Collaborations, our special print program features creative photographic artists partnering to imagine and produce a one of a kind print to support the Griffin Museum of Photography. We started the program last year, bringing artists together, combining their talents and creativity, to create unique prints, with the funds raised from your purchase benefitting the museum, its education, programs and exhibitions.
We are honored to see the next available print in the program from Boston based artists Caleb Cole and Jesseca Ferguson.
Caleb Cole and Jesseca Ferguson
Contemplating the Moon, 2023
Caleb Cole and Jesseca Ferguson
Digital collage from found photograph and handmade cyanotype artist book
Archival Pigment Print
7.2×9 inch image on 8.5×11 inch paper
edition of 20 with 2 AP’s $250
Purchase the print here, or contact the museum to reserve your edition.
Caleb Cole is a Midwest-born, Boston-based artist whose work addresses the opportunities and difficulties of queer belonging, as well as aims to be a link in the creation of that tradition, no matter how fragile or ephemeral or impossible its connections. They were an inaugural resident at Surf Point Residency and have received an Artadia Finalist Award, Hearst 8×10 Biennial Award, 3 Magenta Flash Forward Foundation Fellowships, and 2 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 awards, among other distinctions. Caleb exhibits regularly at a variety of national venues and has held solo shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newport Art Museum, Davis Art Museum, Brown University Art Museum, and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. Caleb is represented by Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Jesseca Ferguson works at the intersection of 19th century handmade photographic processes, collage, and artist books. Her work is held in over twenty public collections in the US and abroad. US collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; Columbia University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York, NY; and New Mexico History Museum, Pinhole Resource Collection, Santa Fe, NM. International collections include Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, France; Museum of the History of Photography, Kraków, Poland; and The Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, England. Her artistic and curatorial projects have been supported by Art Matters, Inc., the Trust for Mutual Understanding (twice), and MacDowell, among others. Her images and photo-objects have been published in numerous books, catalogues, and articles on handmade photography in the US and abroad.
Jesseca lives and works in a co-operative live-work artist building located in the Fort Point area of Boston, MA. She holds undergraduate degrees from Harvard University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She received her MFA from Tufts University (in conjunction with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). An artist who has had a career as an educator, she has taught courses/workshops and been a visiting artist at Boston-area art schools including Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, Clark University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA@Tufts).
