Events

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host and artist talk and reception for Matilde Simas's exhibition From Shadows to Light: A Global Journey Through the Aftermath of Trafficking, on view July 1 - September 27, 2026.

Please join us in-person on Saturday July 18th in downtown Boston at the Griffin @ Lafayette City Center to hear from the artist, followed by a reception to celebrate the exhibition.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy's, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host and artist talk and reception for Preston Gannaway's exhibition Remember Me, on view July 31 - September 6, 2026. Please join us in-person to hear from the artist, followed by a reception to celebrate the exhibition.

In Remember Me, Preston Gannaway photographs a New Hampshire boy, EJ, for over 20 years, following the death of his mother at the age of 4. The interplay of everyday details, landscapes and portraits work together to create an intimate longitudinal essay on time, loss and mortality.

© Preston Gannaway© Preston Gannaway© Preston

The Griffin Museum is pleased to announce a speaker series in partnership with Photographic Resource Center (PRC). Join us for a talk with artist Toni Pepe on March 5th at 6pm, online or in-person at Lesley University Hall. Following the talk, we invite you to continue the conversation at the PRC gallery from 7-8 PM for a casual social hour with the artist.

Toni Pepe creates prints and three-dimensional assemblages from discarded newspaper images, family snapshots, and obsolete photographic equipment, investigating how photography shapes our understanding of time, space, and self. Her

The Griffin Museum is pleased to present an online artist talk celebrating the talented students of this year's Atelier 2: Tony Attardo, Judith Donath, Dena Eber, Kay McCabe, Victor Rosansky, Gordon Saperia, Lillian Shen.

Under the guidance of instructor Traer Scott, this year-long course focused on portfolio development, critique, and conversations with professional mentors, book designers, gallerists, and editors.

Join us as the artists share their projects and creative journeys!

© Dena Eber© Gordon Saperia© Tony Attardo© Kay McCabe© Judith Donath© Lillian Shen© Tira Khan©

Join us online on August 4 at 6:30 pm ET to meet our new instructor, Mary Beth Meehan, learn more about the newly redesigned Photography Atelier II program, and ask any questions you may have!

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The Griffin Museum and Mary Beth Meehan are pleased to offer this advanced project development program for artists seeking to bring an existing body of work to the next level.

This advanced Atelier II is designed for intermediate to advanced photographers who already have a project in motion--an idea and passion they have begun to photograph--but who

Join us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Sunday morning with Crista Dix, Griffin Museum's Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.

© Audrey Gottlieb© Paul Gagnon© Silke Hase© Robert Atkins

Join us Sunday August 16th from 9.30am-12.30pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group

Join us ONLINE for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Sunday morning with Crista Dix, Griffin Museum's Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.

© Robert Atkins© Paul Gagnon© Sheri Lynn Behr© Nadine Levin

Join us Sunday August 9th from 11.30am-1.30pm for our round table peer-run portfolio

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

Join artist and educator Anne Eder for a captivating two-day summer workshop at the Griffin Museum, where art and nature converge. You'll learn to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographic images using 19th-century and contemporary cameraless techniques: anthotypes, lumen prints, and phytograms.

Join artist and educator Anne Eder for a captivating two-day spring workshop at the Griffin Museum, where art and nature converge. You'll learn to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographic images using contemporary cameraless techniques: lumen prints, and phytograms.

Harness the natural light sensitivity of plants to make striking, eco-friendly photographs -- no darkroom or toxic chemicals required. These poetic processes celebrate the organic beauty of impermanence, experimentation, and nature's hidden colors.

You'll explore:

-- Lumen Prints - surreal, color-shifting images