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

Lesly Deschler Canossi's multidimensional practice includes making, mentoring, and rewriting photo history. As an independent photo educator and mother artist with a strong urge to widen the lens of representation, she works to amplify a range of photo practitioners who have been omitted or written out of its rich history. Join us for a deep and layered conversation on creativity and representational justice as we explore photography’s multiple histories: as an artistic medium, as social text, as a technological tool, and as a cultural practice.

Wednesday, July 19th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a Kinship Duo with Beate Sass and Ruth Steinberg, two photographers who are lovingly photographing the bittersweet moments that arise in their relationships with their aging parents. Together we will explore the ways in which photography encourages us to find beauty in the most familiar places while calling us to love life as it is.

Wednesday, July 12th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic conversation with Matthew López-Jensen as we examine the role of documentation in art and activism. Matthew will be sharing several current overlapping landscape projects as well as a quick look at The Work and The Water, his current project as artist-in-residence with the Erie Canal. Together we will explore how pictures instigate change and how photographic documentation elevates the process of community engagement.

Wednesday, July 5th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

At Kinship, learning is rhizomatic, interconnected, and collaborative. Our weekly artist talks, calls for engagement, practice groups, and curated galleries are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. We want to hear from you.

Join us for our Summer community conversation where we will put our collaborative skills to work as we imagine the next installment of our Kinship collaborative experiment. Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our next collabortive call for engagement.

Wednesday, June 28th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

With approximately five billion photographs made every day, it can be utterly overwhelming to search and sift through other people's photos. Enter the archive! Artist and photographer Eric William Carroll will walk through his experience collaborating with archivists & archives and incorporating appropriated imagery into his own creative practice.

Wednesday, June 21st at 7 pm EDT

The Kinship Relay is an experiment in the playful magic and alchemy that can happen when we visually communicate across a network of kin. Like the childhood game of telephone, the Kinship Relay began with one community member contributing an image without knowledge of its journey. The next participant had 48 hours to submit a response to that image, and so on. Join us as the photographers share their unique results and the spin-off creative projects that have emerged from this collaboration.

Wednesday, June 14th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a conversation with Morganna Magee as we take a deep dive into her unique practice and the making of her book Extraordinary Experiences. Here, Morganna explores the supersensory phenomenon that arises during bereavement where grief and loss are made tangible as emotions, memories, and dreams embedded in photographs. Together, through this dynamic conversation, we will explore the mystical, primal, and sublime edges of photography.

Wednesday, June 7th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

For Dora Somosi, photography and pilgrimage are interwoven into one creative gesture. Her impressionistic imagery surfs an emotional riptide beneath which she explores and wrestles with big existential questions. Dora will be sharing work from two project—one finished and one emerging— while giving us a generous glimpse into her unique and varied photographic process and the cyclical way her projects unfold over time. Together we will ponder how our own photography practice has shaped and transformed who we are and who we are becoming.

Wednesday, May 31st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for part II of our conversation with Dawn Roe as she shares more about her project DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation. Through this thoughtful conversation Dawn will be taking us further along the path of her site-responsive practice while sharing how a varied understandings of descent – as passage, downward movement, decline, sinking, legacy, lineage, origination – helps us visualize our human-made worlds as a continuum, suggesting both the promise and peril of ecological longevity.

Wednesday, May 24th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

This week, we will be speaking with Lynne Buchanan about her new book The Poetry of Being which features photographs and poetry created by Lynne while navigating the unique challenges of caring for an aging and dying mother. Her stunning black and white landscape photographs and haiku poems celebrate Lynne’s approach to seeing and honoring the sensory and emotional elements of the landscape.

Wednesday, May 17th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

During this months Kinship members trio, we will be speaking with Kim Manley Ort, Julie Williams Dixon, and Elizabeth Abrams as we ponder what it means to use photography as a tool for seeing, loving, and caring. Each of the photographers featured in this trio have been photographing nearby places (sometimes daily) for many years while cultivating beauty, meaning and even healing.

Wednesday, May 10th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

During the month of April, twenty-five photographers of all levels celebrated the transformative power of photography by joining Kinship for a series of events and workshops held in the LivLab space in downtown Sylva, North Carolina. Community members and workshop facilitators created images collectively, culminating with a pop-up group show that explored all the wondrous ways we are connected to our natural world through photography. Join us for this Circle Back, where we will present and discuss the work we created together, with rich conversations between the community, facilitators, and the natural world.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Glendale Shoals Preserve in Spartanburg, South Carolina, invites artists, writers, and interdisciplinary wizards to stay for between two weeks and several months to reflect on our post-industrial landscape through their unique perspectives, as Goodall Visiting Fellows. The former cotton mill site, a river crossing, a cemetery, the remains of an old homestead, and two ecologically important sites serve as focal points. Since September 2022, 8 creators have investigated, explored, and reflected through various media. Join us as Kaye Savage facilitates sharing and conversation about the rich work that is arising there.

Wednesday, April 26th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join the Kinship community for a new monthly offering (the third Wednesday of the month) where we celebrate a trio of Kinship community members and invite them into a dynamic conversation about their personal projects. This month we will be exploring the theme of Renewal with Kinship members Anna Gage Norton, Jon Stuart & Lyn Swett Miller. In conversation with this trio of photographers we will ponder the unique and extraordinary ways that our photography practice can inspire love, care, play, restoration, and renewal.

Wednesday, April 19th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

As we continue to explore what it means to partner and collaborate with the natural world and each other, we will be speaking with artists from Recovery, a highly collaborative eco-arts project exploring ecology and art alongside the work of citizen scientists in response to the 'Black Summer' fires in the Blue Mountains, Australia. We will speak with curator and creative producer Justin Morrissey, poet and photographer Fiona Vaughan, and visual artist and printmaker Freedom Wilson. Together we will explore the many ways that art builds resilience and how the power of collaboration (across mediums) might prepare us to creatively respond to catastrophic climate-related events in the future.

Wednesday, April 5th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

At Kinship, learning is rhizomatic, interconnected, and collaborative. Our weekly artist talks, calls for engagement, practice groups, and curated galleries are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. We want to hear from you. What best supports you on your journey to kinship? Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our (ever) emerging photography collective.

Wednesday, March 29th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Many of us long for a way to make a difference. Sometimes, the most important work is as close as our front yards. This week we will talk with Vera Saltzman and Sue Bland, co-creators of “where will the frogs sing?” Together they explore what it means to hold a deep relationship with nearby land while transforming their internalized colonial mindsets and creating opportunities for public engagement and conversation. Join us as we explore what it means to care for the land that cares for us. And how witnessing and attending to even the smallest remnants of land is work that truly matters.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Please join us for a rich conversation with Lynn Alleva Lilley. Lynn’s projects, including her artist photobook Deep Time, inspire contemplation of time, creation, evolution, and interspecies connection. Together we will explore what deep time looks and feels like in the present and the role that contemplation, photographic curiosity, and research can play in our processes and projects.

Wednesday, March 15th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic conversation on geology, deep time, and alternative interspecies possibilities with Oscar Salguero. Together we will explore the unique and powerful roles that exhibitions, books, and libraries can play in shifting cultural perspectives by helping deepen respect and understanding for the more-than-human worlds.

Wednesday, March 8th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Trebbe Johnson, artist and author of Radical Joy for Hard Times, invites us to imagine new ways to attend to hurt and broken places. For Trebbe, learning to engage artfully is a radical, courageous, and loving act. Join us as Trebbe shares what it means to“gaze even here” and how this creates paths to meaningful, creative, and inclusive ways to express sorrow while creating beauty and even joy amid ruin.