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The following was submitted by the Griffin Museum of Photography:
The Griffin Museum of Photography will have the following exhibits ongoing from the end of May through the end of July. Check the individual exhibits below for more information.
EXHIBITS AT A GLANCE
On view: May 29 – June 7, with a reception on June 2, from 5-7 p.m.
On view: June 12 - July 26, with a reception on June 27, from 4-6 p.m.
Online Artist Talks 1: June 17- 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Cassidy Thurber: I Want the Sun to Shine Down on You
On view: May 29 – July 26
Caleb Cain Marcus: A Thousand Rectangles: On Design and the Expression of Art
On view: May 29 – July 26
16th Annual Photobook Exhibition
On view: June 14 - July 19
Reception and Artist Talks: TBD
On view: June 14 - July 19
Reception and Artist Talks: TBD
On view: May 29 – July 26
Artist Talks: TBD
Satellite Location: Griffin Museum @WinCam
On View: June 16 – Sept. 1
Artist Reception: TBD
EXHIBITS
Photosynthesis XXI
Photosynthesis is an annual collaboration between Burlington High School and Winchester High School facilitated by the Griffin Museum of Photography.
This five-month program connects high school students with each other and with professional photographers, artists, and curators. Using photography as a visual language, students increase their vocabulary to communicate about themselves and the world around them.
Interacting with fellow students from different programs, backgrounds, and schools, the students create a capsule of who they are in this moment, learning from each other to create a united exhibition showcasing all they have learned during the program.
Atelier 40
Main Gallery
Griffin Museum is excited to present the work of this year’s Atelier artists, ranging from emerging to advanced photographers, as part of their year-long portfolio and project-building course taught by Emily Belz and Jennifer McClure.
Participants in Atelier engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave improved skills, such as a better understanding of the industry, the ability to edit and sequence their work, marketing materials, book publishing, among others.
Caleb Cain Marcus: A Thousand Rectangles: On Design and the Expression of Art
Atelier Gallery
The Griffin Museum is honored to showcase the work of Caleb Cain Marcus, the creative director of Luminosity Lab
A book is constructed from a series of decisions about systems and concepts that arise from the rational and intuitive mind.
These decisions are presented as a visual and material language that responds to the content and can evoke emotions strong enough to cause books to be banned and burned.
This exhibition explores the source of the book’s power, beauty and magnetism through a series of interventions, deconstruction and isolation. These actions remove the book from its intended presentation to foster new relationships and understandings of what a book is.
Cassidy Thurber: I Want the Sun to Shine Down on You
Griffin Gallery
The Griffin Museum is pleased to announce Cassidy Thurber as the winner of the 2025 Carolyn Harder Scholarship. We are excited to showcase Thurber’s body of work “I Want the Sun to Shine Down on You” in our Griffin Library from May 29 to July 26.
“Growing up, I was a kid who feared the weekends, Christmas and school vacations. Always being picked on for living in a trailer and wearing Walmart shoes. Being the oldest of five (scattered across three homes) also meant that I was the one to hold my siblings’ hands while growing from a ground planted with dysfunctional seeds.
“In my adulthood, I find myself still a sister, beginning to understand how different my experience of family and home was from most others’. Making photographs of my loved ones has become the way I tend to the garden that we’ve grown. It is in this way that I can process and digest these experiences; A way to insert myself; to seek understanding. I am inspired by the little things that help shape us from children to adults. My photographs are not only personal; instead, an invitation for others to reflect on their own experience
“I hope you can remember these moments — both painful and beautiful — and feel those memories alongside me.” — Cassidy Thurber
Self-Published Photobooks
Griffin Library
The Griffin Museum recognizes the importance of the photobooks. Self-Published Photobook celebrates the unique experience of viewing the photobook, or its ability to transcend the digital realm, offering a tangible and deeply personal experience.
Our 16th Annual (Self Published) Photobook is juried by Karen Davis, curator and co-owner of Davis Orton Gallery, and Crista Dix, executive director of the Griffin Museum.
Homemade Photobook
Atelier
The handmade photobook utilizes bookmaking to craft a narrative. The book becomes more than simply a vessel to show artwork; instead, the book becomes art itself.
The Griffin Museum is thrilled to have Caleb Cain Marcus, founder of Luminosity Lab, as our juror for this exhibition. He partners with museums, publishers, curators, and artists to develop creative strategies that translate their ideas, scholarship and exhibitions into lasting publications that build reputation and cultural significance.
Vision(ary): Raising Our Voices
Public Art Project
Vision(ary) is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s annual summer public art exhibition dedicated to the art of visual storytelling.
This public art installation features individual exhibitions with distinct photographic styles, including banners hung on light standards and art installations around the Griffin Museum.
The Griffin Museum of Photography is excited to announce juror Elizabeth Krist, a senior photo editor with National Geographic magazine for over 20 years, and is a founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective. She is on the boards of Women Photograph and the W. Eugene Smith Fund, advises the Eddie Adams Workshop and Apple, and is a contributing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review.
Visit the Griffin
The Griffin Museum of Photography is open Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The museum is closed on Monday.
General admission is $9 for adults; $5 for seniors. Members, Winchester residents, and children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free to all every Thursday, 2 to 4 p.m.
About the Griffin Museum
The Griffin Museum of Photography was founded in 1992 to provide a forum for the exhibition of both historic and contemporary photography.
The Museum houses four galleries dedicated to the exploration of photographic arts: The Main Gallery, which features rotating exhibits from some of the world’s leading photographers, the Atelier Gallery and Griffin Gallery dedicated to showcasing the works of prominent, up-and-coming artists.
The Griffin is also home to the extensive archives of museum founder and world-renowned photojournalist Arthur Griffin shown in our Founder’s Gallery. The Griffin Museum of Photography also maintains two additional satellite galleries: Lafayette City Center Passageway in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, in Winchester @WinCam at Winchester Community Access and Media.
For more on the Griffin Museum of Photography, visit www.griffinmuseum.org or call 781-729-1158.
