Transitional States: The Flow of Water as Inspiration with Dale Rio
Transitional States: The Flow of Water as Inspiration with Dale Rio
November 4 – December 2, 2025
Tuesdays 7:00 - 9:00pm ET for 5 weeks.
In this five-week practice group, participants 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? How do the transitions between these three states of being present a type of flow that can be adapted to art-making? All styles of work are welcome – from representational to abstract – as are people who are currently working with water as a subject and those who aren’t yet but are interested in exploring it.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation or $60. 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 $60 please don't hesitate to request a scholarship.
Dale Rio is a photographer whose work explores issues such as women’s rights and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Utilizing film and historic photographic processes, she employs “straight” photography to document the world around her and creates conceptual work in response to that world. Her images have been shown extensively in the U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand.
After receiving an MFA from Pratt Institute in 1996, Dale was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant. Upon her return to the States, she embarked upon a varied photographic career that has included serving as a master darkroom printer, teaching, curating, and working as a forensic photographer. She has attended residencies at Penland, MASS MoCA, Farmington Valley Arts Center, and Ars BioArctica, Finland.
