STUDIO TIME WITH KELLI CONNELL

Back by popular demand! Dedicate time to your studio practice this April with Kelli Connell and special guests Jess T. Dugan, lee rae walsh, and Natalie Krick. STUDIO TIME is an online gathering space for artists, photographers, and writers looking to work independently within a supportive creative community.

Whether you’re editing images, printing new work, researching ideas for your next project, or writing text for a photobook, memoir, or poetry collection, this accountability clud offers structure, support, and practical strategies to help you meet your goals.

Open to artists at all stages of their studio practice, sessions include:

• Guided goal setting

• Writing and reflection prompts

• Dedicated studio work sessions

• Opportunities for sharing and feedback

• Insight into the studio practices of established working artists, photographers, and writers

The group will meet for 2 hours/day, 4 days/week, for three weeks (12 sessions total). It's not mandatory to attend all 12—join as your schedule allows. During each Thursday session, we will be joined by the following special guests: Jess T. Dugan on 4/9, lee rae walsh on 4/16, and Natalie Krick on 4/23.

Daily Schedule

9 AM CT: Log-in, hellos

9:05 AM: Writing prompt based on studio practice 

9:15 AM: Cameras off

10:30 AM: Cameras on, work share, inspiration 

11 AM CT: Adjourn

About the Instructor

Kelli Connell’s work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the J Paul Getty Museum among others. Recent publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture & Center for Creative Photography), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture) and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and The Center for Creative Photography.

Guest Bios

lee rae walsh (b. 1990, they/them) is an artist-poet-photographer-teacher-researcher-and-friend. they received their mfa from Columbia College Chicago in 2016 and have facilitated  independent spaces for study, experimental performances, small-scale publishing and collaboration for over ten years. They have been published in Worms Magazine (issue 7: artists that write and writers that art), The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening, vol.2, and Sissy Anarchy...previously exhibiting work at spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Luminary, and Hyde Park Arts Center. They currently run Sunday School, a platform that celebrates alternative forms of pedagogy, calling on a cabinet of queer angels as guides. After many years based in Chicago, lee is currently writing and making in Marfa, Tx.

Natalie Krick (b. 1986 Portland Oregon) is a Seattle based interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the medium of photography, visual perception and pleasure through a feminist lens. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. In 2017 her first monograph Natural Deceptions was published by Skylark Editions and Krick was awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize. Krick’s work has recently been exhibited at The Frye Art Museum, LACMA, Silver Eye Center for Photography, SF Camerawork, The Museum of Contemporary Photography and Aperture Foundation.

Krick is a full time lecturer in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the School of Art + Art History + Design at University of Washington. She is also part of a collaborative team with Kelli Connell called o_ Man which reimagines Edward Steichen’s oeuvre and his subsequent influence on the photographic medium and the history of photography.

Jess T. Dugan (American, b. 1986) is an artist and writer whose work explores the complexities of personhood, relationships, desire, love, and family through photography, film, writing, and drawing. Their work is informed by their own life experiences, including their identity as a queer and nonbinary person, and reflects a deep belief in the importance of representation and the transformative power of storytelling.  

Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 70 museums. Their books include Love Pictures, a survey book made in collaboration with Charlotte Cotton (Radius Books, 2026), Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022), To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) and Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015).  They are the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an ICP Infinity Award, and were selected by the Obama White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change.  They currently live and work in St. Louis, MO.