Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join kinship members Chris Warner-Carey and Lyn Swett Miller for this introduction to the first element, Air, in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemental life. They will share what they have learned from other photographers' relationships to air, as well as how they have come to more deeply understand this element through their work. Chris and Lyn will also share brief summaries of this spring’s practice groups in preparation for our more in-depth practice information session on April 9th 

Wednesday, March 26th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us this Wednesday for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of our newest call for engagement Elementals. In this latest “Call,” Kinship invites photographers to explore their relationship with air, fire, water, and earth. Drawing on the Elementals book series from The Center for Humans & Nature.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 19th, 7 pm EDT

Over the past year, we have come together to explore embodied photographic practices that are grounded in the senses, shared conversations between bodies, noticed and deepened the relationships that connect all bodies. Join us in a celebration of the work created by the Kinship community around the Between Bodies theme. During this gathering, we will also be introducing our new call, Elementals, which we will be unfolding over the coming weeks.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 12th, 7 pm EDT

Photography allows us to search for meaning and celebrate the mysticism of the mundane. From the ordinary to the abstract, we find in our images both beauty and tension.  Join Alli Harper and Kaye Savage as they share photographs and reflections inspired by the following questions: How can we find metaphor in the journeys of sediment, from its origin in rock to its settling as mud and the creatures that inhabit it? How can our photographic practice help us navigate chaos by claiming beauty? Can the personal become universal through our unique practices, as photography takes us where words cannot?

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 5th, 7 pm EST

Join Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta for a Between Bodies inspired conversation about transience and presence. In Julie Williams Dixon’s collection Between transience and eternity: one afternoon at the river, she pondered the transience of her physical body in juxtaposition to ancient surroundings. In Paul Wanta’s ongoing project In This Place he celebrates the intimate, familiar, and fleeting landscapes near his home in Wendell, Massachusetts.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 26th, 7 pm ET

Join Eliza Bell Sweizbach and Kaoly Gutierrez for a conversation about intimacy, vulnerability, and photography between people. Both Eliza’s project, Gravida, and Kaoly’s project I’m Sorry. Forgive Me. Thank You. I Love You, enter the realm of the vulnerable and explore the connections between us. Together we will contemplate how photography can deepen our connections to each other, and what changes in us when we make vulnerable images.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 19th, 7 pm ET

Join Rosie Villano and their mother Ann as they reflect on their ongoing inter-generational creative conversation about perception, people and the places they love. Using their “Between Bodies” portfolios Unearthed and Common Ground as a starting place, they will share their experiences together from a beloved house in Maine and their explorations in Mexico.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 12th, 7 pm ET

In what ways do your photographs help you pay your love forward into the world? Is creative attention a form of love? Can a photograph be a love letter? A year ago, the Kinship community gathered together to share images and stories in response to these questions. We feel called to return to these questions now more than ever. Join us for a community show & share that reflects on our creative attention and affection.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 5th, 7 pm ET

Join Erik Mace as he discusses his recently published photo essay, Fabian and Rose. Begun in 2019, his essay in Southern Cultures features photography and writing based on returning to his grandparents’ house in Missouri for the first time in thirty years. The essay navigates the complexities of family history, memory, and the elusive nature of truth, revealing the intimate details and textures of a home that held untold, or perhaps unknowable, stories.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 29th, 7 pm ET

Join us for a portfolio share with Frances Bukovsky of their in-process body of work, A Cherished Embrace of Iron and Water. This body of work asks how we can combine archival research and materials with an embodied photographic practice to explore the past, present, and potential future of the relationships that shape place. This conversation will be facillitated by Kaye Savage.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 22nd, 7 pm ET

Please join us for and inspiring conversation with folks from the National Parks Arts Foundation and the Shenandoah National Park Artist in Residence program. Learn about upcoming opportunities, open calls for applications, insights on what makes a great application, and how residencies can lead to additional opportunities like artist-run community workshops and museum exhibitions.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 15th , 7 pm ET

At Kinship, our weekly artist talks, calls for engagement, practice groups, and curated galleries are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. We are interested in learning more about what is working for you and what kinds of programs, themes, exhibitions and calls for engagement would best support your practice this year. Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our 2025 programming.

Wednesday, January 1st @ 7 pm ET

Join us for a spacious conversation and New Year’s Day community show & share. Together we will mark the end of 2024 and the start of 2025 with images and stories. We want to hear about your inner and outer explorations, questions, triumphs, challenges, and inspirations - and your creative intentions for the coming year. Everyone is invited to share work.

Wednesday, November 27th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Convergence, Parker J Pfister’s current exhibition, is guided by curiosity, wonder, time, and life experiences. Sending a probe into his vast archive of photographs, over 3 decades worth, Parker Pfister discovers deeper meanings and purpose in his work. Photographic prints are combined in a hands-on tactile way, creating new narratives and questions. A once straightforward photograph is now a complex conversation.

Wednesday, November 20th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Please gather with us in the "tender light" of community as we share photographs from a time in our lives when we were struggling and the gentle light of love, beauty, or wholeness revealed itself to us through our photographic practice. Together we will explore the ways that photography can be a light, even, and sometimes especially, in darker moments.

Wednesday, November 13th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over the course of seven years, Tina Freeman photographed the Louisiana wetlands and Arctic and Antarctic glaciers. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from each place in a series of diptychs that function as little stories about climate change, ecological balance, and the connectedness of things across time and space. The large, color photographs in Lamentations make plain the crucial, threatening, and global dialogue between water in two physical states.

Wednesday, October 30th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

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 began with practicing self-directed deep attention and curiosity and ultimately considered the ways that our relationship and understanding of our own bodies influence the ways that we hold relationships between bodies.

Wednesday, October 23rd @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a portfolio share with Lyn Swett Miller. This tender body of work questions the essence of reciprocity between humans and the land while exploring the ways in which a ‘green’ death can reveal the beauty of our relationship between the human body and the earth’s body. Together we will explore whether photography can help us find redemption and joy in previously unmentionable settings.

Wednesday, October 16th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

It is time to weave our Between Bodies explorations into galleries, featured projects, exbhibitions, and collaborative shenanigans. Join us this Wednesday as we walk you through the submission process. Together we will begin building the schedule for community sharing, online galleries, and upcoming exhibitions.

Wednesday, October 9th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Fall is here, and it is time to gather our community together to look for unique ways to weave our Between Bodies explorations and photographs into featured galleries, collaborative calls, and exhibitions. Do you have work in process that would be a good fit for our featured artist gallery? Would you like to curate a collection of work? Are there curators or editors you would like us to invite to our community to help interpret the work we have created? Please join us!