June 24th - September 9th
Meets every Tuesday, 12 - 2 PM EDT via Zoom for 12 sessions.

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. This 12-session summer group will be focused on elemental “fire”. The Celts celebrated the element of fire for its warmth, light, and transformative power. Together we will be exploring photography’s profound relationship to light and photography’s immense power to illuminate and catalyze inner and outer transformation. 

June 24th - July 29th

Meets every Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30 for 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 approach telling their own stories – reaching into 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

Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30pm for 8 weeks.

During this eight week practice group we 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

Meets every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm via Zoom for 5 weeks.

In this practice group, we will explore and tend to our own embodied flames before turning our fiery vision outward to explore the ways that 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 a process of alchemy and transformation. With a focus on self portraiture and embodied photographic processes, we will explore the relationships our bodies have with other bodies through the element of fire.