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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.

Listening to the Land: With Rapture and Astonishment Photography Reception

Photos from the Bartram Trail are on display in the library this winter; tonight we’ll celebrate and learn more about their work.

Listening to the Land: is a nine-month community celebration of the Bartram Trail, launching with the project-shaping photography exhibition With Rapture & Astonishment that highlights how eleven photographers inspired by William Bartram reimagined the landscape he encountered. A series of workshops, nature walks, and dynamic online conversations will follow, inviting photographers of all levels to join us in creating a community archive of the Bartram Trail that celebrates this region’s rich biodiversity while honoring each person’s unique way of seeing and responding to the land.

Please bring your friends and family, and join some of the photographers who’ve been taking a closer look at William Bartram’s Trail, and learn how you can get involved with the months-long project!

Listening to the Land : Contemplative Photography Awe Walk

Many of us yearn to create photographs full of feeling and emotion. Contemplative photography offers us a path. By learning to listen to the land and centering our practice in humility and wonder, we deepen our connection with the natural world and our photographs come alive with meaning and beauty.

This one-hour awe walk* will introduce you to simple contemplative photography practices. Starting at the Macon County Library, together we will take a leisurely photography walk on the Little Tennessee River Greenway. Photographers of all levels are invited (camera phones are welcome) and even seasoned practitioners should find value in this unique approach to the medium.

*An Awe Walk is a walk within a place of meaning and beauty to encounter something that amazes and transcends, whether big or small.

Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and contemplative artist. Her photography and public installations feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place, belonging, and ecological personhood. Since 2016, her work has primarily explored the power of beauty and its impact on our feelings of connection and kinship. Through the use of handmade cameras built in response to the land, she engages in deep conversation with wild and natural places. Susan lives in the southern Appalachian region, where she is the director of the Kinship Photography Collective.

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