Events

It is a pleasure to welcome Katherine French, Curator of the Sandman Legacy Project, to the Griffin Museum for an afternoon presentation on the works of Jo Sandman. Ms. French will speak about the decades long career and innovative creativity of Sandman, and the works on display in the exhibition, A Life in Art. Upon retirement as Director Emerita from the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham, MA, Katherine French moved to northern Vermont and is now curator for the Sandman Legacy Project helping to place work by the artist Jo Sandman in the permanent collection of museums across the country

We are thrilled to welcome the Korean Cultural Society of Boston for a special evening of culture, music and festivities as part of our New Horizons: Korean Contemporary Photography exhibition, on the walls of the Griffin until June 29, 2025.

The Griffin Museum is pleased to partner with Maine Media in presenting the 2024 Recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize Camille Farrah Lenain in an online conversation about her winning series, Made of Smokeless Fire. This work will be featured in an exhibition in Winchester at the Griffin opening December 13, 2024 running through January 8, 2025. © Camille Farrah Lenain

© Camille Farrah LenainBouchta, Marseille, 2022

© Camille Farrah LenainJoin photographer Camille Farrah Lenain, recipient of the 2024 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, online for an engaging

Join us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network, grow, ask questions and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Saturday morning with Crista Dix, Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity. © Bill Chapman, previous attendee of Member Networking day. Join us Sunday March 8th from 9.30am-12pm for our roundtable peer-run portfolio critique group

We are pleased to have Matthew Leifheit at the Griffin Museum for an in person presentation to discuss his ongoing project, Queer Archives. Join us on Thursday March 27th at 6.30pm in our Main Gallery for this special conversation as part of our ongoing exhibition, Nuclear Family

20 minutes for an introduction to you and your work goes by quickly. We'd like to see you put your best foot forward. This is a weekend workshop to support your strategy for success. As part of our New England Portfolio Reviews held in the fall, we offer this weekend workshop to help ease the pressure of the reviews. Whether you are a seasoned attendee, or if this is your first review, this workshop filled with information including the value of research, conversational practice and the confidence of your preperation will help you navigate the portfolio review world.

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Join us for a special conversation with the curator and artists of the exhibition New Horizons. Joanne Junga Yang will be in the museum with participating artists Soosik Lim and Sun Hi Zo. New Horizons: Korean Contemporary Photography provides an in-depth look at the artistic and intellectual currents shaping contemporary Korean photography. Through the works presented, audiences engage with the intersections of personal narratives and collective memory, shifting perspectives on identity and representation, and the evolving role of photography in illuminating both the visible and the unseen

The Griffin Museum is pleased to celebrate curator Joanne Junga Yang's vision of Korean Contemporary photography in a special artist reception with many of the artists featured from New Horizons. Join us Friday May 9th from 6 to 8pm to meet Joanne and the artists who have traveled from Korea to celebrate this unique view of culture and creativity. The works of Ok Hyun Ahn, Sung Jiyeon, Seongyoun Koo, Anna Lim, Hyundoo Park, Soosik Lim and Sun Hi Zo are on the walls until June 29, 2025. This exhibition examines the significance of Korean photography within the global discourse on photographic

Join us at the Griffin @ WinCam on Thursday June 5th for a special reception for Nick Ortoleva, showcasing his series, to you from seoul, on the walls of WinCam through June 28, 2025 Nick Ortoleva (b. Seoul, Korea) grew up in Central Massachusetts and currently resides in Boston. He received a BFA in Photography from MassArt (24'). Ortoleva uses the camera to shape a fragmented narrative that often reflects on personal experiences and relationships with the communities where he has found kinship. He frequently revisits stories passed down through family, as he continues to write a memoir of

© Bill Chapman, previous attendee of Member Networking day. Join us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network, grow, ask questions and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Saturday morning with Crista Dix, Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity. Join us Saturday November 16th from 9.30am-12pm for our roundtable peer-run portfolio critique