Wednesday, February 11th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us in conversation with Daniel Hansche as they share their unique experiences of animal tracking & perception, and how these skills invite new ways of seeing and responding to nature’s unfolding story with greater ease, depth, and clarity.  For millennia, trackers have cultivated an exquisite vision of the world far surpassing the original function of providing sustenance and safety. Similarly, photographers have long-developed acute observation skills, expressing and reproducing what they see and feel. What do these embodied practices have to offer each other? 

Wednesday, February 4th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In this dynamic conversation, Megan will share a body of work in progress through the lens of Imbolc, alongside a field guide she’s been making.  Through her beautifully layered work, Megan will generously unearth her equally layered process, which uses photography, data, timing, and seasonal observations to mark rituals along the Celtic Wheel of the Year and the Lakota Medicine Wheel, thereby creating and documenting a modern family culture of both traditions. Can the act of making a photograph be sacred? As multicultural people, how do we make honorable relationships with ancestral paths? Ours, and others? 

Wednesday, January 28th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Photography demands that we be in relationship with forces far beyond our control. Light shifts. Weather intervenes. The more-than-human world sets its own terms. The practice of Slow Looking offers a way to cozy up to our work, to be with it unhurriedly, and to notice what emerges when we stay a little longer than feels comfortable. During this gathering, we will engage in the practice of Slow Looking to learn how to talk about what we see and listen for what emerges.

Wednesday, January 21st, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Over the course of three years, David Walter Banks paddled 500 miles and spent 69 nights deep in the Okefenokee Swamp. His resulting book, Trembling Earth: A Transcendental Trip Through the Okefenokee, is part activism and part spiritual epiphany. For David, the Okefenokee is more than its biological wealth; it holds a mystical energy that renders its well-trodden waterways terra incognita to the first-time visitor. Trembling Earth captures not only what can be seen but also what can be felt: the unmistakable yet ineffable quality of this primordial space.

Wednesday, January 14th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

We will begin our exploration of Earth with photographers Mike Belleme and Lyn Swett Miller, both intimate with soil and the tender moments of life being made and unmade, composed and decomposed. Here we are invited to remember that the genus Homo is derived from the Latin word for “humus”—the dark, organic material that forms in soil. Together, we will ponder the depths that can be found in attending to Earth cycles and the role photography can play in awakening humility and returning us home to the ground of our being.

January 7th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

For the next twelve weeks, we invite our kin to envision the unique ways we weave meaning from the complexity and multiplicity of our earthbound experiences. What depths can be found in Earth’s cycles? Can embodied photographic practices inspire earthy perspectives that awaken the transformative power of humility, interdependence, connection, and care? Through practice, can we foster co-creative and collaborative partnerships with the living earth that invite mutual flourishing? Can photography be a compass that reorients us physically, spiritually, and ethically?

Wednesday, December 31st @ 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us for a spacious, heartfelt conversation and year-end ritual. Together, we will mark the end 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 and projects for the coming year.

Sunday, December 21st @ 10 am EST on Zoom

During the fall season, the Elemental Year practice group utilized the power of embodied rituals, contemplative practices, deep reflection, and playful intuition to explore their fundamental relationships to elemental Water. Please join us on the Winter Solstice as we celebrate Water and our transition to the element of Earth.

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?