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Talks, Special Events, Member Events | Exhibition Conversation: Edward Steichen and the Garden - POSTPONED
Live Music, Special Events | Garden Vibes: Kahlil Kwame Bell
Live Music, Special Events | Garden Vibes: Mosaic Foundation
Special Events, Member Events | George Eastman Award Ceremony & Gala - Octavia Spencer
Live Music, Special Events | Garden Vibes: Guabaza
Events for Sunday, June 7, 2026
Selections from the Collection
Flower City Arts Center: Studio 678 Photo Club 2025/2026
On view in the museum's community gallery, the Gallery Obscura are works by members of the 2025–2026 Studio 678 Photo Club at Flower City Arts Center, reflecting the students’ unique visions of the world. Students used 35mm film cameras, produced their black-and-white prints in a darkroom, and wrote poems to accompany their images.
Erica Baum: the bite in the ribbon—a paper show
Through the selection, manipulation, and reproduction of existing printed materials, Erica Baum creates a poetry of word and image that inspires close looking and close reading.
Selections from the Collection
Edward Steichen and the Garden
Over a professional life spanning seven decades, Edward Steichen (1879–1973) established himself as one of the most important figures in the history of photography. What is less known is that for much of that time, Steichen devoted himself to the nurturing of plants and gardens, an activity that sustained him and through which he developed ardently held beliefs regarding the relationship of art, nature, and creativity.
Paper Prints in Motion
Nitrate Picture Show: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2026 Nitrate Picture Show Gone with the Wind may be producer David O. Selznick’s most famous literary adaptation, but it is far from his only one. Selznick had a history of bringing classic books to the screen with such films as Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). Given this consistent return to literary source material, it is not surprising that he chose to adapt a boyhood favorite, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Nitrate Picture Show: Bellissima
2026 Nitrate Picture Show Bellissima was only Visconti’s third film as director, yet already a noticeable cynicism had settled in, particularly in regard to the “new realism.” His first film, Ossessione (1943), a gritty tale of adultery and murder shot on location among the provincial poor, is often cited as the earliest feature in the Neorealist style. Visconti then took things several steps further with La terra trema (1948), which renounced professional actors and could pass for a documentary were it not for the dramatic plot and political rhetoric.
