The Griffin Museum is pleased to open multiple calls for entry for various opportunities in our community. Please see the below links for pages to the unique calls’ specifications. Check back for more updates!
Member Opportunities
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30th Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition, 2024
Our annual Juried Members’ Exhibition is intended for all creative artists using photography as a primary medium, highlighting still images and including moving images, installation, and public works, experimental and mixed techniques for inclusion in our summer exhibition. We are pleased to have Mazie Harris, curator at the Getty Museum, as our juror this year.
See the final selections included for this year’s exhibition here.
CLOSED for 2024 – 2025 information coming soon.
Winter Solstice – A celebration of our creative member community
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Our Winter Solstice exhibition celebrates the works of our photo community in all of its splendor. We love sharing your vision with the world, and look forward to our annual gathering of images, ideas and vision.
Last year we showed almost 300 prints, and this year we are putting together ideas to get even more work on the walls, including video work and sculpture. Information about this year’s extravaganza will be posted in October.
OPENING CALL FOR ENTRY in OCTOBER 2024
Exhibition Opportunities
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Griffin Museum Photobook Exhibition –
Exhibition Dates June 13 – September 1,2024
We welcome entrants who wish to display their photobooks in the Griffin Gallery for a small exhibition in the summer of 2024. Winners will be given the opportunity to donate a copy to the Griffin Library Collection for posterity. Submissions open March 1- April 3, 2024
See the final selections for the 2024 exhibition here.
CLOSED for 2024 – 2025 information coming soon
Vision(ary) –
Exhibition Dates – June 7 – September 27, 2024
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Vision(ary) | Portraits of Cultures, Communities, and Environments will feature over 20 artists, all dedicated to the art of visual storytelling. Filling the Winchester community with public art, Visionaries will feature six banners on Shore Road, six banners on Skillings Road, and about 10-12 installation cubes, all presenting work by winners of this call for entry. Submissions open March 7-April 15, 2024
See the work of the selected artists for this year’s Vision(ary) here.
CLOSED for 2024 – 2025 information coming soon
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Our Town –
Our Town assembles a collection of artwork that celebrates everyday life in our town of Winchester. Designed to highlight the photography of our Winchester residents, the exhibition will be displayed on the construction fence at the Winchester Town Common from June to September 2024, as well as in an online format. Submissions open March 25-April 28, 2024
See the 2024 edition of Our Town here.
CLOSED for 2024 – 2025 information coming soon
Scholarships & Residencies
John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship –
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The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship seeks to recognize, encourage and reward photographers with the potential to create a body of work and sustain solo exhibitions. This year, the prize will be juried by Arlette & Gus Kayafas, Frazier King, and Bruce Myren. Submissions open February 5 – April 3, 2024
CLOSED for 2024 – 2025 information will be announced in January 2025
The Richards Family Prize – Submissions open September 2024
The Griffin Museum is proud to support emerging, mid-career and professional talents in the field of photography. We support visual artists with dynamic and creative ideas that challenge and progress the art form forward to new heights in vision and technology. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, from digital to film-based works and cameraless images. The Richards Family Prize is a scholarship support mid-career photographers producing work that is creative and original.
This $4,000 scholarship is open to professional and mid-career photographers worldwide. We define “professional” as any photographer who earns the majority of their income from photography. We define “mid-career” as any photographer with some visibility in exhibitions, gallery representation and scholarship and residency success in their photography career.
Our panel of jurors and more information about the submission process will be announced in late August and open for submission in September. The winning submission will have an exhibition in our Winchester Museum in Summer 2025.
The Cummings Residency Program – Submissions open September 2024
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The Cummings Residency Program works to select from a nationwide search, multiple artists of differing backgrounds, including but not limited to ethnicity, age, social, financial and cultural backgrounds to come to Winchester and engage with our local communities. Each artist will have a three-month residency engagement and a $5,000 stipend. Using their specific skill set, work to create a photographically based exhibition as a result of their connection to the Griffin Museum, Winchester and surrounding areas, while engaging in critical dialogues about art and culture with both the youth and adult community they inhabit. Using photography as a bridge to building relationships, the Artist In Residence creates a series of community portraits opening up the pathways to multicultural understanding and acceptance. The museum and its partners are creating a literacy program centered around imagery, using photography as the tool, working with professional artists to talk about their communities, cultures and new and shared origin stories.
Our panel of jurors and more information about the submission process will be announced in late August and open for submission in September. We will be awarding 2 residencies for 2025. The winning submissions will have an opportunity to arrange their residency in 2025 and 2026.