Events

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© Ania MoussawelIt's our favorite time of the year! It's time for Winter Solstice 2024! A celebration of our members creativity! Join us for an afternoon filled with the diversity and creativity of our artist members. Be here at the museum to celebrate all of the talented artists that are part of our amazing photo community. Saturday December 14th from 4 to 6pm We are also thrilled to showcase two award winning photographers in December. In our Griffin Gallery, Bridget Jourgensen is our 2024 John Chervinsky Scholarship Award winner, showcasing her award winning

© Patricia Scialo, Lady of the Forest No. 1, 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 Sunday December 15th from 9.30am-12pm for our roundtable peer

© Pat Kennedy Corlin, participant of a previous members networking event.Join 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 Sunday February 9th from 9.30am-12pm for our roundtable peer-run portfolio

We are thrilled to have a holiday celebration and closing reception for our exhibition, For the Birds! Join us at the Jenks Center to celebrate our flock of Winchester community artists showcasing the creative photographs of the exhibition now on view For The Birds! Join us Tuesday September 10th from 4 to 6pm at the Jenks Center with a reception for the artists and a chance to see these great photographs. The town of Winchester answered our call for photographs of our fethered neighbors that inhabit the ponds, trees and skies of our community. We are pleased to showcase 20 images from our

On Saturday, September  13, the Griffin Museum invites you to celebrate our museum and Arthur  Griffin's birthday and legacy with a vibrant, immersive day of photography and community. Begin at 9 AM with a lively Coffee & Conversation hosted by Executive Director Crista  Dix. From 11 AM to 4 PM, have a portrait made at the Portrait Studio (prints courtesy of Digital Silver Imaging) and peruse the PhotoBook Fair, featuring independent publishers, artists' books, and Griffin Museum Press offerings. Celebrate our commitment to education from 5 to 8 PM with the Photography Atelier Reunion and

Join us for a celebration of Frank Siteman's exhibition at the Jenks center as part of our summer public art project, Vision(ary). Frank Siteman is a resident and chronicler of life in Winchester. His images soar above the streets to capture the light, movement and changes of the town. We are so grateful to partner with the Jenks Center of Winchester to bring this exhibition to the community.

© Frank Siteman

About Frank Siteman -

Frank Siteman was born in St. Louis in 1947. He attended Tufts University, where he majored in chemistry. Already immersed in photography, he shot

Join us on Saturday, September 13, from 11 AM to 4 PM, for a museum-wide celebration of all things photobook in honor of our founder Arthur Griffin's 122nd birthday. Independent publishers, artists, and book makers will fill our Main Gallery with distinctive artworks and publications.

Meet the artists and explore their projects: Leah Abrahams, Elysabeth Cianci, Joshua Deaner, Ellen Feldman, Joe Greene, Suzi Grossman, McCall Hollister, Robert Kalman, Kay Kenny, Michael King, Fern Nesson, Lori Van Houten, Anna Leigh Clem, and Andrew MK Warren. Visiting us is also Gateways Projects -- an

The Griffin Museum and Winchester Cultural District are excited to welcome the School of Honk to Winchester! Join us on the Griffin Terrace for a warm up session and march over to the Winchester Common for an afternoon of a blast of brass! Bring your brass instrument to the party and play with the band as music fills downtown Winchester.

Be at the Griffin Museum Sunday August 24th starting at 2.30pm. Meet other Honkers, warm up and play on our Griffin Rotary Terrace until 4pm then march down Shore Road to Winchester Common for a performance on the Green.

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The Griffin Museum and Winchester Cultural District are excited to welcome the School of Honk to Winchester! Join us on the Griffin Terrace for a warm up session and march over to the Winchester Common for an afternoon of a blast of brass! Bring your brass instrument to the party and play with the band as music fills downtown Winchester.

Be at the Griffin Museum Sunday August 24th starting at 2.30pm. Meet other Honkers, warm up and play on our Griffin Rotary Terrace until 4pm then march down Shore Road to Winchester Common for a performance on the Green.

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The Griffin Museum in partnership with the Winchester Cultural District is pleased to present an afternoon of Shakespeare with the The World's A Stage Players, performing a revue of famous, and not so famous, Shakespeare scenes and monologues, loosely organized around the eras of his life and career. Join us at the museum on the Griffin Rotary Terrace on Saturday June 21, 2025 starting at 3pm. About the Winchester Cultural District - The Winchester Cultural District includes a river walk, the area on the Common and around the renovated train station for public art, educational, and cultural