Monthly Mentoring and Critique Program with Vaughn Sills (October 2019-May 2020)

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This mentoring and critique program is for photographers deeply engaged in their work and looking for a place to discuss their images and ideas in depth and define their goals and how to reach them. Participants will get to know each other and their colleagues’ work, critique new work at each meeting, and help each other make the most of their strengths in photography.

The group will be led by Vaughn Sills, who has taught photographers at all levels to think critically about their own work and that of others; she has given portfolio reviews through the New England Women in Photography and has juried exhibitions at galleries in Boston and elsewhere. Vaughn is particularly interested in helping photographers make their images more powerful and meaningful both for themselves and for an audience.

The group will meet once a month, October 2019 – May 2020. The course meets on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon at The Griffin Museum in Winchester on these dates:

October 15, 2019
November 12, 2019
December 17, 2019
January 21, 2020
February 18, 2020
March 17, 2020
April 14, 2020
May 12, 2020

Cost: $500 Members, $550 Non-Members. Limited to 8 participants.

Bio:

Vaughn Sills’ photographs have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, including the recent Griffin exhibit “Down Garden Paths”; in a review of that show Mark Feeney described her work as “marvels of emotional gravity”.  Vaughn’s work has been shown throughout the US; it is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, Harvard Art Museum, as well as the Fidelity, Polaroid, and the Eaton Vance Collections, among others. Vaughn has received two Artist’s Fellowships in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and awards from the Artadia Dialogue for Art and Culture, the Polaroid Foundation, and The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEA). Two books of her work have been published: Places for the Spirit, Traditional African American Gardens (2010) and One Family (2001).

Vaughn has taught this course for three years and loves working with the photographers she’s met through the Griffin. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Brandeis WSRC and Associate Professor Emerita of Photography at Simmons College.

Selected One Person Exhibits:

• Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
• US Botanic Garden Washington, DC
• Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
• Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA
• Gamill Gallery, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford MS­
• Matthaei Botanical Gardens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• DuSables Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL
• Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe IL

For more information about Vaughn, please see www.vaughnsills.com.

Image © Parrish Dobson