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The Griffin Museum is pleased to offer a mentoring and critique program (ONLINE) for conscientious and self-motivated photographers seeking to broaden how they create and think about photography. Participants will get to know one another through critiques and brainstorming sessions. These ideas and suggestions will help hone strengths and elicit a deeply intentional artistic voice. In addition to supporting photographic projects, participants will work on all the elements that surround their images: the articulation, presentation, and installation. The group will be led by Aline Smithson, a

Unlock the future of photography with AI and Photography: Mastering MidJourney and Photoshop, a comprehensive 10-week online course taught by renowned AI artist and photographer, John Huet. With over 40 years of professional photography experience and 2.5 years of pioneering AI art, John Huet brings a wealth of knowledge and creativity to guide you through the transformative world of AI-enhanced photography. Course Overview:In this dynamic course, you will explore the seamless integration of traditional photography and cutting-edge AI techniques to create stunning, innovative images. Whether

Join us for an blockbuster panel featuring the artists of Artificial Intelligence. Join us in the Griffin Zoom Room Wednesday October 9th at 6.30pm for a conversation about creativity, AI and our expectations of reality in the balance with Josh Azzarella, Rashed Haq, Hayley Lohn, Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein and Phillip Toledano along with Marcus DeSieno and Sheri Lynn Behr. Rashed Haq

Phillip Toledano

Hayley Lohn

Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein

Join us online for a conversation with Barbara Peacock and Elizabeth Stone, the 30th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition 1st and 2nd place awardees! We'll hear from each artist and learn about their images in the show and greater artistic processes.

© Barbara Peacock

© Elizabeth Stone

Join us online for a conversation with Jennifer Bilodeau, Sally Chapman, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho, Susan Moldenhauer, and Lisa Tyson Ennis, the 30th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition honorable mentions! We'll hear from each artist and learn about their images in the show and greater artistic processes.

This event is FREE to Griffin Members.

© Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

© Lisa Tyson Ennis

© Sally Chapman

© Jen Bilodeau

© Susan Moldenhauer

Photography enthusiasts are currently enjoying a photobook boom; the photobook has never been more popular and accessible than it is today! Do you have a body of work that may be ready to be published? How should your book be sequenced and designed to shape the meaning of the work? What projects or collections of photographs make for compelling and collectible photobooks? After collaborating on their award-winning book Berlin (Kerber Verlag, 2022), photographer Jason Langer and designer Matthew Papa offer an eight-week course developed to help photographers explore meaning and narrative in

If there is one thing that can hold people back in their creative process, it is the fear of failing. We all want to be perceived as successful, knowledgeable, and competent, but as any scientist can tell you, there is no discovery without forming a hypothesis and testing it, and some of those are bound to fail. The bottom line is that it is impossible to discover something new without exploring the possibilities, and those experiments are not foregone conclusions. Sometimes the right mistake is what takes you in a fantastic new direction or leads to the exact bit of new knowledge needed to

This online course will be a three-week intensive to explore the camera-less process, and inventive variations of creating Cyanotypes.

WEEK ONE: CYANOTYPE BASICS AND NEGATIVE MAKING

Week one will provide an introduction to best practices for cyanotype printing with objects, and we will learn how to make a good contact negative.

WEEK TWO: BOTANICAL TONING OF CYANOTYPES

Week two we will learn how to tone blueprints naturally, using plants and gentle mineral baths, for light bleaching and nontoxic toning.

WEEK THREE: CYANOLUMENS

Week three we will explore cyanolumens, a

Making the transition from seeing an image on the screen to seeing it in print can be a challenge. To make a successful print takes more than knowing what buttons to push. After the initial instruction in basic color management and printer settings, students will explore how various controls affect the outcome and esthetic of the print. Training your eye to see and evaluate color through a series of technical exercises will be an important part of this class. Additional exercises will explore edge contrast and sharpness, and custom black and white printing. Students should be comfortable using

This online workshop is designed to help students develop a long term photography project within a supportive, and productive group learning environment. Participants will share their work as it evolves over the six sessions (twelve weeks), meeting every other week, to allow time to create in between critiques. Working on a long-term project is a powerful tool for exploring and understanding contemporary culture and personal issues, that are important to us. It is a very gratifying creative experience as we each work from our own intimate visual, and personal perspective. Participating in the