Outdoor Gallery

We are thrilled to bring Photoville back to Winchester this summer for a pop up public installation!

Creating a photographic walking trail around Judkin’s Pond, where the Griffin Museum is located, the Pop Up is a public photo installation showcasing national, international and New England artists. This year we also bring sidewalk art to downtown Winchester, featuring contemporary New England based photographic artists and featured images from the Arthur Griffin archives.

The Griffin Museum is pleased to partner with Photoville and the Winchester Cultural District to bring this Pop Up to Winchester, featuring 13 installations in photographic partnerships with the United Nations, Atlantic Magazine and Leica Camera USA, featuring the creativity and community of women and BIPOC artists alongside our local New England Photographic Community, highlighting the people and communities they inhabit. 

Now in it’s 18th year, the students of Photosynthesis cover the walls of the Griffin Museum and Winchester High School. The students of Winchester and Burlington High Schools have worked to craft an introspective exhibition featured on banners outside the museum.

We are thrilled to have the creativity of the Winchester Community Music School curate music to enhance the visual experience. Each cube has a QR code that links to a specially composed soundtrack for the photographs.

Working as a visual and metaphorical bridge between the Skillings and Shore Roads, a new site specific installation on the Shore Road Bridge, creatively conceived by Architect and Sculptor Mary McKenna with artwork by artist Stefanie Timmerman looks at the Aberjona Riverway, intersecting with our changing climate in an installation called Plastic Spring.

A printable walking map of Judkin’s Pond and our Sidewalk Art.

We want to thank our producing partners Photoville and the Arthur Griffin Foundation for bringing the Fence back to Winchester. We are grateful to our contributing partners, Mary McKenna & Associates Architects, the Town of Winchester, John and Mary Murphy Educational Foundation,  Winchester Community Music School, Winchester High School, Burlington High School, The Jenks Center and the Winchester Cultural District.  We couldn’t continue without our fiscal sponsors, EnKa Society, Winchester Savings Bank,  Winchester Cultural Council and Wegman’s

Thank you to our Winchester High School interns, McKenna McDaniels, Neave Bunting, Kelly McDowell and Duncan White.

This outdoor exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography is placed on two large banners outside on the museum’s building. One is on the Winchester Rotary Terrace wall and one is outside on the back wall of the museum overlooking Judkin’s Pond. The museum’s back wall can be seen from across the pond on opposing shores. This exhibition is drawn from over 1300 postcards – from women and girls ranging in age from 6 to 99 years old, all received by the artist, Joan Lobis Brown who conceived and executed this project.

As Joan Lobis Brown states, “These women have drawn, collaged and written heartfelt, inspiring, humorous and poignant responses.

Originally this project was created to celebrate 2020 the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. The goal was to give as many women as possible a voice, with the hope that a collective wisdom would inspire other women.

Due to the pandemic, many celebrations including exhibitions of this project were indefinitely postponed or cancelled in their entirety.

However, our Vice President elect, Kamala Harris’s words during the vice-presidential debate, “I’m Speaking” give the project a new, meaningful, far-reaching and momentous focus. In fact, “I’m Speaking” is the new sub-title of this project.

We are aiming for 1,500 plus postcards, but there is no limit! To date, we have over 1300 postcards from girls and women in 49 states. As the pandemic dissipates, we will again reach out to women and girls from all over the United States.

There are 12 variations of the postcard, so each postcard is important for the construction of the presentation.

There are 6 different shades of pink – and 12 different postcards (with the position of the image either on the left or right).

The mosaic formed by the different colors, image placement, different handwriting, drawing and ink color, represent the diversity and individuality of each woman. The entire wall when seen from a distance represents the strength, wisdom and beauty of women in general.

Women and girls are invited to participate – to write, draw or collage – on the pink blank part of the postcard – something they would tell their younger selves. Something she wished she had known as a younger woman.

The postcards are anonymous.  Each woman is asked to sign only with her initials and age. Some women choose to write their full names. An analysis of the answers by age group is ongoing.” – JLB

This exhibition is presented to the public by the Winchester Cultural District and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

See more on Joan Lobis Brown’s web page.

The Women’s Project on Joan Lobis Brown’s website