Events

A Yellow Rose Project founders and participants invite you to join us for a one-day, in-person workshop at the Griffin Museum, where you will harness light and material to create unique photographic prints using the lumen print technique and the 19th Amendment as inspiration for subject matter.

Two weeks prior to the workshop participants will receive an invitation email with warm up writing prompts as well as directives to thoughtfully gather personal objects to make one of a kind prints.

On the day, you will be given a short lecture on A Yellow Rose Project and we will talk about

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to have Boston based photographer Lou Jones in Winchester to talk about his expansive opus on the African continent, the PanAFRICAProject.

Man sitting at a restaurant in Katutura, NamibiaHerero tribe woman sitting in the shade in Epukiro, NamibiaWorkers with a truck carrying Okoume plywoodLiving room of small family home within Kibera slum. Kibera, KenyaNewspapers running through a printing press at The Namibian in Windhoek, NamibiaFemale factory worker cutting steel wire in Matsapha, Eswatini/SwazilandWomen hand weaving a rug. Piggs Peak, Eswatini

About the

This evening is all about you, our members, whose passion and support make everything we do possible. Our Members Mingle is about connecting with fellow photography enthusiasts, sharing your inspiration, and participating in the vibrant energy that makes the Griffin Museum such a special place. And what better way to celebrate you than being with other members and seeing the work of our Manifest Destiny exhibition! This is an opportunity for all of our featured artists to have a moment to take in the exhibition and meet each other.

Eat, drink and be merry! Get ready for an evening of

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.

© Suzanne Gainer© Lidia Russell© Cynthia W. Smith

Join us Saturday March 28th from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group. Engage

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 Saturday 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.

© Sasha Knittel© Silke HaseSean Sullivan© Bill Chapman

Join us Saturday May 23rd from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group

Join us for an informal walk through of the as Above so Below exhibition with artists Melinda Hurst Frye and Jessica Hays.

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, Boston.

© Melinda Hurst Frye, Ghost Pipes

© Jessica Hayes

Meet on Friday March 6th at Griffin @ Lafayette at 3.30pm to meet the artists and learn more about the work on the walls in Downtown Boston.

Melinda Hurst Frye's work embodies close observation and

Join us at the Griffin Museum for an afternoon presentation with photographers Jessica Hays and Melinda Hurst Frye as they discuss their current exhibition and the ideas shaping their work.

Bringing together two distinct photographic practices, as Above so Below explores the vision and questions around land use, stewardship, and shared resources. Hayes and Frye consider how we inhabit the landscape -- how land holds memory, labor, extraction, care, and consequence. Through their individual approaches, they reflect on the ways environments are shaped by human presence and policy, and how

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome celebrated photographer Henry Horenstein for an unforgettable in-person evening of stories, images, and film.

Program Highlights:

- Artist Talk & Book Presentation -- Celebrate the launch of Miles and Miles of Texas and the 20th anniversary reprint of Honky Tonk.- Film Screening -- Enjoy Spoke, a 20-minute short capturing the spirit of the open road and the communities Henry has encountered.

Miles and Miles of Texas is a personal nod to Lone Star culture, history, landscape, and most of all, the people I met along the way--'some of the

A special program led by A Yellow Rose Project artist Edie Bresler

A Yellow Rose Project participant, Edie Bresler, invites you to join us for a two-day, in-person workshop at the Griffin Museum, where you'll step into the luminous, blue-toned world of cyanotype printing. Whether you're a photographer, printmaker, or curious creative, this hands-on experience offers a unique opportunity to explore one of photography's oldest and most enchanting alternative processes.

Traditionally a lensless technique, cyanotypes use only chemistry, sunlight, and time. You'll learn how to coat paper

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome Boston-based photographer Neal Rantoul to Winchester for a special artist talk celebrating his latest book.

In this new publication, Neal Rantoul brings his luminous black-and-white photographs, created with an 8×10 view camera, to vivid new life. For more than two decades, he worked with the 8×10 format across the United States and Europe, producing a remarkable body of work distinguished by its precision, depth, and quiet intensity.

Beautifully printed and thoughtfully designed, the book features 100 photographs made from entirely new scans