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Photoville Pop Up | Winchester

We are thrilled to bring Photoville back to Winchester this summer for a pop up public installation! Creating a photographic walking trail around Judkin’s Pond, where the Griffin Museum is located, the Pop Up is a public photo installation showcasing national, international and New England artists. This year we also bring sidewalk art to downtown Winchester, featuring contemporary New England based photographic artists and featured images from the Arthur Griffin archives. The Griffin Museum is pleased to partner with Photoville and the Winchester Cultural District to bring this Pop Up to Winchester, featuring 13 installations in photographic partnerships with the United Nations, Atlantic Magazine and Leica Camera USA, featuring the creativity and community of women and BIPOC artists alongside our local New England Photographic Community, highlighting the people and communities they inhabit.

America's Pastimes

America loves baseball, the boys of summer and our days in the sun. This exhibition features the timeless photography created by Winchester native Arthur Griffin, out of his archives housed at the Griffin Museum. Images of the Boston Braves, Red Sox and the crowds that celebrate the wins and losses of their favorite teams.

Touchstone Show

The Touchstones project is a visual conversation between artists Sal Taylor Kydd and Dawn Surratt. This project explores themes of connection, isolation and loss as well as adaptability and creativity as the world has been challenged with a life threatening pandemic. Both artists live on the East coast, separated by two thousand miles in physical terms, but less than a minute in the virtual sense. Through a series of photographic diptychs and poems, the work has evolved as a call and response, as they each responded to the other’s work, pairing photographs and writing, building on the foundation of trust and understanding that continues to grow between the two artists.

Passing through Show

The relationship between the light that enters my house and that which shines on surrounding landscapes is my inspiration. Morning washes across my bedroom wall as the sun rises above nearby pines and oaks. At dusk, my hallway glows crimson and orange while nearby pine needles float on still water. Using the diptych format, I create small meditations about my home and the world around my home by seeking connections of light and color; inside and outside; concrete and abstract. Though I began my series in 2019, the ongoing pandemic has imbued my images with new meaning. Like many others, I spend more time alone, more time at home, and more time with the places and people I care about.

28th Annual Members Juried Show

The results are in! Over 2,000 images were submitted to our jurors Frances Jakubek and Iaritza Menjivar, and narrowed to 60. Thank you to everyone in our Griffin artist community who submitted images, making this jurying process so difficult. We are thrilled to showcase this years artists as part of our larger creative artists community.

NEW DATES Kids’ Photography Workshop – ages 9 – 12 mornings Aug 22 – 25

This will be an exploratory and fun class geared toward children age 9 – 12 (approximately grades 4 – 6). For one week we’ll explore the world through the camera’s lens together. In this class, we’ll use fun activities to learn about creative camera settings, composition, lighting and shadows, and posing. We’ll do some street photography, fun ‘trick’ photography, portraits, documentary style photography and talk about the fundamentals of image creation using an exercise with cyanotype fabric. One day will be spent exploring nearby Wright Locke Farm as part of our documentary lesson. On the final day, families are invited back in the evening for a presentation of the student’s images plus s’mores on the terrace!

December '41 with Author William Martin

William Martin, who has entertained the Jenks Senior Center many times, will introduce his newest novel, this year's big page-turner, DECEMBER '41. It’s a World War II thriller that begins on the day after Pearl Harbor, when a German agent evades an FBI dragnet in Los Angeles and heads for Washington. His assignment? To kill Franklin Roosevelt on Christmas Eve as he lights the National Christmas tree. Martin - the award-winning New York times bestselling author of twelve novels, book reviews, magazine articles, TV documentaries, and a cult-classic horror film, too - will discuss the historical context of that fateful month. He'll bring a lost era to life and introduce us to some of the featured players, like FDR and Churchill. Sponsored by a generous grant from the John and Mary Murphy Educational Foundation.

Gail Samuelson – Passing Through | Online Artist Talk

Please join us for a creative conversation with artist Gail Samuelson online in the Griffin Zoom Room on Tuesday August 23rd at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific. Her series, Passing Through is on the walls of the Griffin until September 4, 2022. Register for this engaging conversation below. https://members.griffinmuseum.org/events/register.aspx?id=1651859&itemid=be4c0883-8b4a-4b72-aa43-972d6e0292ee Not a Member? See what benefits are available to Griffin Museum members here: https://members.griffinmuseum.org/page/join-now

Gail Samuelson – Passing Through | Online Artist Talk

Please join us for a creative conversation with artist Gail Samuelson online in the Griffin Zoom Room on Tuesday August 23rd at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific. Her series, Passing Through is on the walls of the Griffin until September 4, 2022. This event is FREE to members, $10 for Non Members. Register for this engaging conversation below. Not a Member? See what benefits are available to Griffin Museum members here. https://members.griffinmuseum.org/page/join-now

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