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Dear Friends:

Many years ago when I was in junior high school, my mother asked if I would volunteer to go door-to-door asking for donations for causes like the American Heart Association, the United Way and the March of Dimes.  As a sometimes-obedient son, I agreed and went to neighbors’ houses, knocked on doors and asked for donations for these important causes.  I counted on a few “regulars” to give me a few dollars.  As for the others, I left them with a brochure explaining how important a gift of any size would be.  I was always surprised when some people who either I knew or my parents knew would not chip in even a dollar or two for a worthwhile cause, especially when an eager young teenager was asking.

We do not do door-to-door solicitations anymore, but this experience instilled in me a great sense of charity and giving.  Like most of us who support causes that are important to us, hunger, poverty, disease or the arts, we give because we can, and it helps others.  Giving also helps make us feel good about ourselves.

So here I am, approaching the end of a tumultuous year, and I am knocking on your door asking for your help.  This year is not like years’ past.  I am asking that you support homelessness and poverty and give food to your local foodbank. These are causes that are most in need.  However, as president of the Board of the Griffin, I would be remiss if I did not also ask for your donation to the Museum.  While food to hungry persons will fill their immediate needs, donations to the Griffin Museum will enrich their lives long after their meals are digested.

We just celebrated a weekend of wonderful events including our coveted Focus Awards, lectures, interviews and our first ever charity auction of photographs. While the weekend was successful, will still need to make up for revenues we are losing because of Covid-related decreased admissions to the Griffin and the lack of rental income.

So, “knock-knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“It’s me, asking for your help.  Give to your local food bank, support the

homeless, and save some money for the Griffin.  It will make you feel good; I promise.”

If each person on our mailing list of 5,000 gives $100 to the Griffin Museum, we can raise $500,000 for the arts.  Wow!

There are many ways to give.

You can donate cash.

You can donate shares of appreciated stock or mutual funds and deduct the current value of the investment as a charitable contribution if you itemize.  This way, you will avoid paying capital gains tax on the profits, plus, the charity will receive the full value of your investment.

If you’re 70½ or older, you can transfer up to $100,000 from a traditional IRA tax-free to Griffin.  It will count as your required minimum distribution without being added to your adjusted gross income. Your charitable gift won’t be taxed, as it would be if you were to take a distribution and then donate the cash to charity. Plus, keeping your RMD out of your adjusted gross income could help keep your income below the threshold for being subject to the high-income surcharge for Medicare parts B and D, as well as hold down the percentage of your Social Security benefits that’s subject to taxes.

Or you can name a charity as the beneficiary of your IRA.  This way, neither your heirs nor your estate will pay income taxes on the assets, and the charity will receive the full value.

The bottom line is to give, give, give.  Make me feel like an eager young teenager again.  Thanks.

Drew

Andrew D. Epstein
President of the Board
Griffin Museum of Photography, Inc.

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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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