October 8 – November 30, 2025
The Griffin museum is pleased to present the works of Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek. Practicing artists and co-founders of A Yellow Rose Project, Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek have combined their work to create a special conversation about photography, process and connection.
After uplifting the work of 105 women in the Yellow Rose Project, it was time to showcase the work of the creative women who made space for others.
Perennial Impressions brings together two artists exploring the cycles of growth, preservation, and legacy through photography.
Selections from Frances Jakubek’s Archive of the Ego turn the lens inward, creating intimate self-portraits that respond to personal events and the long history of photographic self-study. Her work reflects on ownership, representation, and the shifting power of the body, which was once defined by external validation and later rooted in inner potency and renewal.
Meg Griffiths, drawing inspiration from Anna Atkins and the early history of women in photography, uses cyanotypes to impress plants onto paper. Her process in her newest body of work Bluest Flos echoes both scientific obsession and poetic preservation, creating a lineage of images that serve as an archive of place, body, and time.
Their works speak to the kinship between the natural world and the female body, to creation and gestation, and to the fleeting yet potent impressions we leave, whether flower or human, ephemeral or enduring.
About the artists:
Meg Griffiths (b. 1980) was born in Indiana and raised in Texas. She received Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Texas in Cultural Anthropology and English Literature and earned her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently lives in Denton, Texas where she is the Assistant Professor of Photography in the Department of Visual Art at Texas Woman’s University.
Meg’s photographic research currently deals with domestic, economic, historical and cultural relationships across the Southern United States and Cuba. Her work has travelled nationally as well as internationally, and is placed in collections such as Center for Creative Photography, Capital One Collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Center for Fine Art Photography.
Her book projects, both monographs as well as collaborative projects have been acquired by various institutions around the country such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Museum of Modern Art, University of Virginia, University of Iowa, Clemsen, Maryland Institute College of Art, Ringling College of Art, and Washington and Lee University, to name a few.
She was honored as one of PDN 30’s : New and Emerging Photographers in 2012, named one of eight Emerging Photographers at Blue Spiral Gallery in 2015, Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s Ones to Watch in 2016, was awarded the Julia Margaret Cameron for Best Fine Art Series in 2017 and awarded the 2nd Place Prize at PhotoNola in 2019.
Frances Jakubek i(b. 1988) is an image-maker, independent curator, and consultant for artists. She is the co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project, past Director of 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, Filter Photo, The Griffin Museum of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Save Art Space, and Photo District News. Jakubek has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Photography fellowships, speaker for SPE National, and lecturer for the School of Visual Arts Masters of Photography i3 Lecture Series.
Personal works have been exhibited at The Southern Contemporary Art Gallery in Charleston, SC; Filter Space, Chicago; Camera Commons in Dover, NH; and The Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, MA
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