Cultivating the Daily Frame with Anna Norton
Cultivating the Daily Frame with Anna Gage Norton
April 22 - May 27, 2025
Meets every Tuesday 6:00 - 7:30 PM via Zoom for 6 weeks.
Group size: 6
Cultivating the Daily Frame is a small, supportive photography practice group designed to help participants build and sustain a consistent daily photography habit. Recognizing that creative growth often stems from regular engagement, this group will provide a framework for sharing, inspiration, and accountability, fostering a more intentional and fulfilling photographic practice by building a consistent daily practice.
This peer-led group will emphasize shared experiences and mutual encouragement rather than formal instruction. Each weekly session will provide a space for participants to:
Share: Briefly present images created during the previous week, focusing on their personal intentions, challenges, and discoveries.
Discuss: Engage in open and supportive dialogue about each other's work, offering constructive feedback and insights.
Inspire: Share resources, artists, or prompts that have been personally motivating or thought-provoking.
Connect: Build a supportive network of fellow photographers committed to their creative growth.
Group Size: Maximum of 6 participants to ensure everyone has ample time to share and receive feedback.
Ideal Participants: This group is ideal for individuals who:
Desire to establish or strengthen a daily photography habit.
May have a specific photography project in mind, an ongoing body of work, or simply a desire to create more regularly.
Are looking for a supportive and encouraging environment to share their work and receive constructive feedback.
Are comfortable with a less instructor-led, more collaborative group dynamic.
Benefits of Participation:
Increased Consistency: The group provides accountability and motivation to shoot regularly.
Creative Growth: Regular practice and feedback will help participants refine their vision and skills.
New Perspectives: Exposure to the work and insights of others will broaden creative horizons.
Supportive Community: Connecting with like-minded individuals fosters a sense of belonging and encouragement.
Project Development: The consistent practice and feedback can provide valuable momentum for personal photography projects.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation or $50. The average contribution for a six-week practice group is $125. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $50 please don't hesitate to request a scholarship.
Anna Gage Norton is a native of South Georgia and received her MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2005. Previously, Norton completed the Resident Program at Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media) and her BA in anthropology from Tulane University. Norton’s work deals with her relationship to place and centers around questions of historical and geological time, the animate and inanimate, permanence and transience. She exhibits in solo and group shows regionally and throughout the US, including a site-specific video installation, Living Space, at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. A selection of her video stills is published in Elements of Photography by Angela L Faris-Belt, and her video work is published in Rebekah Modrak’s Reframing Photography with companion website as well as Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Her most recent documentary photography project is featured in Aint-Bad Magazine, Murze Magazine and Oxford American Magazine’s “Eyes on the South,” and she is a 2021 Puffin Grant recipient. After a decade of teaching undergraduate and high school level photography in the mid-Atlantic region, Norton has returned to the South and now lives in Highlands, North Carolina where she continues her photography and videography for her personal and professional work.
Anna Gage Norton
Anna Gage Norton
Anna Gage Norton
