A Yellow Rose Book Launch

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We are honored and thrilled to host A Yellow Rose Book Launch event featuring editors Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek.  Join us on Thursday, March 12, 7:30 pm at LACP headquarters for a public artist talk and book signing, introducing the conceptual and historical underpinnings of  A Yellow Rose Project.

A Yellow Rose Project is a collaborative initiative uniting over 100 women photographers from across the United States. Each artist was invited to create work in response, reflection, or reaction to the centennial of the 19th Amendment, a piece of legislation that expanded but did not guarantee voting rights for all women. The resulting collection is both a celebration and a critique, weaving together diverse voices to reflect on equity, representation, and democracy in today’s world.

A Yellow Rose Project: Responses, Reflections, and Reactions to the Nineteenth Amendment, editors Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek have invited 106 female photographers to look back upon this part of history from various perspectives. The goal of this collaboration is to provide a focal point and physical platform for female image makers in light of the centennial, providing an artistic bridge connecting the past, present, and future. One image and statement from each of the 106 participants, including a collaborative work and five essays by female scholars, such as Lisa Volpe, curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Shannon Perich, curator in the photographic history collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History; Christina Bejarano, professor of political science at Texas Woman’s University; and Rachel Michelle Gunter, public historian, this work affords readers a multifaceted perspective, celebrating progress made and assessing all that remains to be done.

Frances Jakubek is an image-maker, independent curator, and consultant for artists. She is the co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project, past Director of the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City, and past Associate Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.  

Recent curatorial appointments include Critical Mass, Southeast Center for Photography, Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child’s Play featuring works by Nancy Richards Farese, The Griffin Museum of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Save Art Space, and Photo District News. Jakubek’s personal practice explores the boundaries of private and personal space and the emotions that bind them. Her photographs have been exhibited at The Southern Contemporary Art Gallery in Charleston, SC; Filter Space; Chicago, IL; Camera Commons in Dover, NH; and The Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, MA. 

Meg Griffiths is an artist, educator, and the co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project. The wide arc of her work grapples with the various modes of domestic, cultural, and political engagement that structure female experience in the United States. Her inquiries are driven by a desire to capture, develop and share a closer understanding of (self-identifying) female subjects. Each project she creates, whether individual or collaborative, focused on the personal or the collective, are at heart about the intrinsic connection between self and other, between interiority and positionality, as much as kinship and community. 

Her work has traveled nationally as well as internationally and is placed in collections such as Center for Creative Photography, Capital One, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her book projects, both monographs and collaborative projects, have been acquired by various institutions around the country such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Library, Duke University Library, Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Research Institute to name a few. She currently lives in Denton, Texas where she is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Visual Arts Division at Texas Woman’s University. 

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Details

• Date: Thursday, March 12th, 2026, 7:30pm-9pm PST
• Free for LACP Members; $10 General Public
• Location: Downtown Los Angeles (LACP Headquarters) 2nd Floor, 252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
• Parking: Street parking, Public parking: Terasaki Budokan Recreation Center (paid, underground, just across the street from LACP) and Joe’s Auto Parks Parking, 330 Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (paid, surface).

If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.

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