March 13th @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

Have you ever gotten stuck in your head or started spiraling aound all the creative decisions one has to make? Did it bring your practice to a standstill? This practice group circle back will help you rethink those standstill moments. Join eleven image makers as they celebrate randomness and collaboration through prompts that were designed to stir the imagination and blur the roles of artist, editor/curator and audience. Together we will explore and share fresh ways to liberate our creative practice.

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

Join us for a conversation with Choctaw multimedia artist Tricia Rainwater, whose beautifully embodied work delves into the exploration of identity and grief. Using various mediums, particularly photography, she investigates the embodiment of displacement and how individuals can confront loss by revisiting ancestral wounds. In her self-portraits Tricia captures the journey of recovery. Over five years of photographing herself in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, her images evolve, reflecting the changes in her life. Through self-reflection, she explores her needs, areas requiring healing, and the path to self-care and recovery, inviting the audience to join her on this journey of witnessing and being seen.

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

For this months makers in conversation with makers, we will be celebrating the 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective and speaking with them about their upcoming exhibition Nobody Sees A Flower opening March 1st at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

The 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective is a growing group of women artists bridging motherhood and art, their collective shares knowledge, supports creative self-actualization, and empowers professional advancement and collaborate on unique exhibitions while exploring their unique lived experiences as Mother/Artists.

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

As we move deeper into Between Bodies, we are excited for a multidimensional conversation with Ally Christmas about artmaking as a process of healing. Ally’s intricate, ritualistic images ask questions about how our experience of embodiment changes based on environmental and sociocultural factors. Ally will share how the cyclical process of filling and emptying guides her work.

Join us via Zoom on Wednesday, February 14th, 7 pm ET

Love comes in many forms and is expressed in so many ways. This Valentine’s Day, we will be having a community conversation about photography and love. As photographers, we bring such beautiful attention to the subjects of our affection. Is creative attention a form of love? In what ways do your photographs help you pay your love forward into the world? Is a photograph a love letter?

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

Join us for a multi-layered conversation with award-winning designer, bookmaker, and lifelong photographer Susan J. Preston as she shares images and stories from her award-winning self-published book BOSQUE, Winter Wings which is an offering of gratitude for the magical landscape and tens of thousands of migratory birds who winter over in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.

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

Join Sky Maggiore and Frances Bukovsky for an investigative conversation that explores the connections between embodiment and place and between seeing and being seen. Both artists, originally from rural New York, collaborated previously on two pieces for Sky's photographic-based installation ways to endure. 

Wednesday, January 24th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

As we continue our Between Bodies exploration, James Prochnik will be speaking to us about his own creative “between” spaces and how they became portals into different ways of seeing, relating, and caring. In his remarkable, magical, and intimate project Far Apart, James shows how he found both revelation and refuge in a nearby urban green space. Together we will explore what it means to use photography to traverse the most ordinary of places with openness and curiosity and how to attend to the unexpected narratives we find when we look closely.

Join us via Zoom on Wednesday, January 17th, 7 pm ET

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of excitement. We launched a new theme Between Bodies, introduced a new series of practice groups, and initiated a community-wide collaborative opportunity through Kinship Circle. This week we want to hear from you. Do you have any questions? What else do you need to support your practice? Curious about how to get your work featured in our online galleries? Are there artists, curators, or editors you would like us to invite to our community for talks or collaboration? If you are new to the Kinship, this is the perfect time to ask questions. We do love questions!

Wednesday, January 3rd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of 2024 call for engagement Between Bodies. Over the next year we will use photography as a powerful tool to unearth and flesh out the relationships that arise between a multitude of bodies. This Wednesday we will be sharing some exciting engagement opportunities including: gallery calls-for-submission, collaborative community-wide prompts via Kinship Circle, cross-disciplinary collaborative opportunities, and an inspiring line-up of guest artists and practice group facilitators for our winter season and beyond.

Wednesday, December 27th @ 7 pm ET

Join us for a spacious, heartful conversation and year-end celebration. Together we will mark the end of 2023 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!

Wednesday, December, 13th @ 7 PM ET via Zoom

This online event features a video walkthrough of the Listening to the Land exhibition with Erik Mace, alongside online conversations with the participating artists.

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

How do we find meaning and make beauty in Earth’s broken places? In this practice group circle back, Trebbe Johnson will be sharing the work of six Kinship members who used photography to focus on the relationship between what is broken and what is beautiful. Together we will explore what happens when a photographer brings their artistic consciousness to a place that is damaged, toxic, or in some way tragic.

Wednesday, November 29th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

For this multi-textured conversation, Kate Breakey will be sharing images from her retrospective book Painted Light which encompasses a quarter-century of prolific image-making that reveals the wide range of Kate’s creative explorations. Kate will be offering insight into her creative process and transformative journey alongside personal accounts of "the things that matter most" to her life as an artist–among them her fascination with classical European painting, her close connection to the world of science, and her heartfelt love of the natural world, which began during her childhood in rural Australia.

Wednesday, November 15th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a multifaceted conversation with Executive Editor, Ayşe Erginer and Art Director & Deputy Editor, Emily Wallace as they take us through Southern Cultures’ newest issue Snapshot: Climate. In more than 60 photographs, this moving and inspiring issue weaves images and words into a complex conversation that offers a deep, diverse, and embodied look at climate impacts across the South.

Wednesday, November 8th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic and exploratory conversation with Susan Harbage Page as she shares more than 15 years of meditations and explorations on the U.S.-Mexican border. As a socially engaged citizen Susan Harbage Page uses a variety of media including photography, performative interventions, sculpture, video, works on paper, and more. Here, her very embodied practice questions how race, nationality, socioeconomics, gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of our identities impact our bodies and our ability to access place, have our basic needs and rights met, and experience a sense of belonging, safety, and freedom.

Wednesday, November 1st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

As a photographer, Normand Rajotte has been continuously exploring the same forest in southeastern Quebec, Canada for over twenty years. Little by little, image after image, Rajotte has taken root in these woods, to the point of merging with them. Join us for an intimate conversation about the importance of feeling a place both visually and physically and how witnessing long-term changes can alter what we believe we recognize. Together we will explore the importance of embodied place-making and the unique power of creating bodies of work over long periods of time.

Wednesday, October 23rd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join Kinship as we launch Between Bodies our newest collaborative call-for-engagement . At Kinship we believe that learning to live artfully on a damaged planet requires big questions—and big circles—that welcome multiple and varied perspectives. We invite you to join us on our next creative journey as we explore the connections and communings that emerge between both human and more-than-human bodies. Your participation in this conversation will help us shape the resources, practice groups, and prompts that will guide our collaborative process. Please join us for this exciting next chapter.

Wednesday, October 18th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Ansley West Rivers as she takes us on a photographic journey across land and water. Ansley’s photographic artistry and multi-layered approach to the medium invites viewers to engage in a dialogue about our vital connection to the natural world and our proper place within it. Ansley’s sensitive work captures the beauty and wildness of the landscapes we inhabit, aiming to spark meaningful conversations about the fundamental sources of life itself.

Wednesday, October 11th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for an enlightening artist talk and conversations with Jeremy Dennis, a talented photographer and artist hailing from the Shinnecock Indian Nation. In this captivating presentation, Jeremy will delve into the powerful intersection of photography and activism, weaving together his indigenous heritage and artistic prowess to create thought-provoking works that challenge the status quo. Through his lens, he explores themes that resonate deeply with contemporary issues, shedding light on important social and environmental concerns. .