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Listening to the Land: Reimagining the Bartram Trail – Free Public Reception

Listening to the Land is a visual exploration of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail, or Bartram National Recreational Trail, that features photography and photo-based installations by thirty-two artists. The photographs featured in this resonant and varied exhibition celebrate the region’s rich biodiversity while honoring each person’s unique relationship with the land.

Drawing inspiration from Bartram’s Travels and the enduring wisdom of land-based and indigenous peoples of this region, photographers were invited to enter an intimate world where the landscape was alive and waiting to be met, understood, and listened to. This exhibition invites you to contemplate your own wild origins while visually reimagining a time when humans moved in respect, harmony, and co-creative kinship with the natural world.

GALLERY: Bunzl Gallery
ARTIST(S): Angela Martin, Anna Helgeson, Anna Norton, Anne Cannon, April McNiff, Barron Northrup, Beate Sass, Brent Martin, Casey Visco, Drew Jorgensen, Eric William Carroll, Erik Mace, Frances Bukovsky, Joanna Parkman, Kaoly Gutierrez, Kaye Savage, Laura Rudkin Miniot, Lesley Ann Price, Liliana Vitale, Lisa Stockton Howell, Lu Mann, Lynn “Cricket” Woodward, Lynne Buchanan, Mike Belleme, Sam Brown, Sandy Johnson, Sarah Morgan, Shawn McIntosh, Starlett Henderson, Susan Patrice, Virginie Drujon-Kippelen, Yvonne Dalschen
ON DISPLAY: September 9, 2023
THROUGH: January 6, 2024
MEDIUM(S): Photography

The Bascom: A center for the Visual Arts is located at:
323 Franklin Road
Highlands, NC 28741

TheBascom.org

This free public reception will offer an opportunity to meet the photographers and artists who have made this journey. The reception will be held on October 5, 2023 at 5pm.

The Shape of Summer: Wildflower Walk and Site-Specific Cyanotypes with Brent Martin & Eric William Carroll

Saturday, July 22nd, 10 am – 4 pm @ Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center in Franklin, NC
Hosted by: The Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy

Brent Martin will lead participants in a midsummer wildflower walk on the Little Tennessee River in the Cowee National Historic District. This easy walk will allow participants to collect a wide variety of plants and flowering parts for the creation of their own cyanotype, as well as learn about the incredible plant diversity in the Little Tennessee Watershed.

Following the wildflower walk, we’ll meet at the Cowee School where participants will be introduced to the cyanotype process by artist Eric William Carroll. Together we’ll create photograms (cameraless photographs) based on the specimens collected during the walk. Participants will be encouraged to creatively illuminate their clippings in multiple ways, showcasing the broad range of interpretations each plant can have. Some of the work created during the workshop will be displayed at the Bascom: Center for Visual Arts in an exhibition this fall. No experience is necessary and this workshop is appropriate for ages 10+. All materials will be provided. More photos at the bottom of this page.

More information can be found on the Kinship Photography website – https://kinship.photography/listening-to-the-land-workshops/shape-of-summer

Cost: $50 (scholarships are available)

Class size: 15 students – Spots are still available!

Cyanotype prints by Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll processing a cyanotype in a mountain creek

With Rapture & Astonishment: Photography Exhibit at the Circle Gallery

The Photography exhibition With Rapture & Astonishment is on view in the Circle Gallery at the University of Georgia from June 24th through September 12th. This exhibition takes its name from a quote by American artist, botanist and ethnographer William Bartram. Upon reaching the summit of Wayah Bald in the Nantahala National Forest, Bartram “beheld with rapture and astonishment, a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence….”

This dynamic exhibition shares the visual experiences of twelve artists as they traveled in Bartram’s footsteps. Each artist worked in the spirit of curiosity, exploration, and wonder while reimagining this well-traveled landscape. Featuring images from coastal Georgia to North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, With Rapture & Astonishment invites viewers to enter an intimate world where Bartram’s trail is alive and waiting to be met and listened to anew.

A public reception for With Rapture & Astonishment will be held Saturday, August 5th, from 3 – 6 p.m.

We hope to see you there!

The Circle Gallery is open M-F, 9 am – 5 pm.

Meet the artists Saturday, August 5th, 3 – 6 pm.

All the artists:
@beate_sass @annanortonphoto @ericwilliamcarroll @erik_mace @frances_bukovsky @yvonnedalschen @mikebelleme @susanpatrice @raythompsonjrphoto @alarkaexpeditions @susanmartin1613 @savage.kaye

All the community partners:
@ugaced
@blueridgebartram
@thebascom
@kinshipphotographycollective
@uga_art

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Reimagining the Bartram Trail Through Photography

Photography can help us see familiar and beloved places in a fresh new way. In the spirit of Bartram, we will explore how photography can be a powerful tool to awaken humility, wonder, and delight. Together we will deepen our connection with the natural world and our photographs so that our photographs can come alive with meaning and beauty.

This dynamic one-day workshop is co-facilitated by Susan Patrice and our own Executive Director, Brent Martin. Open to photographers of all levels (camera phones are welcome), even seasoned practitioners should find value in this unique approach to the medium. Participants will be offered the opportunity to have their photographs juried into the Listening to the Land: Reimagining the Bartram Trail community exhibition in Fall 2023.

Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and contemplative artist. Her photography and public installations focus primarily on the Appalachian landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place, belonging, and ecological personhood. She lives in Marshall, NC, where she is the director of Makers Circle and a co-founder of the Kinship Photography Collective.

March 25th, 10 am – 4 pm, Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center, Franklin NC

Please RSVP Below as this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Attendance to this workshop is based on a Sliding Scale Donation to support Kinship Photography Collective. Donations can be made the day of the event or by visiting Kinship’s website.

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