Join us via Zoom Wednesday, May 29th, 7 pm EDT

At Kinship, community engagement is rhizomatic, interconnected, and collaborative. Our calls-for-engagment, programs, and practice groups, are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. What would best supports your practice this summer? Please lend your voice and vision to this weeks dynamic conversation and help us shape our summer season.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over the past month, Kinship community members have been responding to three prompts adapted from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown’s book Coming Back to Life and recently featured on We Are The Great Turning podcast.

Join us as Kinship community members share the photographs and reflections that arose in response to the prompts.

Wednesday, May 15th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Many of us yearn to deepen our intimacy and connection with the world. Please join us as seven photographers explore and contemplate the role that photography can play as a tool for deep listening and intimate conversing.

Wednesday, May 8th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

The Goodall Visiting Fellows Program in Glendale, SC invites creative responses to our landscape in a former textile mill village. We’ll hear from the 2023-24 residents about their experiences at six natural, cultural, and historical reflection sites in the Preserve and neighboring village as we look at and listen to their work.

May 1st @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

Is there a visual language for loss and grief? Can photography capture what is already lost or prepare us for future losses? In this two-part practice group, we've been exploring our unique experiences with loss and grief by paying attention to light, abstraction, emotion and our embodied experiences. The deeper we go, the more we play.

Wednesday, April 24th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join artist Anna Rotty as she shares her recent work titled How We Hold the Sun where she explores the transformational and relational qualities of light and water in motion. Anna’s work invites movement through space and physical engagement, helping us slow down, pay attention, and shift perception, presenting imagery as physical prints, light-etched mirrors, or through motorized rippled water from the river, evaporating and projecting onto the ground.

April 17th @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

Where do our bodies end and other bodies begin? How does our understanding of the edges of our being influence us? Join us for a practice group circle back that will ponder these questions and more as participants share their explorations of what we consider bodies.

Wednesday, April 10th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

For his latest exhibition Fragmented Reality, Erik Mace mined his photography archive, seeing images only as raw data to be manipulated. His technique breaks down digital photographs to their binary code, using that code to render new images that are no longer explicitly tied to the original material. The pictures that result from the process are suggestive of landscapes, at once unsettling and hypnotizing, placing viewers in a broad set of alternate realities, each created from hundreds of small, compounding modifications to a single piece of information.

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.

Wednesday, March 27th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As we continue our exploration and inquiry into collaborative making, we hope you will join us for a conversation on collaborative bookmaking with Ramble Editions co-founders Kristen Welles Bartley and Erik Mace and collaborators Olga Ginzburg, Evan Simko-Bednarski, Anna Gage Norton, and Frances Bukovsky. Ramble Editions is a publishing collective rooted in experimentation through collaboration. Individual artists’ projects are unified by a quarterly theme, and books are made through a generous exchange of ideas, critique, and support throughout the publishing process.

Wednesday, March 20th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Do you have a hankering to collaborate with a writer or poet? Join us for an intimate conversation between the photographer Eliza Bell and poet Meghan Sterling as they share their images, poems and collaborative process. A year ago, photographer Eliza and Meghan started a creative project that was originally designed to be a gift to a friend. Every week Eliza would mail a photograph to Meghan in Maine, she would respond with a poem, and then mail both photo + poem to a another dear friend. Since, this touching gift has become a Substack and will eventually be a book.

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!