Events

Back to The Future: The Avant-Garde is An Address. An Artist Talk by Ellen Carey (Online)

Crush & Pull with Flare, 2019. Courtesy Ellen Carey Collection, Jayne H. Baum Gallery (NYC, NY) and Galerie Miranda (Paris, FR)

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online artist talk with Ellen Carey -- an acclaimed lens-based artist, photographer, educator, independent scholar, and guest curator, as well as a participating artist in A Yellow Rose Project.

In this talk, Carey will explore photography as a visual art form at the forefront of the avant-garde, highlighting its capacity for disruption, experimentation, and transformation. With a career spanning over four decades, Carey

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Botanical Alchemy: A Weekend of Lumen Prints & Phytograms with Anne Eder

Join artist and educator Anne Eder for a captivating two-day spring workshop at the Griffin Museum, where art and nature converge. You'll learn to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographic images using contemporary cameraless techniques: lumen prints, and phytograms.

Harness the natural light sensitivity of plants to make striking, eco-friendly photographs -- no darkroom or toxic chemicals required. These poetic processes celebrate the organic beauty of impermanence, experimentation, and nature's hidden colors.

You'll explore:

-- Lumen Prints - surreal, color-shifting images

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Cristina Velásquez & Emily Sheffer in Conversation: Somos Animales Poéticos (Online)

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Daytime Section for Advanced Adobe Lightroom Classic with Sue Anne Hodges (Online)

In this workshop, we will go beyond the basics of the Adobe Lightroom Classic workflow. We will begin with a brief review of the Library and Develop Modules, along with key settings that impact performance and organization. From there, we will dive into problem-solving common challenges such as replacing or adding hard drives, moving files without losing links, and maximizing the use of Collections. We will also explore new tools for sorting and organizing, creating export presets, and more within the Library Module.

The Develop Module section will cover Lightroom Classic's newest features

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December Members' Mingle - Winter Solstice Edition!

It's our biggest month of the year for our members! It's time for Winter Solstice! We are so excited to welcome you all to a special members event before the public extravaganza.

This evening is all about you, our members, whose passion and support make everything we do possible. Our Members Mingle is about connecting with fellow photography enthusiasts, sharing your inspiration, and participating in the vibrant energy that makes the Griffin Museum such a special place. And what better way to celebrate you than being with other members and seeing the work of our Winter Solstice exhibition

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Exhibition Reception: Scott Offen, Grace

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host a reception for Grace, an exhibition by Scott Offen, presented in our satellite gallery, The Griffin @ WinCam. Join us in person on February 19 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM to celebrate the work.

In Grace, Offen collaborates with his partner to explore themes of aging, representation, and autonomy. The photographs move between intimate domestic interiors and mythic outdoor landscapes, offering a nuanced and deeply personal visual dialogue.

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FREE and open to the public!

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February | Coffee and Conversation - Member Networking Event

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 Sunday 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.

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Join us Sunday February 8th from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group. Engage with 8

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Founders Day! Celebrate the Griffin

On Saturday, September  13, the Griffin Museum invites you to celebrate our museum and Arthur  Griffin's birthday and legacy with a vibrant, immersive day of photography and community. Begin at 9 AM with a lively Coffee & Conversation hosted by Executive Director Crista  Dix. From 11 AM to 4 PM, have a portrait made at the Portrait Studio (prints courtesy of Digital Silver Imaging) and peruse the PhotoBook Fair, featuring independent publishers, artists' books, and Griffin Museum Press offerings. Celebrate our commitment to education from 5 to 8 PM with the Photography Atelier Reunion and

Frank Siteman | Artist Reception @ The Jenks

Join us for a celebration of Frank Siteman's exhibition at the Jenks center as part of our summer public art project, Vision(ary). Frank Siteman is a resident and chronicler of life in Winchester. His images soar above the streets to capture the light, movement and changes of the town. We are so grateful to partner with the Jenks Center of Winchester to bring this exhibition to the community.

© Frank Siteman

About Frank Siteman -

Frank Siteman was born in St. Louis in 1947. He attended Tufts University, where he majored in chemistry. Already immersed in photography, he shot