The Griffin Museum of Photography is thrilled to have the 26th Members Juried Exhibition upcoming this summer. Submissions will be accepted from February through May 3rd.
Alexa Dilworth is this years juror. Ms. Dilworth is the publishing director and senior editor at Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University, where she also directs the awards program which includes the CDS Documentary Esaay Prize in Writing and Photography and the Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and the DocX Lab. Hired as an editor of the CDS books program, Dilworth has coordinated the efforts of forthcoming book Road To MIdnight: A Civil War Memorial by Jessica Ingram; Where we Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922, edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris; Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation: Photographs by Lauren Pond; Reality Radio: Telling Stories in Sound, Second Edtion, edited by John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth; Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila: Photgraphs by Nadia Sablin
Dilworth has a BA and MA, both in english, from the University of Florida, and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Iowa's Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Alongside the juried exhibition, the Griffin Museum will organize a series of professional development workshops presented by a diverse range of thought leaders. These workshops will share instrumental ideas, methods and tools to help build the business and legal foundation of a thriving artistic practice.