

Wednesday, April 16th @ 7 PM ET via Zoom

Correspondences, a collaborative exhibition by 10 Canadian photographers, is a powerful example of the remarkable work that can be produced when artists gather in creative conversation with each other. Join us as we talk with each of the artists about their work and their experiences creating a collaborative exhibition.

Wednesday, April 9th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

There is no better way to explore our elemental and essential relationships to photography than in a practice group. Join us this Wednesday for the opportunity to meet the practice group facilitators, learn more about each group, and choose the one that best fits your practice. Attendees on Wednesday will be given early access to practice group sign-ups.

Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join kinship members Chris Warner-Carey and Lyn Swett Miller for this introduction to the first element, Air, in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemental life. They will share what they have learned from other photographers' relationships to air, as well as how they have come to more deeply understand this element through their work. Chris and Lyn will also share brief summaries of this spring’s practice groups in preparation for our more in-depth practice information session on April 9th 

Wednesday, March 26th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us this Wednesday for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of our newest call for engagement Elementals. In this latest “Call,” Kinship invites photographers to explore their relationship with air, fire, water, and earth. Drawing on the Elementals book series from The Center for Humans & Nature.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 19th, 7 pm EDT

Over the past year, we have come together to explore embodied photographic practices that are grounded in the senses, shared conversations between bodies, noticed and deepened the relationships that connect all bodies. Join us in a celebration of the work created by the Kinship community around the Between Bodies theme. During this gathering, we will also be introducing our new call, Elementals, which we will be unfolding over the coming weeks.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 12th, 7 pm EDT

Photography allows us to search for meaning and celebrate the mysticism of the mundane. From the ordinary to the abstract, we find in our images both beauty and tension.  Join Alli Harper and Kaye Savage as they share photographs and reflections inspired by the following questions: How can we find metaphor in the journeys of sediment, from its origin in rock to its settling as mud and the creatures that inhabit it? How can our photographic practice help us navigate chaos by claiming beauty? Can the personal become universal through our unique practices, as photography takes us where words cannot?

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 5th, 7 pm EST

Join Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta for a Between Bodies inspired conversation about transience and presence. In Julie Williams Dixon’s collection Between transience and eternity: one afternoon at the river, she pondered the transience of her physical body in juxtaposition to ancient surroundings. In Paul Wanta’s ongoing project In This Place he celebrates the intimate, familiar, and fleeting landscapes near his home in Wendell, Massachusetts.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 26th, 7 pm ET

Join Eliza Bell Sweizbach and Kaoly Gutierrez for a conversation about intimacy, vulnerability, and photography between people. Both Eliza’s project, Gravida, and Kaoly’s project I’m Sorry. Forgive Me. Thank You. I Love You, enter the realm of the vulnerable and explore the connections between us. Together we will contemplate how photography can deepen our connections to each other, and what changes in us when we make vulnerable images.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 19th, 7 pm ET

Join Rosie Villano and their mother Ann as they reflect on their ongoing inter-generational creative conversation about perception, people and the places they love. Using their “Between Bodies” portfolios Unearthed and Common Ground as a starting place, they will share their experiences together from a beloved house in Maine and their explorations in Mexico.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 12th, 7 pm ET

In what ways do your photographs help you pay your love forward into the world? Is creative attention a form of love? Can a photograph be a love letter? A year ago, the Kinship community gathered together to share images and stories in response to these questions. We feel called to return to these questions now more than ever. Join us for a community show & share that reflects on our creative attention and affection.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 5th, 7 pm ET

Join Erik Mace as he discusses his recently published photo essay, Fabian and Rose. Begun in 2019, his essay in Southern Cultures features photography and writing based on returning to his grandparents’ house in Missouri for the first time in thirty years. The essay navigates the complexities of family history, memory, and the elusive nature of truth, revealing the intimate details and textures of a home that held untold, or perhaps unknowable, stories.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 29th, 7 pm ET

Join us for a portfolio share with Frances Bukovsky of their in-process body of work, A Cherished Embrace of Iron and Water. This body of work asks how we can combine archival research and materials with an embodied photographic practice to explore the past, present, and potential future of the relationships that shape place. This conversation will be facillitated by Kaye Savage.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 22nd, 7 pm ET

Please join us for and inspiring conversation with folks from the National Parks Arts Foundation and the Shenandoah National Park Artist in Residence program. Learn about upcoming opportunities, open calls for applications, insights on what makes a great application, and how residencies can lead to additional opportunities like artist-run community workshops and museum exhibitions.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 15th , 7 pm ET

At Kinship, our weekly artist talks, calls for engagement, practice groups, and curated galleries are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. We are interested in learning more about what is working for you and what kinds of programs, themes, exhibitions and calls for engagement would best support your practice this year. Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our 2025 programming.

January 8th 2025 @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

What defines a body of work? What holds it together? When is it complete? After working together for nearly one year, seven members of the Pacing & Perseverance practice group will share their experiences of working on a number of long term projects and how they balanced their work alongside everything else that happens in life.

Wednesday, January 1st @ 7 pm ET

Join us for a spacious conversation and New Year’s Day community show & share. Together we will mark the end of 2024 and the start of 2025 with images and stories. We want to hear about your inner and outer explorations, questions, triumphs, challenges, and inspirations - and your creative intentions for the coming year. Everyone is invited to share work.