Wednesday, September 13th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join Katie Mooney Buzby, the Executive Director of the Peter Bullough Foundation, and an eclectic line of photo-based alums including Kinship member Frances Bukovsky. Together they will be sharing their experiences with the power of artist residencies and the role they can play as you further your practice, test out ideas, and create or complete projects.

Wednesday, September 6th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join artist & visual researcher Jake Eshelman as we explore why photography is an essential tool in shaping our ecological behaviors, policies, and attitudes. Together we will explore how our photographic practices are uniquely able to elegantly and effectively (re)shape worldviews, engage viewers, and encourage ecological problem-solving.

Wednesday, August 30th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a presentation of works by twenty women photographers closely associated with Mexico, presented by BMC/MX Project Director Eric Baden. Spanning a century to include the present day, the works of these photographers resonate with contemporary issues in the arts and speak to broader cultural, societal, and political concerns.

Wednesday, August 21st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

With an immense amount of sensitivity and respect, Steve Mann has been celebrating and photographing indigenous communities for over 20 years including producing We Won’t Bow Down, a documentary featuring the culture of Mardi Gras Indians. His newest photography exhibition Indian Relay, was photographed at the 2022 Sheridan Wyoming Rodeo World Championship Indian Relay Race. The photographs feature teams from the northern plains nations such as Crow, Blackfeet, Oglala Sioux, and Northern Cheyenne. Steve will be joined by Tyson Sampson (they/them/he/him) an Eastern Band Cherokee Indian (ᎠᏳᏫᏯ ᎨᏯᏔᎯᎤᏁᏉᎳᏗᏍᎩ) who has made multi-faceted contributions on everything from documenting endangered language to sharing wild food practices and cultural sensibilities about Cherokee cuisine and culture.

Wednesday, August 16th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join the Kinship Photography Collective for a virtual reception and artist talk celebrating the most recent iteration of the With Rapture and Astonishment exhibition currently on display at the University of Georgia Circle Gallery. Join us for a tour of the show and a conversation with the curators and artists about shaping and reshaping exhibitions in response to new spaces and communities.

Wednesday, August 2nd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for an in-depth discussion on the significance of place. With Elizabeth Ransom as our guide, we will explore how alternative forms of photography can be used to navigate stories of global movement and migration.  Based between the Pacific Northwest and the South of England artist, researcher, and educator Elizabeth Ransom draws from her own personal experience of migration to visualize the complex and individual understanding of transnationality.

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.