Managing Photographic Archives with Eric William Carroll
September 26th & October 24th, 2024
Thursdays 7 pm - 9 pm EDT (2 Weeks)
Whether it be your own personal photo library, a family collection, or an institutional archive, there are certain practices that will make the organization, navigation, and preservation of your archive easier for yourself & others to use. Join us for this mini-workshop to learn how.
Fiercely Attending to Place with Trebbe Johnson
September 3 - 24, 2024
Tuesdays 7 pm - 9 pm (5 Weeks)
In this practice/workshop, we explore the feelings of place. Together we open up the lenses of our imagination, our emotional body, and our profound relationships with all the locations that hold and are held by us—and then you, the photographers, open up the lenses of your cameras to this powerful, often mysterious, and always intimate world.
Connective Tissue with Kaye Savage
September 10 - October 22, 2024
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET ( 7 weeks)
This group will encourage participants to think about and beyond the physical boundaries of a subject that interests them. Each participant will come to this group with an item, creature or phenomenon as a focal point, and build your understanding of its (their) web of connections through questions, research and photographic practices.
Image and Response: Writing Ekphrastic Poetry with Meghan Sterling
September 25 - October 23, 2024
Wednesdays 12 - 1:30 pm ET (6 weeks)
Join poet Meghan Sterling to write ekphrastic poetry based on your own work. Each virtual session will be an hour and a half long and will start with a brief group exercise in ekphrasis, a discussion of craft and approaches, time for writing in response to an image of each participant’s choosing, and a block of time to share new writing in a judgment-free zone of curiosity and support.
Photographing Our Complicated Bodies with Frances Bukovsky
September 9 - October 14, 2024
Mondays 6 pm - 8 pm ET (6 weeks)
How can we use the camera to deepen our relationship with our own bodies through curiosity and attention? Can we use the camera to help us make space for the complexities of being alive? This practice group will explore self-portraiture as a way to honor complicated bodies, sick bodies, aging bodies, healing bodies, grieving bodies, changing bodies, marginalized bodies, gender diverse bodies, and human bodies.
Extracting Humans from the Landscape with Dale Rio
May 9th - June 13th, 2024
Thursday 5 - 8 pm EDT (6 weeks)
Human activity has impacted every corner of the globe, including remote areas where human beings aren’t physically present. Is it possible for contemporary photographers to tell visual stories about the natural world without referencing humanity; human history, activities, folklore, industry?
Pushing the Edges - Noticing Symbiosis with Frances Bukovsky
April 4th - May 9th 2024
Thursdays 6 pm - 8 pm ET (6 weeks)
How can we dissolve the concrete edges of what we consider individual bodies through photography? This practice group begins with us asking where the edges of our bodies, the edges of our relationships, and the edges of human and more-than-human, are seen and felt. Can a more relational perspective shift those edges, or even dissolve them? How does that change the way we photograph and engage with the bodies around us, the bodies that are us?
On Limits & Limitations with Erik Mace
March 5th - April 9th, 2024
Tuesdays 6 - 7:30 pm ET (6 weeks)
This practice group will explore what’s between us and the realization of our ideas—designed for the stir-crazy artists who feel like we’re consistently approximating resolution. This group will use photography as a starting point for discovery, but all forms of expression will be encouraged, including writing, sound, and mixed media. Weekly prompts and exercises will be offered as ways to push against the limits of our medium and our own limitations.
The Joy of Letting Go: Randomness & Collaboration with Eric William Carroll
January 25th - February 29th, 2024
Thursdays 7 - 9 pm ET (6-weeks)
Getting stuck in your head and spiraling about all the creative decisions one has to make in art can bring your practice to a standstill. This group is geared towards artists who would benefit from a little relief in the creative process–whether that be through collaboration or an injection of randomness.
Making Kin Through Photography with Susan Patrice
January 24th - February 28th, 2024 a
Wednesdays from 12 - 1:30 pm EST (6-weeks)
Many of us yearn to deepen our intimacy and connection with the natural world, and contemplative photography offers us a path. By reimagining photography as a relational medium, we can explore the subtle and often profound exchanges that occur between our bodies and the earth’s body. When practiced well, photography becomes a powerful tool for inspiring curiosity, humility, and wonder. Here, photography blossoms as a language of gesture and reciprocity, opening the doorway to new ways of seeing, knowing, and caring.
Reimagining Loss and Grief with Lyn Swett Miller
January 23rd - February 27th, 2024
Tuesdays 6 - 8:00 pm EST(6-weeks)
Is there a visual language for loss and grief? Can photography capture what is already lost or prepare us for future losses? During this practice group, we will explore loss in its many forms, whether of a person or place, a way of feeling or being. During this lightly facilitated six-week group, we will practice paying attention and dwelling in our own experiences of loss—offering us time to build community and a shared understanding of the many ways grief and loss gets into our bones.
A Complex Definition of a Body with Frances Bukovsky
January 25th - February 22nd, 2024
Thursday from 7 - 8:30 pm (5 weeks))
Where do our bodies end and other bodies begin? How does our understanding of the edges of our being influence us? A Complex Definition of a Body is a practice group that aims to add layers of complexity to our understanding of where we end and the world begins.
Photographing from the Senses with Kim Ort: An Asynchronous Practice Group
Starting Jan 14th, 2024
Asynchronous Practice Group on Kinship Circle-
We’ll begin this first season of Between Bodies with a 12-week, asynchronous exploration of what it means to photograph from the body, using all of your senses, open to the whole community. Beginning Sunday, January 14th, Kim Manley Ort will provide a reflection and prompts every two weeks in the Circle space. Together, we’ll explore the question, “What does it mean to photograph from the body?”
Pacing and Perseverance: Bodies of Work over the Long Haul with Anna G Norton and Eric William Carroll
Starts March 7th, 2023, meets monthly
First Thursday, 6 - 8 pm ET (9-months)
What defines a body of work? What holds it together? When is it complete? This monthly practice group will be led by Anna Gage Norton and Eric William Carroll.