Tuition: $700 / $600 members, $80 materials fee

This four-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. All of these pre-photographic drawing techniques are based on the manipulation of light, and they helped to reinforce the concepts that eventually led to the invention of photography.

Tuition: $700/600 for members, $90 materials fee

Do you love the flaws you see in many contemporary tintypes and wish you could make images with those unique markings? For some, these distressed tintypes follow the Japanese wabi-sabi concept of accepting imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness.

In this three-day workshop, participants will attend several illustrated lectures on the evolution of the photographic process from its beginnings in the 1830s through the digital age. We’ll include the major photographic processes used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each lecture class will be followed by viewing notable examples of prints and plates by the masters of photography from the museum’s photography collection.

A selection of music will be performed on the Aeolian pipe organ in the historic mansion.

Students from the Eastman School of Music will perform a recital in the historic mansion.

Roc City Ringers handbell choir will perform a selection of music in the mansion.

A selection of music will be performed on the Aeolian pipe organ in the historic mansion.

Roxanne Ziegler will perform with ten harpists in the mansion.

Students from the Eastman Community Music School will perform a recital in the historic mansion.