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Documentary II: Creating Dynamic Visual Narrative, and Compelling Storytelling with Lisa Kessler (Online)

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

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Elemental Blues Artist Panel I: Anna Leigh Clem, Julia Whitney Barnes and Sally Chapman

The Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to host artists Anna Leigh Clem, Julia Whitney Barnes and Sally Chapman 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 21st at 7pm. This event is FREE to our Griffin members, and $10 for General Admission. © Sally Chapman

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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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In Borrowed Light and Girlfriend, artist talk with Michael James O'Brien (Online)

The Griffin Museum of Photography is honored to present an evening artist talk with visual artist, author, and activist, Michael James O'Brien. Mr. O'Brien will discuss his journey into photography, share his projects In Borrowed Light and Girlfriend and talk about the meanings behind the works, as well as, new projects. He will examine the ideas of beauty, and identity thru a queer lens, and share the way that these concepts are at the deepest center of how he sees and experiences the world, and how it affects every aspect of his lens-based art, writing, teaching, and activism. In addition

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In Conversation with Sangyon Joo: The Vision Behind Datz Press

Datz PressFounded in 2010, Datz Press is an art book publisher based in Seoul, Korea, specializing in creating, publishing, and exhibiting photography-centered books. Datz Press publications preserve and share artists' work by carefully adapting each book to best represent the artist's vision. They also serve as an alternative exhibition space for artists, fostering artistic exchange that enriches life through photography and books. Over the past fifteen years, Datz Press has published more than 90 titles, which are included in numerous private and public collections. Datz Press also operates

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In Lieu of Flowers, artist talk with Caleb Cole (Online)

The Griffin Museum is excited to offer this amazing artist talk with Boston-based artist Caleb Cole. In Lieu of Flowers is an ongoing series of memorial portraits of the trans people murdered in the United States and Puerto Rico due to transphobia, state violence, and institutional neglect. Part mourning ritual and part photograph, Cole use the roses from his garden and portraits primarily made by the subjects themselves to create a series of anthotypes, images created using photosensitive material from plants and the sun that cannot be fixed, therefore will eventually fade. This process is

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Jeff Larason & Lynn Saville | Solitude in Cities online conversation

We are pleased to host in our Griffin Zoom Room an online conversation with Jeff Larason & Lynn Saville. Their exhibition, Solitude in Cities is on the walls of our satellite space - Griffin @ Lafayette City Center through March 23, 2025.

Jeff Larason's Boston and Lynn Saville's New York is a captivating exploration of quiet moments within two bustling urban environments.This exhibition combines the powerful and evocative urban imagery of Boston photographer Jeff Larason and New York City photographer Lynn Saville. Both artists delve deep into the visual language of cities, capturing

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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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