March 9th - April 6th, 2026
Mondays 12 - 1:30 pm ET (5 Weeks)

During this practice group, we will engage in Slow Looking to learn how to talk about what we see and listen for what emerges when others notice something we did not. Slow Looking invites us to stay present with friction, irritation, and uncertainty, which are vital parts of any creative process.

February 2nd - March 9th, 2026
Mondays 6:30-8:30 pm EST (6-Weeks)

In this practice group, we will take objects, whether a beloved heirloom or a favorite tchotchke, for walks, exploring the way light, texture, and place influence our connections not just to the objects, but more fundamentally to ourselves. Are the spirits of our objects inviting us in or asking us to move on? 

January 15 - February 19, 2026
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm EST (6 Weeks)

Drawing on disability and ecological studies, practice group participants will consider how deep rest can be a creative and transmutative force. Using self-portraiture, embodied photographic practices, and/or transforming currently existing work with intention and care, we will use our cameras to build relationships with the earthen bodies that surround us.

January 27th - March 3rd, 2026
Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm EST (6 Weeks)

In this practice group, participants will use the rock cycle and plate tectonics as inspiration for their practice. Melting and crystallizing, slow flow, erosion, sedimentation, and burial. Coming together, splitting apart, abrading. How do our internal processes and external experiences meet in our photographs?

February 3rd - March 3rd, 2026
Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm EST (5 weeks)

In this practice group, participants will explore how Earth can be perceived across different time scales and how we relate to the vast span of time that encompasses Earth's history. Do we - or should we - view life as linear or cyclical or something else entirely?

October 21st to November 25th, 2025
Weekly invitations are posted on Kinship Circle each Thursday.

Through this Kinship Circle invitation, we will examine our favourite works of artists who have spoken for water, what success in this field could look like and how it has been achieved. As an asynchronous practice gathering, Jon will lead with examples and prompts and facilitate the conversation throughout the time between new activities.

October 6 - November 24, 2025
Mondays 6:30 - 8:30 pm EST (8 Weeks)

During this practice group, we will consider these guiding questions: In what ways does the flow of water around us and within us make us feel alive? In what ways might particular objects offer portals to elemental states of mind and being? In the process of exploring the idea of aliveness, we will consider how photography can help us make sense of the unexpected life-forces contained within seemingly inanimate things.

October 9 - November 13
Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm EST (6 Weeks)

Together, we will explore water through self-portraiture and embodied photography practices, while asking questions intended to expand and shift our creative practice. We will explore water’s capacity to aid transformation and transition, to hold grief, and the relationship between our own bodies and the bodies of water we live with.

November 4– December 2, 2026
Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm EST for 5 weeks.

In this practice group, we will explore water as photographic subject matter both literally and metaphorically. Water is unique in that it exists in solid, liquid, and gaseous states. How does this fluidity manifest in natural and human-constructed environments, and how can it be applied to how we live our lives as artists?

July 1st - August 5th, 2025
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 (6 Weeks)

Over the course of this practice group, we will be building a metaphorical campfire and telling stories around it through photography. We will ask ourselves: what is the fuel for our fire? What lights the spark? Participants will find new ways to tell their own stories – reaching into their memories and capturing their perspectives in the moment. We’ll explore both single- and multiple-image approaches and play with incorporating text as interest warrants.

July 1 - August 19, 2025
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 pm (8 weeks)

This practice group will explore our relationship to elemental fire as experienced in the things that surround us. Fire, as it exists within bodies, carries ancient energy. How is it that some objects literally change the energy in a room? In what ways might particular objects offer portals to elemental states of mind and being?

July 3 - July 31, 2025
Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm (5 Weeks)

In this practice group, we will tend to our own embodied flames before turning our fiery vision outward to explore how this element encourages us to relate to others. We will explore care as a form of nurturing fire, attention as an illuminating force, and fire as an alchemical process of transformation.

April 20 - May 25th, 2025
Weekly invitations are posted on Kinship Circle.

For this online Kinship Circle invitation, we will focus on movement and exchange through the lens of self, setting, and time. In a series of prompts, participants will be invited to take a walk while noticing aspects of both their bodies and their environments. The prompts will come from the growing literature on Forest Bathing and Walking Art.

April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2026
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 PM (wth short breaks for the holidays)

The Elemental Year draws creative inspiration from land-based cultures—where time moves in rhythm with the Earth and travels in circles and cycles. During this practice group, we will utilize the power of embodied seasonal rituals, contemplative practices, and deep reflection to explore our fundamental relationship to our elemental kin.

April 24 - May 22, 2025
Thursdays 12 - 2 PM EDT (5 Weeks)

With a focus on self-portraiture and embodied photography practices, we will begin by exploring the way we experience air in our bodies—what happens when we draw attention to the exchange between our bodies and air? Through conversation and experimentation, we will be invited to shift our lenses to the exchanges that occur through our shared experiences of air.

April 15 - May 20, 2025
Tuesdays from 12:30 pm - 2:30 EST (6 Weeks)

This practice group will explore our relationship to elemental air as experienced in the things that surround us. Air, as it exists between bodies, carries ancient energy. How is it that some objects literally change the energy in a room? In what ways might particular objects offer portals to elemental states of mind and being?