Leaving a Legacy - Griffin Museum of Photography Skip to primary navigation Skip to footer Leaving a Legacy If the Griffin Museum of Photography has played a role in your past, play a role in its future through planned and endowed gifts. Please join the Griffin Museum of Photography and work with us to fulfill a lifetime philanthropic ambition and provide financial benefits for years to come. Have you wanted to support the Griffin yet your current financial situation holds you back? Gifts made through our donors’ estates have made a difference in our mission. An estate gift is a way to create a legacy and continue your support after your lifetime. A bequest or other estate gifts, like life insurance policies and retirement plan accounts, will make a lasting impact on the Griffin Museum. Benefits of Partnering with the Griffin Museum The benefits of partnering with the Griffin Museum in a planned or endowed gift include: Permanence: your gift will keep giving. An endowment named by a donor to the Griffin Museum joins a permanent bank of endowed funds at the Museum—a philanthropic investment in the art of photography and the cultural life of our community. Commemoration or Anonymity: gifts can honor a loved one or associate, or kept anonymous. The Griffin Museum honors and protects your preferences. Such funds may be increased at any time by additional gifts. Tax Advantage: contributions may ease your tax burden and supply financial benefits. You may be able to increase the amount of your gift while achieving greater tax savings and income. Contributions to your endowment fund will qualify for maximum deductibility for income taxes. Experienced Investment Management: your fund will be professionally supervised. The Griffin Museum’s Finance Committee and its investment managers provide prudent stewardship of all donor funds. For more information, please contact the Executive Director or download the Leaving a Legacy Brochure at this link. 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Fill in your Artist Statement, Bio and upload up to 10 images. NOTE Sharing your contact information is in your hands. You can select to make your phone and email public or keep it private. Once you have updated your information, it sends a ping to museum staff to approve the images and text, and your page will then be listed on the public website. The museum reserves the right to refuse content that is offensive, harmful, or divisive. Images that include graphic, explicit, or politically divisive content will not be approved. Please ensure all submitted images and text are appropriate for a public audience. Member Directory Form for adding and editing members to the member directory Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place. This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest. Artistic Purpose/Intent Artistic Purpose/Intent Tricia Gahagan Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths about the world and about one’s self. John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers; it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can explore the human condition. Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something greater to share with the world. Fran Forman RSVP