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About the Griffin

The Griffin Museum of Photography is a nonprofit organization dedicated solely to the art of photography. Through our many exhibitions, programs and lectures, we strive to encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of the visual, emotional and social impact of photographic art. As an institution, we are committed to insuring that our mindset, our practice, our outreach, our programming and our exhibitions set a framework with priorities for building programs and exhibitions that consider diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion through our mission that is centered around the photograph.

At the Griffin Museum, you will find exhibitions from well-known photographers to those emerging on the scene that explore important themes and thought-provoking ideas. All of our exhibitions and programs are designed to encourage the passionate exploration of the art of photography. We are considered an epicenter for photography and have a reputation as a “taste maker” for an international photographic community.

There are five components we consider to gauge our effectiveness as museum. We acknowledge that as art museum professionals, we at the Griffin Museum:
are committed to working personally to face our own unconscious bias.
are committed that debate on definitions will not get in the way of our genuine efforts.
that inclusion is central to our being effective and central to our sustainability as a museum.
that systemic change is vital to our long-term and genuine progress as a museum.
that inclusive leadership is essential at all levels of our organization.

About Arthur Griffin

Arthur Griffin was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 12, 1903. Originally trained to be an illustrator, in 1929 he picked up his first camera — a second-hand folding Brownie — and thus began a passion that would last a lifetime.

By the mid-1930’s, Arthur Griffin had become the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post — a two-page layout on New England.

About the Griffin Museum of Photography

Opened in 1992, as a private foundation, the Griffin Museum was incorporated as a a 501 (c)(3) public charity May 19, 2000. The Griffin is the embodiment of founder Arthur Griffin’s passion — to promote an appreciation of photographic art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional, and social impact. Arthur’s goal was to share with visitors his enthusiasm for a medium that is diverse, imaginative and informative. We are committed to continuing to encourage Arthur’s vision through the works we exhibit, the programs we offer, the artists we encourage and through Arthur’s own work.

Today, the Griffin Museum houses three galleries, and four satellite galleries in the Greater Boston area dedicated solely to the exhibition of photographic arts. Located on Judkins Pond, the Griffin Museum is a prime spot for viewing our area wildlife in a serene setting. With its large outside terrace made possible by donations by the Winchester Rotary, Griffin Foundation, local banks and corporations and individual donors, the Griffin is a delightful community landmark in which to relax, read, have conversation, drink morning coffee, birdwatch, sketch or photograph. Find your reasons to visit the grounds and while there, come inside.

The Griffin Galleries

The Main Gallery
The largest of our three galleries, the Main Gallery is a showcase for rotating exhibitions from some of the world’s leading photographers. We take pride in showing prestigious bodies of work from diverse photographic genres, ranging from photojournalism to contemporary art, and historical to social commentary. Our exhibitions have featured the work of such photographic luminaries as Edward Weston, Sebastião Salgado, Teenie Harris and Edward Curtis, as well as contemporary iconoclast Jan Staller and celebrity photographer Peggy Sirota. We also take great pride in producing exhibitions constructed specifically by contemporary photographers under the umbrella of an idea that informs and educates through the photograph.

The Griffin Gallery and the Atelier Gallery
At the Griffin Museum, we are constantly reviewing works by new photographers with an eye toward capturing who the next great artist will be. Our Atelier and Griffin Gallery is reserved specifically for showcasing these artists, providing a rare opportunity to view their work before they are widely known.

Satellite Galleries

The Griffin Museum also has two satellite galleries located in surrounding towns, Lafayette City Center Passageway in Boston Downtown Crossing and the Griffin @ WinCAM on Swanton Street in Winchester at Winchester Community Access and Media. Past exhibition spaces include the Greater Boston Stage Company (formerly called the Stoneham Theatre and 530 Harrison in the South End at the Griffin @ SoWa.

See our links for current exhibits details. We also have brought THE FENCE to Boston over the past years and now the Photoville FENCE comes to Winchester. THE FENCE is the largest public installation of photography in North America, located in 8 cities which are Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, Calgary, Denver, Houston, Sarasota and Seattle reaching over 8 million visitors annually.

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Staff/Board

  • Paula Tognarelli
  • Crista Dix
  • Meg Birnbaum
  • Carmen Howell
  • Sue D'Arcy Fuller

Interns

  • Jennie Bob Bizal Clark
  • Abigail Lynn
  • Emily Maar
  • Madison Marone
  • Lauren McGrath

Officers

  • Michael Burka, Clerk
  • Drew Epstein, President
  • Lou Gentile, Acting Treasurer

Corporators

  • Ben Carroll
  • Ashley Craig
  • Susan Currie
  • Carolyn Harder
  • Barbara Hitchcock
  • Stella Johnson
  • Marky Kauffmann
  • Chris Lee
  • Alice Lombardo
  • Rania Matar
  • Margaret McIndoe
  • Allan Rodgers
  • Dianne Schaefer
  • Larry Volk

Directors

  • Erin Carey
  • Lou Jones
  • Susan Lapides
  • Amy Rindskopf
  • Ellen Slotnick
  • Joe Staska
  • Mary Kay Swan
  • Donna Tramontozzi
  • Brian Wilson

Honorary Directors

  • Lee Griffin
  • Clarence Kemper
  • Richard O’Reilly
  • Dick Ockerbloom
  • Betsey Spiller

Youth Advisory Council

  • Emma Westlund (HS)

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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