Events

Join us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Saturday morning with Crista Dix, Griffin Museum's Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.

© Cynthia W. Smith© Robert Atkins© Stephen Schmidt

Join us Saturday April 18th from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group. Engage

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host a panel discussion for the exhibition Labor Daily | American Working Class. Please join us in-person to hear from the artists Carl Corey, Chris Aluka Berry, Julie Dermansky, Terry Evans, Daniel Overturf, Xavier Tavera, and Inna Valin, who will share with us the creative process behind their works.

© Carl Corey© Chris Aluka Berry© Inna Valin© Daniel Overturf© Terry EvansJulie Dermansky© Xavier Tavera

Panel Fee: FREE for members (RSVP required) / $10 for non-members. If you can, please consider donating -- your support helps the Griffin Museum champion

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an artist panel for the exhibition Manifest Destiny. Please join us in-person to hear from the artists Craig Easton, Drew Leventhal, Lisa Elmaleh, Rich Frishman, and Vicky Sambunaris, who will share with us the creative process behind their works.

The artist panel will be followed by a reception for the exhibition.

About the artists:

Craig Easton's work is deeply rooted in the documentary tradition. He shoots long-term documentary projects exploring issues around social policy, identity, culture and community. Known for his intimate

The Griffin Museum is excited to host a reception celebrating our presentation of the traveling exhibition, A Yellow Rose Project.

Join us in person at the Griffin Museum in Winchester to celebrate all the amazing work from over 100 artists in this exhibition.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

© Marky Kauffmann© Frances Denny

Created by Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths, A Yellow Rose Project is a photographic collaboration of responses, reflections, and reactions to the 19th Amendment from over one hundred women across the United States.

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host a reception for the exhibition Manifest Destiny. Join us in-person on Saturday, January 24 to celebrate the artists Austin Bryant, Scott Connaroe, Craig Easton, Lisa Elmaleh, Rich Frishman, Drew Lewental, Vicky Sambunaris, and John Willis.

Manifest Destiny is part of a broader, year-long series of exhibitions titled State of Our Union. The four exhibitions presented in 2026 examine the United States as it celebrates its 250th anniversary--through its landscape, its culture, and its people.

© Vicky Sambunaris© Craig Easton
© Rich Frishman
© Drew

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an artist reception to celebrate the winners and finalists of the 2025 Richards Family Prize and Arnold Newman Prize, whose works are on view from December 5, 2025 to January 4, 2026.

Join us in person at the museum to celebrate artists Izabella Demavlys, C. Rose Smith, Debmalya Choudhuri, and Nzingah Oyo.

This event if FREE and open to the public.

© C. Rose Smith© Debmalya Choudhuri© Nzingah Oyo© Izabella Demavlys

Join us in person on Saturday, December 6 as The Griffin Museum is excited to host a reception celebrating the artists in our show Winter Solstice 2025. This reception offers a chance to meet the our member artists, hear their stories, and connect with our photo community.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

© Susan Collins© Michael Lynch© Suzanne Williamson© Frau Edixa© Guanhua Yao

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an in-person reception for the exhibition Rotan Switch by Lisa McCord. Please join us to celebrate the artist and the exhibition, on view in our Griffin Library Gallery July 31 - September 6, 2026.

© Lisa McCord© Lisa McCord© Lisa McCord

In Rotan Switch, Lisa McCord documents life on her grandparents' cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community's central landmark - the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it has not been used in

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an in-person reception for the exhibition The Persistence of Memories by Lua Kobayashi. Please join us to celebrate the artist and the exhibition, on view in our Griffin Library Gallery September 11 - October 25, 2026.

The Persistence of Memories comes from Lua's conversations with Japanese-Americans of the greater Boston area, during which she was entrusted with memorabilia of a shared historical heritage and gifts for the future generation. These personal and significant objects currently inhabit the museum's Griffin Gallery in the form of projections

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an artist reception for the exhibition TLC. Please join us in-person to celebrate the artists and the exhibition curated by Delphine Sims, assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Family Portrait, © Star MontanaPaula, Martha with Daughter(s), © Star MontanaLittle Paula and Sisters 1940s© Star MontanaLarge East LA Landscape, © Charles LeeSo You Wanna Be a Bull Rider?, © Charles LeeUntitled, © Charles LeeUntitled, © Charles LeeCreole Cowboy, © Charles LeeElm Street, © Harlan BozemanBridge Towards