Events

We invite creators to come and explore with Polaroid Now+ and the new Polaroid Lab to see how your experiments can unlock new realms of color, vision and creativity in your work.

No two people are the same, like no two Polaroid shots are the same. In life, just like in our photography, it's our imperfections that make us unique.

Inspired by The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, which began with a retrospective exhibit at MIT, and is currently touring the world, we want you to be motivated by the moment.

Artist and instructor, Jari Poulin, has put together

© Silke Hase, previous attendee of Member Networking DayJoin us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network, grow, ask questions and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Saturday morning with Crista Dix, Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity. Join us Saturday October 26th from 9.30am-12pm for our roundtable peer-run portfolio critique group

May is Photobook Month at the Griffin Museum! To celebrate, join us for a Photobook Sale and Fair, celebrating local publishers, artists, and all things books.

From 11 AM to 2 PM, we welcome all to our book fair where artists and publishers can showcase and sell their books. Secure your table for only $75 to share and sign your photobooks with fellow enthusiasts. Not to be missed, the Griffin Museum will also offer a curated selection of photobooks for sale. At 3pm, we are joined by Henry Horenstein for a talk and signing. More info on Henry's event here.

If you purchase a table

Join us Saturday April 20th at 6pm for the celebration of the artists of our new exhibition, Huellas de Existencia | Traces of Existence, featuring Alejandro Cartegena, Muriel Hasbun, Ilena Doble Hernandez, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and Alejandro Morales. These artists speak to ideas of migration, history, reminiscence, family, and existence through their experimental photography, such as collage, visual juxtapositions, and physical manipulations. These multi-layered photographs reflect artist's exploration of identity, their relationship with their homeland, social and political issues of Latin

Meet us in the Griffin Zoom Room on Thursday May 30th at 7pm Eastern to hear about Ileana's path of creativity, her multidisciplinary practice and the diptychs that place a spotlight on American culture through the eyes of an immigrant.

Join us for a conversation with Traces of Existence artist Ileana Doble Hernandez. Her series Una mexicana in Gringolandia is on the walls of the Griffin Gallery until June 9th.

Ileana Doble Hernandez's socially conscious and interdisciplinary practice includes photography, video and experimental installations. She sees her practice as a form of

As a part of Photobook Month, join us in the Griffin Zoom Room for an evening with Kris Graves and Jon Henry as they discuss their collaboration, Stranger Fruit. Learn about their collaboration and their own photographic ventures since. Reserve your spot below.

Stranger Fruit has been released as a monograph through Monolith Editions/Kris Graves Projects. The first edition has sold out but the preorder for the second edition can be found here.

Stranger Fruit was created in response to the senseless murders of black men across the nation by police violence. Even with smart

Join us July 22nd - July 26th, from 10am - 4pm for Introduction to Handmade Photobook Binding with Eliot Dudik. In this 5-day intensive course, we will begin with editing and sequencing techniques for the photographs you have brought with you to the Griffin Museum that represent a project you have been toying with or deeply engaged in. We will discuss strategies for approaching an edit and sequence for differing types of work that tease out meaning and/or narrative. Once we are settled on our edits and sequences, we will then discuss some basic strategies in photobook layout and design. We

We are honored to host a panel at the museum in Winchester on the controversial topic of Artificial Intelligence and how it intersects with creativity, critical thinking and navigating truth in visual imaging. As part of he programs supporting our exhibition Artificial Intelligence, we want to have a conversation on critical thinking in this time of widespread mis and disinformation. Join us at the museum on Thursday October 23rd at 6.30pm. We are working to secure the broadcast along with the in person event. We will provide more information as it becomes available. About our distinguished

Join us for an in person event with photographer Lana Z. Caplan. Her book Oceano explores the inhabitants, visitors and legacy of California's Oceano Dunes. Lana will be giving a talk about the book and photographic series and signing books after.

These are the dunes of Edward Weston's iconic photos; of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 buried movie set for The Ten Commandments; of the Dunites-- the artists, poets, nudists, and mystics who lived in dune shacks from the 1920s to the 40s--hosts to Weston during shooting trips; and fundamentally, of the native Chumash. These dunes now host a

The Griffin Museum is excited to have a special evening celebrating the lifetime creative work of Margo Cooper, Deep Inside the Blues, and benefitting the museum's exhibitions, programs and education. Join us for an exciting evening with Margo Cooper, a musical performance with Toni Lynn Washington and a silent auction of concert photographs from Margo Cooper, Ron Pownall and Bootsy Holler.

Stella and Stella, Grandmother and granddaughter, Greenville, MS, 10/13/2003 - Silent Auction Item

Join us for an unforgettable night, starting with a presentation and talk with Margo Cooper talking