Community

The Griffin is excited to celebrate the work of artists from Photography Atelier 39 and Francisco Gonlazez Camacho for his solo exhibition, Reverting. Both on view from August 21st to September 28th, 2025.

Join us in person from 4 to 6pm for a special artist reception at the Griffin Museum!

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host a reception for the exhibition Labor Daily | American Working Class. Join us in person on Friday, April 17th to celebrate the artists Carl Corey, Chris Aluka Barry, Daniel Overturf, Inna Valin, Julie Dermansky, Terry Evans, and Xavier Tavera.

Labor Daily 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.

© Carl Corey© Chris Aluka Berry© Julie Dermansky© Terry Evans©

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 artist reception for the exhibition Cheryl Clegg: The Endangered Lobstermen, on view at our satellite gallery in WinCam (Winchester Community Access and Media). Join us on Thursday, March 26 at WinCam to celebrate the exhibition and meet the artist!

© Cheryl Clegg© Cheryl Clegg© Cheryl Clegg© Cheryl Clegg

About the artist

Cheryl Clegg grew up in NJ, attended the Rochester Institute of Technology, receiving a BFA in Photographic Illustration and moved to Boston to start her commercial photography career. Fast forward over 30 years

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host a reception celebrating the artists featured in the exhibition Gathering Place | A Family Album. Join us in person at Jenks Center to celebrate the talented artists!

On view at the Jenks Center from October 1 to January 3, 2026, the exhibition brings together photographic works that celebrate the intimate spaces and shared traditions that define family--chosen or inherited--through still-lifes, portraits, domestic scenes, or elsewhere.

© Shea Baasch© Talya Arbisser© Isaac Glimka

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an artist reception at Jenks Center to celebrate the exhibition Landscapes of Wonder: National Parks.

Landscape of Wonder offers a view into the wilderness and the vast expanse of the American landscape. The exhibition celebrates the land through the eyes of thirty-six photographers, each offering a distinct perspective on our shared environment. Together, their works form a visual conversation about scale, permanence and change, solitude and connection. The photographs ask us not only to look, but to pause--to consider our relationship with the earth

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 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