If you like camping, hiking, and large-format photography, this is the workshop for you.

SOLD OUT. The basics of making gelatin emulsion dry plates are covered in this fun and informative emulsion workshop for beginners. 

SOLD OUT. Building upon our basic gelatin emulsion workshops, this intermediate workshop takes emulsion making to the next level. 

SOLD OUT! The first photographic negative technique on glass, known as the Niepceotype, was also used to make the first photographic magic lantern transparencies, or hyalotypes. Albumen on glass photography was invented in 1847 and remains the highest resolution photographic process ever invented.

Learn the two most popular printing processes of the nineteenth century: salt and albumen.

Join us as we look into the earliest photographic printing processes dating from 1790 to 1841. We’ll use botanicals from the Eastman Museum gardens as well as lace, feathers, and even historic stained glass window fragments to sun print using several photographic processes invented before 1842.

SOLD OUT. This five-day hands-on negative workshop is for the experienced collodion ambrotypist or tintypist who wants to get to the next level.

This five-day course is the only public workshop in the world that teaches how to use a box camera obscura, a tent camera obscura, a camera lucida, a pantograph, and a physionotrace to produce landscape pencil drawings and cut silhouettes

New! This is an introductory workshop specifically for 20th- and 21st-century black-and-white chemical photographic technique.

SOLD OUT. Learn to make your own carbon tissues using pigments available at your local art supply store or online.

SOLD OUT. No photographic experience is required to attend, and you’ll leave with a 5×7″ tintype portrait made by an experienced tintypist and an information packet on how that plate was made.

SOLD OUT! Still want a unique after-hours experience? Check out our Cinema Memories event! 

Performance by the Laura Dubin Trio with introductions and commentary from Jack Garner.

Laura Dubin is a jazz pianist and composer. Her trio has performed at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.

Free to members; included w/ museum admissions

In conjunction with the exhibition Stories of Indian Cinema: Abandoned & Rescued, this two-part talk dives into fascinating rescue stories from across the museum over the past few years, including the restoration of Orson Welles’s lost film Too Much Johnson and the discovery of George Eastman’s bed.

Share popcorn and stories of your first cinema experience with other film lovers. Join Curatorial Assistant William Green for a conversation on Nandita Raman's exhibition Cinema Play House, and then go on a behind-the-scenes tour of the projection booth in the Dryden Theatre.

Performance by fivebyfive, a quintet based in Rochester, NY with a mission to engage audiences in the collaborative spirit and creativity of modern chamber music by commissioning, arranging and performing a wide range of works for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, bass and piano. 

The Eastman Museum has teamed up with Ray Ray Mitrano from WAYO Play for a live radio broadcast from the museum's Discovery Room, where there will be all-ages hands-on activities that explore projection with light and color inspired by the early color film clippings in the exhibition Dreaming in Color: The Davide Turconi Collection of Early Cinema.

Free to members; included w/ museum admission