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Elemental Blues Artist Panel II: Bryan Whitney, Brett Windham and Cynthia Katz

The Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to host artists Bryan Whitney, Brett Windham and Cynthia Katz for an online artist talk in celebration of their participation in the exhibition Elemental Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes. The show, featuring six artists exploring the creative possibilities of cyanotype, is on view at our Lafayette City Center Satellite Gallery through June 30. Join us ONLINE in the Griffin Zoom Room on Wednesday May 28th at 7pm. This event is FREE to our Griffin members, and $10 for General Admission. © Bryan Whitney

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Jill Enfield | Artist Talk on Glasshouse of New Americans (Online)

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome creative artist Jill Enfield's Glasshouse of New Americans to our grounds this summer. We are also pleased to present a special online conversation with the artist.

Join us online on September 5th at 6:30 PM for this engaging presentation.

Titled The New Americans, this physical display explores heritage, genealogy, and homeland. Jill's personal connection to immigration, her paternal relatives fleeing Frankfurt, Germany, in 1939, inspired a project honoring immigrants' integral role in society and acknowledging the challenges they

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July Online Artist Talk | 15th Annual Photobook Exhibition

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online artist talk celebrating the art of photobook making. Join us from 7 to 8:30pm to hear from artists Lisa Tang Liu & J. David Tabor, James Collins, Tsai Wei Tseng, Courtney Johnson, Robert Kalman, Shari Diamond, Thomas Winter, and Sean Perry.

The Griffin Museum recognizes the importance of photobooks. Distinct from the gallery aesthetic, photobooks offer their own visual language, often conducive to more narrative qualities and seriality than the standard on-the-wall format. We celebrate this form of artistry and want to see the photobooks

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Laila Nahar | A Creative Journey

We are pleased to host the talented lens based artist and bookmaker Laila Nahar online in the Griffin Zoom Room on Tuesday September 9th at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific for a conversation about creativity and book making. Nahar's stunning hand crafted books are in the collection of the Griffin Museum library. She will discuss her path as a photographer, and as a bookmaker and how her background shaped her artistic journey. Nahar will talk about her book-making process featuring a selection of books.

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Master Class: Portfolio Development with Sal Taylor Kydd (Online)

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to partner with renowned lens-based artist Sal Taylor Kydd for an inspiring new workshop designed for photographers who are passionate about their craft and eager to elevate their skills with expert guidance.

Over the course of six enriching weeks, you'll embark on a transformative journey to enhance your photographic storytelling abilities and develop your work within a cohesive series. This class is designed to help facilitate growth, not only as a photographic artist, but also as a visual storyteller, developing a deeper understanding of how to

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NEPR | Preparing for Portfolio Reviews with Crista Dix

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.

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New England Portfolio Reviews | NEPR

Join us online for a weekend on connection, creativity and education September 27th / 28th, 2025 at the New England Portfolio Reviews (NEPR) for portfolio reviews with curators, gallerists, museum, book and editorial professionals in the field of photography. The Griffin Museum of Photography is bringing you two days of portfolio reviews this fall.Since 2009 NEPR has been produced by the Griffin Museum with the mission of bringing reviewers and photographers together from New England and beyond for two days of discussion, networking, and gaining fresh perspective on one's work. NEPR serves

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People of Chelsea | Darlene DeVita & Sarah Putnam

Please join us for an in person conversation with Darlene DeVita and Sarah Putnam, the creators of the People of Chelsea project. As part of our Vision(ary) program, the exhibition, People of Chelsea is now on view at the Griffin@Lafayette City Center Place.

We are thrilled to have both artists in Winchester to have a conversation about the people and place of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Join us In Person on Wednesday September 16th at the Griffin Museum at 6.30pm Eastern for this presentation.

About the People of Chelsea project -

The People of Chelsea Project was born from a

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

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

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