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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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?”

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.

Six Weeks, starting August 24th, Thursdays 7 - 8:30 pm ET on Zoom

What happens when a photographer brings their artistic consciousness to a place that is damaged, toxic, or in some way tragic? In this practice groups we focus on the relationship between what is beautiful and what is broken. Together we will explore how impressions shape images and the contradictions (or balances) between the beautiful and the ugly, the broken and the whole.

Six Weeks, starting July 18th, Tuesday’s 6:30 - 8 pm ET on Zoom

During this six week practice group artist and photographer Eric William Carroll will walk you through his experience collaborating with archivists & archives and will offer up his advice and prompts to guide you through the process of collaborating with image archives. This practice group will be sure to touch on hot-button topics such as copyright, image quality, and transformation.

Tuesday’s, September 27th - November 1st, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET

During this six-week practice group, we will explore the intimate power of beauty and the wilder edges of the sublime through simple contemplative photography practices, personal sharing, and supportive group reflection. Photographers of all levels are welcome.

Thursday’s, September 29th - November 3rd, 6 pm - 9 pm ET

Are you struggling to reconcile the opposing extremes of our current climate reality in your photographic work?... The beauty of the natural world and the devastation that can result from human behavior. Let’s work through it all together in this supportive and immersive, critique-based conversation!

Monday’s, September 26th - October 24th, 12 pm - 1:30 pm ET

The old adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” doesn’t apply here: let’s break some things. Experimentation and iteration will help us understand our motivations behind our projects and how our work can take on new dimensions.

Monday’s, October 3rd - November 7th, 2022, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET

Join Neil Kramer for six weekly conversations that will explore how to combine text and images to tell a more complex story.

Sunday’s, October 16th - November 20th, 2022, 1 pm - 2:30 pm ET

Through thoughtful conversation and question asking, this six-week practice group will encourage us to sink into the mundane to find the magic that exists there.

Six Mondays: July 10, 17, 24, 31 and August 21, 28., 4-5:30 PM Eastern Time (NY)

You are invited to join artists Liz Titone and Morgain Bailey for a dynamic and experimental practice group this summer. This six-week online group (limited to 8 members) will playfully combine text with images while working in the physical world with prints. Liz and Morgain will offer five thought-provoking exercises, one per week, alongside short slideshows of examples from artists who have done work similar to the exercises. Participants can look forward to robust conversations about the creative process and helpful, friendly feedback on individual work. The last week, everyone will share the work they made over the course of the practice group. 

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