The museum will be closed Monday June 30 – July 4 to install our new exhibition. The 31st Annual Juried Members Exhibition opens on Saturday July 5th. Join us for an opening reception celebrating the artists of our Members Exhibition on July 11th.

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NEPR | Preparing for Portfolio Reviews with Crista Dix

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Virtual Event Virtual Event

September 6 @ 10:00 am – September 7 @ 3:00 pm

NEW SECTION ADDED!

20 minutes for an introduction to you and your work goes by quickly. We’d like to see you put your best foot forward. This is a weekend workshop to support your strategy for success. As part of our New England Portfolio Reviews held in the fall, we offer this weekend workshop to help ease the pressure of the reviews. Whether you are a seasoned attendee, or if this is your first review, this workshop filled with information including the value of research, conversational practice and the confidence of your preperation will help you navigate the portfolio review world.

The New England Portfolio Review (NEPR) is scheduled on September 26th and 27, 2025, and we want you to be prepared. This weekend workshop with Griffin Museum Executive Director Crista Dix will get you ready for those conversations, working through how to present your work online, talking about your work with confidence, and be ready to ask questions of your reviewers to maximize your experience.

Day One is best practices for the reviews, the do’s and don’ts, your pitch and the value of research and the strategy for finding your best match and outcome. Day 2 is a mock review, getting your pitch down, practicing screen sharing and working to your best advantage in that 20 minute time frame.

Dates of the workshop

Saturday September 6   10am – 3.30pm   / Sunday September 7 10am – 3.30pm

Price is $200 for Members of the Griffin Museum and $250 for Non-members. Space is limited to 8 participants.

Crista Dix

Crista Dix is the Griffin Museum’s Executive Director. Before coming to the Griffin Museum in 2020 she spent fifteen years operating her own photography gallery, wall space creative, closing it in 2020 to make the move to New England and the Griffin. Having a career spanning many paths she has a background rooted in science, business and creative art. This well rounded experience provides a solid foundation for supporting the Griffin’s mission to encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of the visual, emotional and social impact of photographic art.

Her gallery, wall space, supported emerging and mid-career artists with exhibitions, talks, events and art fairs around the country. As an internationally known gallery, Crista worked with clients all over the world and represented national and international artists. In addition to wall space’s special event and exhibition schedule, it hosted a series of artist lectures, studio and community events. Her program Life Support worked with over 400 artists, donating over $80,000 to charitable foundations Doctors Without Borders, Direct Relief and Habitat for Humanity.

Ms. Dix has written essays about photography, introducing creative artists work to a broader community. She has been a member of numerous panels and discussions on the craft of photography, juried creative competitions and has participated in major portfolio reviews across the country in cities like Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New Orleans.

$200.00 – $250.00 Get ready for NEPR and Fall portfolio reviews.

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Griffin Museum | November in Paris!

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November 12 @ 8:00 am – November 16 @ 5:00 pm

Join the Griffin Museum in Paris this November!

Celebrate the creativity and craft of photography in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. We spend a week exploring the city, seeing and photographing the City of Light. Join us for Paris Photo and a curated tour of special events, artist visits and photo walks in November.

Our tour starts on Wednesday November 12th with a VIP visit to Paris Photo’s vernissage, then throughout the week, we visit museums, galleries and satellite events surrounding the fair. This 5 day tour will be packed with visual delight, immersive experiences and a chance to photograph the city for a memorable week of creativity. Limited to 10 participants, join Executive Director Crista Dix as we explore all that Paris has to offer.

Paris Photo is the world’s largest art fair dedicated to photography and image-based art. For more than 25 years, Paris Photo, the leading international fair dedicated to photography and image-based art, has been accompanying galleries and publishers, together with their artists, in the art market. It has served as a leading platform for over 25 years for the exploration of the medium.

Celebrating its 28th anniversary in 2025, Paris Photo continues to foster a powerful dialogue between historic works and contemporary practices. Featuring more than 200 galleries and 45 publishers, Paris Photo offers a rich program that spans five sectors: Main, Emergence, Digital, Voices and Book. In 2024, Paris Photo welcomed over 80,000 visitors, including 1,700 artists and 400 book signings, 7,000 collectors and VIP, 245 exhibitors from more than 30 different countries, and representatives from 200 international museums & institutions.

August Sander at Paris Photo 2024
Artist Talks
Paris Photo 2024

On this trip we will visit galleries and museums across the city. We spend time with independent publishers of photobooks, We have a street photography day planned with a photo mentor, or add to your collection a vintage photo from a visit to a Marais photo store.

For more information and an itinerary, please contact us at the museum.

Trip Dates: November 12 – 16, 2025

Tour Fee: Member Rate $1,795.00 per person / Non Member Rate $1,950. per person. $600 of the trip is nonrefundable after August 1, 2025.

Included in Fee:  Paris Photo VIP pass ($200+ value): Nov 13-16 at the Grand Palais (VIP Day is Wednesday Nov 12th). all gallery or museum entrance fees, and additional artist talks, book signings and special events. We will be hosting 2 lunches and 2 dinners.

Not Included in Fee: Airfare, ground transportation, lodging or meals (other than what is listed above). If you need recommendations, please contact the Griffin Museum for a list.

Participant Capacity: 10 participants maximum, so make your reservations today!

$600.00 – $1,950.00

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NEPR | Preparing for Portfolio Reviews with Crista Dix

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Virtual Event Virtual Event

August 16 @ 10:00 am – August 17 @ 3:00 pm

20 minutes for an introduction to you and your work goes by quickly. We’d like to see you put your best foot forward. This is a weekend workshop to support your strategy for success. As part of our New England Portfolio Reviews held in the fall, we offer this weekend workshop to help ease the pressure of the reviews. Whether you are a seasoned attendee, or if this is your first review, this workshop filled with information including the value of research, conversational practice and the confidence of your preperation will help you navigate the portfolio review world.

The New England Portfolio Review (NEPR) is scheduled on September 26th and 27, 2025, and we want you to be prepared. This weekend workshop with Griffin Museum Executive Director Crista Dix will get you ready for those conversations, working through how to present your work online, talking about your work with confidence, and be ready to ask questions of your reviewers to maximize your experience.

Day One is best practices for the reviews, the do’s and don’ts, your pitch and the value of research and the strategy for finding your best match and outcome. Day 2 is a mock review, getting your pitch down, practicing screen sharing and working to your best advantage in that 20 minute time frame.

Dates of the workshop

Saturday August 16   10am – 3.30pm   / Sunday August 17 10am – 3.30pm – SOLD OUT

New Dates added – September 6/7, 2025 – Link to register is here.

Price is $200 for Members of the Griffin Museum and $250 for Non-members. Space is limited to 8 participants.

Crista Dix

Crista Dix is the Griffin Museum’s Executive Director. Before coming to the Griffin Museum in 2020 she spent fifteen years operating her own photography gallery, wall space creative, closing it in 2020 to make the move to New England and the Griffin. Having a career spanning many paths she has a background rooted in science, business and creative art. This well rounded experience provides a solid background for supporting the Griffin’s mission to encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of the visual, emotional and social impact of photographic art.

Her gallery, wall space, supported emerging and mid-career artists with exhibitions, talks, events and art fairs around the country. As an internationally known gallery, Crista worked with clients all over the world and represented national and international artists. In addition to wall space’s special event and exhibition schedule, it hosted a series of artist lectures, studio and community events. Her program Life Support worked with over 400 artists, donating over $80,000 to charitable foundations Doctors Without Borders, Direct Relief and Habitat for Humanity.

Ms. Dix has written essays about photography, introducing creative artists work to a broader community. She has been a member of numerous panels and discussions on the craft of photography, juried creative competitions and has participated in major portfolio reviews across the country in cities like Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New Orleans.

$200.00 – $250.00 Get ready for NEPR and Fall portfolio reviews.

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Photobook Focus | The Role of a Photobook in your Career with Mary Virginia Swanson

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July 12 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

From hand-crafted, to print-on-demand, to a high-end monograph of your work, a printed piece showcasing your photographs can play an important role in moving your career forward.
In this richly illustrated lecture, Mary Virginia Swanson will help artists consider the most appropriate path to bring their work to book form and into the hands of their target audience.
Whether you are seeking a versatile promotional piece, dream of a catalogue to memorialize completion of a body of work, or strive to achieve a well-designed publication that amplifies the intention of the work, having clarity of both purpose and budget is essential. Swanson will address the question of choosing to self-publish vs being published to most effectively achieve your goals and walk us through the reality of each path to publication.
Finally, planning for an impactful launch will ensure you have the best chance to reach your audience, and your goals. A handout will be provided to participants after presentation.

Join us IN PERSON and ONLINE in the Griffin Zoom Room on Saturday July 12th from 11 to 1pm Eastern Time / 8 – 10am Pacific Time for this in depth look at moving your photobook ideas forward. We will be zooming from the Griffin Museum. Bring your breakfast and settle in for a great presentation!

This event will be recorded, and available to all participants for a limited time after the online presentation. Participants will be able to review the recording for 14 days following the event. All registered participants will be sent a link. If you are unable to attend the live presentation, the recording is available to you for a limited time to access and watch.

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Mary Virginia Swanson, © Richard Klein

About our Presenter:
Mary Virginia Swanson brings extensive knowledge and deep connections across the photography industry, offering a wide range of insights into the creation, publication and marketing of lens-based projects. She is the co-author, alongside Darius Himes, of Publish Your Photography Book, now in its 3rd edition (Radius Books, 2023). A respected author, educator and advisor, Swanson’s teachings have guided countless photographers through the complex process of bringing their work to publication. 
Websites: www.mvswanson.com and www.publishyourphotographybook.com
Instagram: @ maryvirginiaswanson and @publishyourphotographybook

$35.00 – $45.00

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Spring Education schedule is online!

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Spring class registration is now open! Join us to develop your craft with new opportunities for advancement.

Portfolio Development, History of Photography, Alternative Process and Night Photography are among some of the offerings. Take a look at whats coming up this Spring with our new Education Catalog.

We’ve added a new workshop in June! Elin Spring and Suzanne Revy are teaching Writing About Photography . The workshop starts June 4th, 2022 and registration is open now!

Griffin State of Mind | Elizabeth Buckley

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In today’s Griffin State of Mind, it is a great pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Griffin team, Elizabeth Buckley. Coming full circle as an early Photography Atelier student, now an instructor, Elizabeth can’t wait to get started this September. Welcome to the Griffin Elizabeth!

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ELIZABETH BUCKLEY is a photography based Artist-Educator, whose current preoccupations are image sequencing, assemblage, social and cultural considerations and humor. She often presents her work in handmade artist books and installations. In addition to digital photography, she has also worked in graphic design, set design for theatre, and enjoys mixed media and experimental photographic processes. Buckley has exhibited her work nationally. Most recently, Buckley taught Digital Imaging, Illustration, and Layout programs to Fashion Communication and Merchandising Students at Lasell College. In the past, she taught extensively in the Photography & Media Arts Dept. at Chester College of New England (Chester, NH).  The highlights of her time there were facilitating a study abroad residency in Ireland at the Burren College of Art (Ballyvaughan, County Clare), and guiding students in Directed Study projects. Buckley earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College (Plainfield VT) in 2005, which informs her current art practice and teaching. She also holds a BA in Photography from Salem State University (Salem MA).

Tell us how you first connected to the Griffin Museum.

Years ago I was accepted into an exhibit held at the Griffin Museum, and attended the opening. I remember being impressed with the beautiful gallery devoted to Photography. I often prefer regular Museum hours though; the Griffin Museum is a peaceful place where you can spend time experiencing images and exhibits at a slower, more meaningful pace.

hands fold outHow do you involve photography in your everyday life?

I’ve been editing an image, nearly daily for several years, as a simple exercise in possibilities. Many are images I passed by before. I try to see them with fresh eyes. I’m mostly drawn to these daily exercises for their lack of focus on specific outcomes, which frees you to discover new ideas and processes.

 

Can you tell us about any images or artists that have caught your attention recently?

I recently revisited August Sander’s portrait work. I had the thought then that I should revisit Diane Arbus too. I found a review of Diane Arbus & August Sander, an exhibition at the Edwynn Houk Gallery In Zurich in 2011. It’s interesting to study what connected them, and why I was instinctively seeing it.  Examining connections like this helps you consider your own place, and context among other photographers.

As a new instructor for the Photography Atelier, can you talk a bit about your philosophy for this creative program?  I’ve taken part in the Atelier myself, very early in its inception at Radcliffe College in 2001, and my experiences there were important in my own artistic development. I see the current Atelier as a community finding connections, both between each other and between the images that we present. When stretching out ideas, we’ll give space to learn from perceived success or failure in order to give room for unexpected discoveries, and define personal preferences in our own work. We’ll ask questions that begin with “what if__?” and “why not__?”. Then we’ll refine our intentions, grow our projects, and consider traditional and alternative ways to best present our photography for exhibition.

 

man shot with arrows

© Jeremy Dennis, “Nothing Happened Here #3” 2017

Has there been a Griffin Museum exhibition that has particularly engaged or moved you?  I just visited the Griffin Museum this week and saw Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists and Issues. The exhibition’s considerations of indigenous identity are quite moving. But I was especially engaged by it as a group exhibition. It included ten photographic artists all addressing the same social concerns, but each artist’s process seemed significantly different. I spent some time with each participant’s presentation, to study how and why they may have made their choices in bringing the final images to exhibition.

 

What is your favorite place to escape to? Living in nature in general, with few belongings, at the water’s edge of a river or lake. My work often includes organic elements, so this feeds the actual making of some images, but also provides a spiritual connection with nature.

o'keene hands

© Alfred Stieglitz – Georgia O’Keefe Hands, 1919

 

What visual obsession do you have at the moment?

It’s actually an ongoing visual attraction. I have often photographed hands, but for a variety of reasons – sometimes as a portrait, sometimes for the hand’s ability to express and communicate, sometimes to represent humankind, sometimes to suggest a narrative or to make marks, and sometimes simply for their ability to hold things.

 

Stieglitz

© Gertrude Kasabier – Alfred Steiglitz, 1902

 

 

 

If you could be in a room with anyone to have a conversation, who would it be and what would you talk about?

I think it would be great to have a cup of tea with Alfred Steiglitz and talk about art and photography. His skill in curating exhibits and championing photography are legendary. Also, I can hardly believe the changes and progress in Photography in my own lifetime. It might be great fun to show Steiglitz the Internet and explain Instagram.

 

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