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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

The Griffin Museum is pleased to have Francisco Gonzalez Camacho present an online artist talk on the work in his solo exhibition, Reverting.

Join us in the Griffin Zoom Room on for this special conversation celebrating the artist and the exhibition!

Reverting reflects upon the profound material connection between the landscape and image-making, exploring environmental issues and the objectification of nature in Iceland.

Developed in Reykjavík with the SIM artist-in-residence program, this project merges photography and printmaking through material experimentation, seeking

Please join us in-person for an artist talk and book signing with Lisa McCord for her exhibition Rotan Switch, on view in our Griffin Library Gallery July 31 - September 6, 2026.

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 years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of racism and

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host and artist talk and reception for Matilde Simas's exhibition From Shadows to Light: A Global Journey Through the Aftermath of Trafficking, on view July 1 - September 27, 2026.

Please join us in-person on Saturday July 18th in downtown Boston at the Griffin @ Lafayette City Center to hear from the artist, followed by a reception to celebrate the exhibition.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy's, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host and artist talk and reception for Preston Gannaway's exhibition Remember Me, on view July 31 - September 6, 2026. Please join us in-person to hear from the artist, followed by a reception to celebrate the exhibition.

In Remember Me, Preston Gannaway photographs a New Hampshire boy, EJ, for over 20 years, following the death of his mother at the age of 4. The interplay of everyday details, landscapes and portraits work together to create an intimate longitudinal essay on time, loss and mortality.

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The Griffin Museum is pleased to host and artist talk and reception for Lua Kobayashi's exhibition The Persistence of Memories, on view September 11 - October 25, 2026. Please join for a special conversation with Lua, Cummings Resident, about her new installation.

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

Join us online on August 4 at 6:30 pm ET to meet our new instructor, Mary Beth Meehan, learn more about the newly redesigned Photography Atelier II program, and ask any questions you may have!

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The Griffin Museum and Mary Beth Meehan are pleased to offer this advanced project development program for artists seeking to bring an existing body of work to the next level.

This advanced Atelier II is designed for intermediate to advanced photographers who already have a project in motion--an idea and passion they have begun to photograph--but who

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.

© Audrey Gottlieb© Paul Gagnon© Silke Hase© Robert Atkins

Join us Sunday August 16th from 9.30am-12.30pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group

Join us ONLINE 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.

© Robert Atkins© Paul Gagnon© Sheri Lynn Behr© Nadine Levin

Join us Sunday August 9th from 11.30am-1.30pm for our round table peer-run portfolio