Light, Legacy & the Lumen: A Workshop with A Yellow Rose Project
October 11 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
A Yellow Rose Project founders and participants invite you to join us for a one-day, in-person workshop at the Griffin Museum, where you will harness light and material to create unique photographic prints using the lumen print technique and the 19th Amendment as inspiration for subject matter.
Two weeks prior to the workshop participants will receive an invitation email with “warm up” writing prompts as well as directives to thoughtfully gather personal objects to make one of a kind prints.
On the day, you will be given a short lecture on A Yellow Rose Project and we will talk about the various ways women artists all over the country have chosen to express themselves through photography concerning women’s issues. From there you will learn the lumen printing process, whereby you place objects onto light sensitive photo paper in order to create impressions, shadows and forms. For inspiration we will also share historical and contemporary artists using this luscious way of creating with both new and expired dark room papers.
We will provide paper, scissors, some objects, sourced material related to women’s issues and the 19th amendment that is printed on digital negatives (for shared class use), as well as all the things you will need to fix your image should you choose to do so.
Frances Jakubek, co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project, will be onsite to support!
Things you will need:
— Creative spirit
— Pen / paper
— Objects
— 8 x 11 light tight box or bag (old paper box, binder, opaque plastic bag)
— Water bottle / snacks
Class Details
Date: One 5-hour session on Saturday: October 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT
Format: In-person, at the Griffin Museum (67 Shore Rd. Winchester, MA 01890)
Course Fee: $145 (members) / $175 (non-members). A $25 materials fee is included in the total course fee.
Register Early & Save! Receive 10% off with our Early Bird Discount when you sign up by August 1, 2025. Add the coupon code JULYSAVING10 at checkout to receive a discount.
Level: All levels are welcome!
About the Instructors
Meg Griffiths is an artist, educator, and the Co-Founder of A Yellow Rose Project.
The wide arc of her work grapples with the various modes of domestic, cultural, and political engagement that structure female experience in the United States. Her inquiries are driven by a desire to capture, develop and share a closer understanding of (self-identifying) female subjects. Each project she creates, whether individual or collaborative, focused on the personal or the collective, are at heart about the intrinsic connection between self and other, between interiority and positionality, as much as kinship and community.
Her work has traveled nationally as well as internationally, and is placed in collections such as Center for Creative Photography, Capital One, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her book projects, both monographs and collaborative projects, have been acquired by various institutions around the country such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Library, Duke University Library, Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Research Institute to name a few.
She currently lives in Denton, Texas where she is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Visual Arts Division at Texas Woman’s University.
Alyssa Minahan utilizes photographic materials, including unfixed gelatin silver paper and large format negatives, in non-traditional ways to express ideas integral to the medium of photography, specifically its complex relationship to time, space and memory. Minahan has released two publications with Datz Press, an end and a beginning (2022) and NOTES (2019), and will publish a forthcoming book with Datz Press in November 2025. Her books are held in the collections of The New York Public Library, International Center for Photography Library, Harvard University Fine Arts Library, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Research Library and Stanford University Library, amongst others.
Minahan has exhibited her work at numerous galleries and museums, including the Datz Museum of Art (Gwangju, South Korea), Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, Arizona), Pingyao International Photography Festival (Shanxi, China), Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA) and hOLME kUNSTHAL (Aarhus, Denmark). She has been awarded artist residencies at the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Program, Studios at MASS MoCA and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Minahan is the recipient of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Graduate Teaching Fellowship and is currently a Lecturer in Photography at Emerson College.
About Frances Jakubek
Frances Jakubek is an image-maker, independent curator, and consultant for artists. She is the co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project, past Director of the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City, and past Associate Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.
Recent curatorial appointments include Critical Mass, Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child’s Play featuring works by Nancy Richards Farese, Filter Photo, The Griffin Museum of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Save Art Space, and Photo District News. Jakubek’s photographs explore the boundaries of private and personal space and the emotions that bind them. Private Publicity looks at images paired with text that investigate the demanding language of our social outlets. The Sensual Subway embraces the New York City transit system and all it has to offer in its intimacy and delusion. Archive of the Ego is an ongoing series of self-portraits that have evolved and changed over the past 20 years.
Jakubek has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Photography fellowships, speaker for SPE National and Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and lecturer for the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, University of New Mexico, and Washington and Lee University. She has taught workshops for The Southeast Center for Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Maine Media, and the University of Iowa.
Frances Jakubek
www.ayellowroseproject.com
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