Speaking For Water with Jon Stuart
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.
Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning with Lyn Swett Miller
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.
Bodies Connected by Water with Frances Bukovsky
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.
Transitional States: The Flow of Water as Inspiration with Dale Rio
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?