Education

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

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

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

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

Elevate your cyanotype work! This workshop will explore alternative methods for working with cyanotype prints using gold leaf or imitation leaf, gold metallic paint, powder, and wax. We will utilize various techniques for the application of these materials, explore paper and media choices, discuss how the combination of metal and cyanotype can affect the overall meaning of the work, look at examples of artists who have used these techniques and various media, and discuss how the materials have further communicated their ideas. Class sessions will include discussions of student work as well as

Making the transition from seeing an image on the screen to seeing it in print can be a challenge. To make a successful print takes more than knowing what buttons to push. After the initial instruction in basic color management and printer settings, students will explore how various controls affect the outcome and esthetic of the print. Training your eye to see and evaluate color through a series of technical exercises will be an important part of this class. Additional exercises will explore edge contrast and sharpness, and custom black and white printing. Students should be comfortable using

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

Offered as an extension to Storytelling Through Photography, this course will aim to help students delve deeper into developing a body of work, and understanding how to curate a photo series. Students will learn and discuss how to craft and compose meaningful images, and tell a compelling story through their photos. Please note that Storytelling Through Photography is not a pre-requisite course.The use of any camera that reflects your voice is encouraged -- equipment may include SLR's, DSLR's, point & shoot cameras, instant film or phones. DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, Oct 15, 22 and Monday, October

Do you know where you're going next with your photography -- or where it's taking you? This intensive, IN PERSON, weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world. It will also help photographers figure out their next step photographically--from deepening their own unique vision to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they're passionate about. This workshop is for passionate amateurs and professionals, for documentary photographers and fine art photographers, for photography students and seasoned photographers

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