Wednesday, December 17th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

The third season in Kinship’s exploration of Elementals brought us on a shapeshifting journey as we explored our relationship with water. Our final Elementals: Water gathering will feature images made by the Kinship community, inspired by the questions and visual conversations of our immersion. We invite you to share 1-5 images by Tuesday, December 16th, at 6:00 pm EST to contribute to the community slideshow.

Wednesday, December 10th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In this five-week practice group, seven photographers explored water as both a literal and a metaphorical photographic subject. Water is unique in that it exists in all three states: solid, liquid, and gas. Together, this practice group explored water’s transitional states while asking: How does water’s fluidity manifest in natural and human-made environments, and how can it inform how we live our lives as artists?

Wednesday, December 3rd, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us for the first in our series of Water Practice Group Circle Backs as we speak with participants of Objects Embodied facilitated by Lyn Swett Miller, and Bodies Connected by Water facillitated by Frances Bukovsky. Together we will explore how water inspired embodied photographic practices within these groups as they generously share from their work and experiences.

Wednesday, November 19th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Ruth Kaplan’s The Bathers explores the balance between the intimate and the communal in the shared experience of public bathing. Ruth will share her early inspiration for the project, the challenges of long-term photographic documentary work, the experiential aspect of being both a bather and a voyeur simultaneously, and how she brought the work into the world through exhibitions, a book, magazine articles, and other forms of installation over an extended period of time. Together, we will explore photographic issues such as photographing strangers in environments that are private, the balance between participant and voyeur, and the impact of a photographer’s gaze.

Wednesday, November 12th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join Anna Rotty as she shares work from her recent installation, Shallows Unfolding, which synthesizes the act of the sun rising over the river and the process of UV wastewater treatment, representing flow, evaporation, condensation, and human intervention with large-scale photographic prints, collected materials from the dried riverbed, and river water amplified through light.

November 5th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

 As we continue our water journey – whether it feels like going downstream, across the open seas, or changing form completely – let’s share how we are moving through water and how it is moving through us. We invite you to share up to 5 photographs that reflect your recent experiences with the water element.  Learn more about how to contribute images to our community slideshow before November 4th.

Wednesday, October 29th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic conversation with two avid adventures, Doug Woodward and Steve Snell as they share experiences and historical context related to their artistic and advocacy practices around rivers. Steve Snell finds inspiration in local history and place for his adventure art. Doug Woodward will touch on his experiences doing stunt work for and advising the filming of Deliverance.

Wednesday, October 22nd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

This talk will bring together works spanning almost five years of activity from Dawn Roe’s indefinitely ongoing series, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, with a particular focus on the current iteration prepared for her upcoming exhibition, Super | Natural, opening in November at Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville. Roe will share selected works from the exhibition that question common usage of the terms “nature” and “natural,” while embracing the spectral associations of the above, and beyond.

Wednesday, October 15th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join photographers and eco-activists Lynne Buchanan and Susan Preston as they share their experiences documenting threatened waterways around the world.  In addition to the heartbreaking existential threats of rising ocean temperatures, global air currents, and the climate crisis, they are each finding hopeful signs in the way the environment regenerates and evolves even after extreme storms and unprecedented geological events.

Wednesday, October 8th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

At precisely 0.01 °C and 611.73 mb, water can simultaneously exist in three states. It is under these exact conditions that we get a glimpse of the intricate thresholds underpinning order in nature. Triple Point: It’s Only Water introduces studio-crafted images of water that are seen as both defining and transformative elements in the context of climate change. This discussion considers the relevance of still-life images as useful photographic tools to illustrate the delicate balance found in the natural world.

October 1st, 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

What water stories have you photographed? What Water themes are already present in your work? Join us for a community share as we continue to kick off our Water season by gathering around images from our community that show our current relationship to water, and engage in rich discussion that allows us to explore how those relationships might shift over the course of the next season.

September 24th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As we approach the mid-point of our Elementals call for engagement, we will be turning our attention to Water. As a living presence, Water is part of our everyday lives and also provides opportunities for awe and wonder. How can photography invite us to ponder the traditions, perspectives, sensations, and aspirations linked to this vital element? What can we do to protect and enhance this fundamental resource for us and the living world?

September 17th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

During this past summer, many of us investigated how photography can help us keep and tend to our elemental relations with fire as it reveals itself in objects, in our bodies and in the land around us. Together this week, we will explore how the many manifestations of fire bring us in closer relationship with our earthly kin. If our images from this time were to gather around a fire, what stories would they share?

September 10th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for insights and work shared by the participants of the Bodies Connected by Fire practice group. This group gathered around questions sparked by the relationships between bodies and fire, and used self portraiture as a way to explore personal connections to fire.

September 3rd 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over the summer, sixteen photographers utilized the power of embodied rituals, contemplative practices, deep reflection, and playful intuition to explore their fundamental relationships to the element of “fire”. Together, we pondered whether embodied practices could spark and ignite new ways of seeing and moving in relationship to the living world.

August 27th @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

The objects in our possession carry ancient energy that can be transformed by re-imagining our relationship to the spirits those objects contain—sometimes by simply taking them for a walk in the woods or down a stone path, or placing them onto a windowsill, and letting the play of light do its magic. It is often those smallest of moments, with the simplest of objects, that can transport us in unexpected and powerful ways. Join six Kinship artists as they explore the power of objects as portals to memory and meaning.

Wednesday, August 20th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

While the late summer sun is still blessing us with an abundance of ultraviolet light, we will be exploring cyanotype printing. Cyanotype is a photographic process that uses a light-sensitive solution made from ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide to create striking cyan-blue prints. This week we will walk through the basics of cyanotype printing, share work from photographers who are creating inspiring cyanotype images, and share links and resources to get you started.

Wednesday, August 13th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Please join us this week and help shape our emerging retreat, workshop, and residency center in Cumberland, MD. Over the last six months we have been renovating a glorious but once neglected home, and now it is time to turn our attention towards designing studios, digital labs, darkrooms, and private retreat spaces. We envision a place where artists have affordable access to the tools, support, and time they need to do their best work.

Wednesday, August 6th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a rich conversation with Dakota Mace, who uses visual language steeped in symbolism and resonance to create intimate spaces in which the past is not merely recalled but felt—transforming the act of seeing into a shared experience of collective remembrance. In this conversation, we will take a deep dive into DAHODIYINII—SACRED PLACES, Mace’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico, is a poetic meditation on the intricate bonds between people, Land, and memory.

Wednesday, July 30th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us this week as we dive into the alchemy of alternative processes and collage with Kimberly Anderson. Drawing from Southern Black spiritual traditions and family histories, Kimberly weaves together alternative processes, collage, natural dyes, and altered vernacular objects. Kimberly’s work questions how memory degrades, how it curls, warps, or becomes scorched by time.