Rhythm & Ritual: marking time through daily ritual
Rhythm & Ritual, marking time through daily ritual
Join us via Zoom - Wednesday, September 16th, at 7 pm EDT
How can ritual become a portal through which one can access deep time, inhabited time, and time-out-of time simultaneously? Join the Rhythm & Ritual practice group cohort for a mid-journey circle back as they share images and reflections on how ritual practices and seasonal rhythms have shaped and enhanced their photography.
Photographers include:
Carmina Eliason @carminaeliason
Olivia Fulmer @ofulmer58
Susan Preston @susanprestonstudio
Sarea Shea-Roberto @mightiess
Lynn (Cricket) Woodward @bitsywonders
Megan Driving Hawk @MDrivingHawkk00
Together, we will question: What does it mean to say the land and our bodies hold memory? How do we access ancestral memory that lives in the body? Can the act of making a photograph be sacred?
Megan Driving Hawk (facilitator) is an artist/mother/educator using habits of the heart to facilitate connection, healing, and learning through photography, poetry, & traditional needlework. Creatively, she researches collective healing, trauma, memory, and time. Academically, she researches culturally responsive fine arts education. She earned a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Arizona State University, an MEd in Secondary Education with K-12 Art certification from ASU, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Hartford.
Her artwork has been reviewed, collected, and exhibited numerous times throughout the present-day U.S. and internationally, including the ASU Art Museum and the Tempe Public Works Collection. She has been invited as a guest lecturer, workshop facilitator, and panelist for various events at the national, state, & local levels. Driving Hawk has received numerous honors and awards, including honorable mention in the 2020 Women Photographing Women category of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2023 artist-in-residence at the Tempe Center for the Arts, 2023 Arizona Art Educator of the Year, and 2025 Agent of Change in Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion.
Driving Hawk currently lives in the Sonoran Desert on O’odham, Yavapai, Akimel O’odham (Upper Pima) and Hohokam lands (present-day Phoenix, Arizona). She is a white wife & mother of two in a Lakȟóta Thiwáhe. Her life is a residency in Matrescence & outdoor learning through Indigenous ways of knowing.
