The results are in! Over 2,000 images were submitted to our jurors Frances Jakubek and Iaritza Menjivar, and narrowed to 60. Thank you to everyone in our Griffin artist community who submitted images, making this jurying process so difficult. We are thrilled to showcase this years artists as part of our larger creative artists community…. [Read More]
Griffin Main Gallery
Photosynthesis | XVII
PhotoSynthesis XVII is a collaboration between Burlington High School and Winchester High School facilitated by the Griffin Museum of Photography. Join us on June 12th from 4 to 6pm for an Artist Reception to celebrate these talented student works and meet their instructors and supporters. Now in its seventeenth year, this 5-month program connects approximately… [Read More]
David Levinthal | America! America! Exploring History, Myth and Memory
Once upon a time photographs were revered as truth-tellers. Today’s world questions that notion. The media saturates the printed page, airwaves, the internet with little if any distinction between fact and fiction. Historical events take place before our eyes, yet there are often dramatically different perspectives in the re-telling. Is history being chronicled…or is it… [Read More]
Photography Atelier 35
Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project building course for emerging to advanced photographers taught by Elizabeth Buckley. Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the industry and an ability to edit and sequence their own work. Instruction in the Atelier includes visual presentations based… [Read More]
Winter Solstice 2021
December is the time of year when we celebrate the members of our Griffin community. Winter Solstice brings together our creative artists to showcase their work spanning all genres, methods and ideas. This year we have over 150 members prints. Purchase the work here in the museum shop. The artists featured in this years edition… [Read More]
E. caballus: The Domesticated Horse
The overarching idea of E. caballus is simply the domesticated horse. All included solo exhibitions are threaded together by photographs and narratives related to these large single-toed, beautiful animals of today. The seven photographers included in E. caballus are: Mary Aiu, Chris Aluka Berry, Anne M. Connor, Susan Irene Correia, Landry Major, Ivan McClellan and Keron… [Read More]
The 2021 Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture Exhibition
Maine Media Workshops + College Announces Rashod Taylor as Recipient of 2021 Arnold Newman Prize, One of the Nation’s Largest in the World of Photographic Portraiture Examining Themes of Race, Culture, Family, and Legacy, Taylor’s Intimate Work Will Be on View at The Griffin Museum through October 24, 2021 The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions… [Read More]
Home Views
The overarching idea behind this exhibition revolves around a very broad interpretation of “home” through the eyes of eleven photographers in ten solo exhibitions and one video. Joy Bush – Places I Never Lived in the Main Gallery Bush Statement Bush Bio View Joy Bush’s website Anton Gautama – Selections from Home Sweet Home in the… [Read More]
distressed:memories
Statement distressed:memories is my personal labor to document my internal world, i.e. to investigate those things that I know, I have seen but that do not really exist. Many of the photographs are from my dreams. These potentials for creation are actualized when they enter consciousness as images. Photography allows them to graduate from my… [Read More]
Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists and Issues
About Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists and Issues The scope of the work in this exhibition reflects the intricate nature of indigenous identity. Ten artists have created images that reveal expressions of pain, resiliency, resistance, healing, tradition, history and celebration. The exhibition includes NatGeo photographer, Kiliii Yuyan’s sweeping landscapes, internationally acclaimed artist Meryl McMaster’s… [Read More]
