Education

Advanced Adobe Lightroom Classic with Sue Anne Hodges (Online)

In this workshop, we will go beyond the basics of the Adobe Lightroom Classic workflow. We will begin with a brief review of the Library and Develop Modules, along with key settings that impact performance and organization. From there, we will dive into problem-solving common challenges such as replacing or adding hard drives, moving files without losing links, and maximizing the use of Collections. We will also explore new tools for sorting and organizing, creating export presets, and more within the Library Module.

The Develop Module section will cover Lightroom Classic's newest features

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Advanced Mentorship and Critique with Aline Smithson (Online)

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

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Keynote Speaker | New England Portfolio Reviews (NEPR)

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

It is an honor to host Annu Palakunnathu Matthew as our keynote speaker for the 2025 New England Portfolio Review (NEPR). Her immersive approach to storytelling through still and moving images creates a visual experience that fully engages the viewer.

Join us online in the Griffin Zoom Room Friday night September 26th at 7pm for Ms. Matthew's presentation, about her work, creativity and vision.

ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW's (b. United Kingdom; lives in Rhode Island, USA) photo-based work draws on old photographs to re-examine historical narratives in the

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Artist Talk | Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

The Griffin Museum is pleased to have Francisco Gonzalez Camacho present an online artist talk on the work in his solo exhibition, Reverting.

Join us in the Griffin Zoom Room on for this special conversation celebrating the artist and the exhibition!

Reverting reflects upon the profound material connection between the landscape and image-making, exploring environmental issues and the objectification of nature in Iceland.

Developed in Reykjavík with the SIM artist-in-residence program, this project merges photography and printmaking through material experimentation, seeking

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Back to The Future: The Avant-Garde is An Address. An Artist Talk by Ellen Carey (Online)

Crush & Pull with Flare, 2019. Courtesy Ellen Carey Collection, Jayne H. Baum Gallery (NYC, NY) and Galerie Miranda (Paris, FR)

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online artist talk with Ellen Carey -- an acclaimed lens-based artist, photographer, educator, independent scholar, and guest curator, as well as a participating artist in A Yellow Rose Project.

In this talk, Carey will explore photography as a visual art form at the forefront of the avant-garde, highlighting its capacity for disruption, experimentation, and transformation. With a career spanning over four decades, Carey

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Book Design and Narrative with Jason Langer and Matthew Papa (Online)

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

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Creating Digital Negatives with Jill Enfield (Online)

In order to make Platinum/Palladium or other Alt Process prints, you need to start with a negative the size of what you would like your finished image to be. Unless you use a large format camera, digital negatives are what you need to use. This two-session workshop will be virtual, and the instructor will go through each step from how to take your photographs off your camera or your phones, put them into photoshop, and start working on how to make a good negative to printing it out the final product. There will be plenty of time for questions in each session, so that you can get started on

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Creating Your Self-Published Photobook with Karen Davis (Online)

In this workshop, you will be guided through the conception, creation, and completion of your photobook (via a print-on-demand (POD) self-publishing platform.) You will also receive information on other options for publishing your book.

In preparing for this course, you will determine the subject of your photobook and identify some of the images you expect to include and possible text.

To begin, we will examine a book's structure and see examples of classic and contemporary photobooks. Through presentations, discussions, critiques, and assignments, you will work to refine your idea

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Creative Exploration: Failing in Order to Succeed with Anne Eder (Online)

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

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