'It's hard to stop rebels that time travel' PART II with Raymond Thompson Jr.
Wednesday, January 25th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Can we bend time back on itself through image, text, and narrative? Photographer Raymond Thompson Jr is aspiring to do just that. By creating through lines that move across a 240-year period of history, the sights and locations in his photographs become metaphoric portals in the landscape. Join us for Part II as Raymond generously shares new questions, photographs, and creative revelations from his unfolding project.
Sweeping the Graves: Photo-based Rituals with Dawn Surratt
Wednesday, January 18th on Zoom @ 7pm ET
Please join us for a thoughtful conversation with Dawn Surratt. Together we will explore how community collaboration can enhance our photographic practice as well as the quiet and tender ways that creative rituals contribute to community healing.
Partners: Call for Engagement
Wednesday, Wednesday, January 11th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
For the next four weeks, we will explore rhizomatic relationships–the multiple and non-hierarchical threads that connect us through interdependent partnerships. Together we will explore how photography can help us find new ways of collaborating and making meaning together.
With Rapture & Astonishment: Gallery Livestream and Artist Talk
January 4th, 2023 on Zoom @ 7pm ET
This livestream event features a video walkthrough of the With Rapture & Astonishment exhibition, conversations with the artists, and an overview of how you can participate in the Bartram Trail community archive project.
Marking Time: A New Year’s Eve Show & Share
Saturday, December 31st @ 7 pm ET
Join us for a spacious, heartful conversation and year-end ritual. Together we will mark the end of 2022 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. Please bring photographs and stories to share!
Embracing Chaos & Combining Text and Image to Tell a Story: Practice Group Circle Backs
Wednesday, December 14th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
This week we will celebrate the wisdom and work of two practice groups. Join a collection of photographers as they explore Embracing Chaos & Combining Text and Image to Tell a Story
Seeing Beauty & Reconciling Extremes: Practice Group Circle Backs
Wednesday, December 7th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
This week we will celebrate the wisdom and work of two practice groups. Join ten photographers as they explore Reconciling Extremes & Seeing Beauty.
The Magic of the Mundane & Personality of Place: Practice Group Circle Backs
Wednesday, November 30th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
This week we will celebrate the wisdom and work of two practice groups. Join eleven photographers as they explore the Magic of the Mundane and the Personality of Place.
Persons: A Community Show & Share
Wednesday, November 16thh, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
How does photography help us reconsider our definitions of personhood? Over the past several weeks, our community has been digging into this question. Join us as we share images from the community and engage in further discussion around this topic. Themes will explore personhood in the human, the non-human, the scientific, and the digital spaces, as well as many more.
Sewing New Seeds with Kimberly M. Anderson
Wednesday, November 9th at 7 pm ET on Zoom
Join us for a rich conversation with Kimberley M. Anderson about her multidimensional work that explores Black family history, folklore, imagination & spirituality. Combining photography, collage, and alternative processes, Kim creates alternate worlds guided by celestial and ancestral realms.
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.