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Atelier II Open House with Mary Beth Meehan (Online)

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

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August 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 Irene Reti, Natalia Drachinskaya, Leah Abrahams and Ruth Broyde Sharone, Brad Hamilton, Lucia Ravens, Steve Goldband and Ellen Konar, Nancy Farese, Ellen Feldman, and Regina Anzenberger.

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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

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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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Between Strangers: A Street Photography Intensive with Harvey Stein (Online)

Street life offers boundless opportunities to create vital, compelling photographs. Street photography remains one of the most dynamic and accessible forms of contemporary image-making, where chance encounters and observation reveal stories hidden in plain sight.

Join Harvey Stein and the Griffin Museum of Photography for a dynamic, small-cohort online intensive. With more than 50 years of experience photographing public life, and decades of teaching street photography, Stein brings a mentorship-driven approach rooted in curiosity, craft, and personal expression.

The workshop includes

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Constructed Imagery: AI & Photoshop with Fran Forman (Online)

The Griffin Museum, in collaboration with Fran Forman, is excited to present this online workshop, which introduces a process for creating new imagery through a combination of photography, Photoshop, and AI programs.

If you're interested in creating imaginative, constructed images using both photographic sources and AI tools, this class is for you. We won't be aiming for realism, nor will we call these works photographs in the traditional sense. Instead, we'll explore image-making as a collaboration between your camera, your imagination, Photoshop, and AI platforms such as MidJourney

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Creating Digital Negatives with Jill Enfield (Online)

The Griffin Museum, in collaboration with Jill Enfield, is excited to present this online workshop, which introduces a process for creating digital negatives.

To make successful Platinum/Palladium prints, you need a negative that matches the size and tonal range of your final image. Unless you are working with a large-format camera, this means learning how to create precise, calibrated digital negatives, often the most challenging step in the process. In this live virtual workshop, Jill will guide you through the complete workflow for creating digital negatives for Platinum/Palladium

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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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Cyanotypes & Gold with Marcy Palmer (Online)

This class is now sold out. If you would like to be placed on the waitlist, please email Yana Nosenko at programs@griffinmuseum.org
Elevate your cyanotype work in this hands-on workshop exploring alternative approaches to the process. Students will experiment with gold leaf or imitation leaf, metallic paint, powder, and wax to enhance and transform cyanotype prints. Through demonstrations and guided practice, we will explore various application techniques, paper and media choices, and how the integration of metal and cyanotype can shape the meaning and visual impact of a work.

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Daytime Section for Adobe Photoshop: Personal Vision with Sue Anne Hodges (Online)

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Once you've learned the basics of Photoshop, the creative possibilities become endless. This workshop is designed to help you explore your interests with the goal of discovering and developing your personal vision. Whether you're still searching for your own style or already working toward a portfolio, the class exercises and group feedback will support you in taking your work to the next level.

By applying your Photoshop skills to both structured assignments and your own project, you'll gain technical confidence and deepen your creative approach. Class time will

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Daytime Section for 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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