Will the Circle Be Unbroken with Jesse Barber
Wednesday, November 2nd at 7 pm ET on Zoom
This week will be speaking with Appalachian photographer Jesse Barber about cultural and familial cycles that influence and impact who we are and how we see and respond to the world. Together we will explore how listening can be a form of love that allows us to use photography as a way to ask and answer deeper questions about the past, present, and future.
Photography and the Un/Body with Ash Hagerstrand and Frances Bukovsky
Wednesday, October 26th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
This week we will be speaking with Ash Hagerstrand, a digital maximalist whose work incorporates collage, virtual augmentation, identity curation, and photography.
Behold the Land with Sheila Pree Bright
Wednesday, October 19th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
This week will be speaking with Sheila Pree Bright about her recent work Behold the Land, inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois. Behold the Land focuses on the Southern landscape, where she encounters personhood and spirit in the presence of the land. Hosted by Raymond Thompson Jr., you will not want to miss this conversation.
Persons: Call for Engagement
Wednesday, October 12th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
The definition of personhood is malleable. Western society has historically constructed strict categories of personhood - how can photography help us expand our definitions of it? Through practice, can we learn to respectfully engage in relationships and conversations with all persons?
Behind Glass with Anne Berry
Wednesday, October 5th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Photographer Anne Berry will share images from her recent book, Behind Glass, an intimate collection of photographs made in monkey houses of small zoos throughout Europe. Her photographs depict a wide range of emotions and expressions and reveal an undeniable communication between herself and the primates she visits.
Place: Community Show and Share - Part II
Wednesday, September 28th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Last week we gathered images from Kinship Circle and Instagram to share, discuss and celebrate. The photographs and conversations were so rich and inspiring that we needed to add an extra week to do the work justice. This week we will gather for Place: Part II. If you missed last week, don’t worry, you can jump right in. Together we will celebrate the wisdom we have gleaned through our exploration of place.
Practice Group Open House
Wednesday, September 14th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for a practice group meet and greet, ask questions, and find the practice group that best supports your creative practice. Attendees of the open house will get early access to practice group registration.
Bewilderment with Erik Mace
Wednesday, September 7th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Join Erik Mace as he discusses his newest book, Slate, an effort to give agency back to our planet and voice to its landscapes, both natural and created. Slate highlights gesture, form, color, texture, and pattern as building blocks for a new language, one that is informed by the natural world.
The Centered Return with Christopher Colville
Wednesday, August 31st at 7 pm ET on Zoom
During this thoughtful conversation, Christopher Colville will share insights from his cyclical and meditative practice and how it inspires him to investigate curiosities, stay creatively centered, and make outrageously beautiful images in the midst of his normal daily life.
In Response to Places with Christine Carr
Wednesday, August 24th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
For Christine Carr, each place is a unique encounter, and each body of work lives as a testament to her ability to respond emotionally and intellectually to our rapidly changing world.
The Multivalent Landscape with Michael Lundgren
Wednesday, August 17th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Michael Lundgren's darkly beautiful photographs give the viewer a window into a mystical world where time itself seems to collapse.
Place: Call for Engagement
Wednesday, August 10th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
To begin our exploration of place, we will explore how photography help us deepen our intimacy with the natural world and the places we inhabit. And how, through practice, we can foster a sense of belonging, re-learn ways of caring, and return to kinship.
Planet: A Community Show & Share
Wednesday, August 3rd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
How does photography help us make kin with our planet? This week, we will gather, share, discuss and celebrate the photographs you have created and the wisdom you have gleaned through your own exploration of Planet.
Finding Solace in Nostalgia with Anna Rotty
Wednesday, July 27th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Through material investigations and alternative installation techniques, Anna Rotty creates slow, constructed images of potential future worlds.
An Order of Things with Mike Belleme and Tristan Spinski
Wednesday, July 20th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Photographers Tristan Spinski and Mike Belleme will consider two bodies of work side by side that look for patterns and meaning in the landscape at vastly different scales that reveal unseen worlds and underlying systems and relationships hiding in plain sight.
sun, water, being with Bryant Austin
Wednesday, July 13th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Bryant Austin’s dramatic landscape and nature images challenge our perceptions of reality and invite us into a world where humans and nature are one.
'It's hard to stop rebels that time travel' with Raymond Thompson Jr.
Wednesday, April 3rd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom
Can we bend time back on itself through image, text, and narrative? Photographer Raymond Thompson Jr is aspiring to do just that. Join us for our third behind-the-scenes look at his unfolding process and photographic practice. For Part III Raymond shares new questions, photographs, and creative revelations that have emerged since our last conversations, including thoughts on transforming this work from the studio to the gallery walls. With Raymond as our guide, we will explore how photography can help us engage in personal and cultural explorations of our own family histories.
Planet: Exploring Deep Time Through Photography
Wednesday, June 29, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
As we cross the threshold into summer, we will be exploring ways to use photography to connect with the scales of time and space in which our planet evolves. Can photography help us creatively respond to Earth’s planetary cycles–the motions of the continents and oceans, our passage around the sun, the journeys of wind, water, and dust–more consciously?
DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation with Dawn Roe
Wednesday, June 22, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for a thoughtful conversation with Dawn Roe and learn more about her site-responsive practice and how being a responder shapes the way she engages and collaborates with particular spaces and places.
Becoming Human in a More-Than-Human World with Gavin Van Horn
Wednesday, June 15th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for a lively conversation with Gavin Van Horn as we explore his passion for transdisciplinary projects that illuminate what it means to become human within a more-than-human world.