Welcome to The Griffith Center

Will Griffith established The Griffith Center in 2008, to protect his work, to advance his creative vision
and to promote the causes he cared about. Serving as the first director of The Center, he established an initial mandate
of furthering the fight against censorship of erotic art, as well as protection of free expression in painting, sculpture,
music, theater and film. He added the second mandate of supporting human rights causes and
peace building around the world, believing art can be the driving force toward these ends.

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We have the power and the will to define our lives as we travel it. It is a course we alone are empowered to chart. Others will attempt to chart your journey for you, steering your ship in a direction more to their perception of how your life should be. Take back the wheel and throw those people overboard. Sail alone if you must...but sail according your own compass.
-Will Griffith

Art is a reflection of the artist's soul. It is a reflection of the artist, rather than a depiction of what we see on the surface. It penetrates the senses and turns reality upside down, revealing that often what we see is an illusion. The substance of life surfaces from places we simply can not see, but feel.
-Will Griffith

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DALLAS BIANCHI
Director & Curator

My critics can be cruel, but their affect is minor compared to the satisfaction I get knowing I made them look. It is better to be noticed, criticized and not forgotten than for no one to notice and cross your path thinking you were simply mundane. One thing all of my critics have in common is that they looked and will never forget.
-Will Griffith

The challenges people face with regard to their past and their errors in life do not have to determine who they are today. The greatest definition of becoming better at living is through love and empathy for those who are not like us or may disagree with us. Love is the universal pathway to hope and to a better tomorrow for all of us.
-Will Griffith

One day I awoke and looked into the mirror and found that I no longer liked what I saw. So I painted the damn mirror a bright shade of yellow and called it art.
-Will Griffith

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.-Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

~Leonardo da Vinci

"Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night"
- Edgar Allen Poe

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
-Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all!
-Oscar Wilde

WILL GRIFFITH

MISSION STATEMENT OF

THE GRIFFITH CENTER

The Griffith Center is a non-profit organization established

in 2008 at the initiative of artist, founder

and human rights activist Will Griffith.

The Foundation's purposes: promotion of cultural exchange, support of international artists, as well as hosting exhibits of art from around the world. The Griffith Center is also devoted to human rights advocacy, social justice causes, defense of the integrity of free expression and fighting censorship in art.

The Griffith Center is also home of the art work of Will Griffith, including an archive of the Artist's writings and quotes.

Activities of The Griffith Center

Exhibition projects

One of the main areas of the Center's activity is the arrangement and conduct of exhibition projects featuring artwork of international artists. Many projects are implemented thanks to the volunteer staff of The Griffith Center.

Building Project

The Griffith Center is currently focused on its building project, which will house a collection of Will Griffith's works as well as a future museum of contemporary art, to feature works of international artists. A full catalogue of the Center's collection is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2010. The Museum is expected to open within the next five years.

Support of young artists

In 2009, The Griffith Center established its young artists' nomination "New Light Award", under the leadership of Alysyn Ayrica Bourque,

Director & Curator of the Center, in the context of young artists who devote their art to human rights and social justice themes. Every year, the Center will set up exhibitions of young artists, seeing them as a particularly important element of its overall activity and to the future of art and its impact on our world.

Literary projects

The Griffith Center has its own Poetry Club, Atelier Poétique, founded by poetess Alysyn Ayrica. She also serves as Poet-in-Residence of the Center. Apart from the sessions at which poets and writers hold their forum discussions and engage in an online worship environment, the Club is also organizing a variety of literary events.

The Griffith Center is founded on the principle that artists, writers, musicians and others can alleviate a vast array of our socio-political ills by taking an active role in international affairs. By empowering our global citizenship, we can empower others. By recognizing our responsibility to humanity as a tool for making our world better, we become better ourselves.