George Eastman Museum Presents Creative Works by Student Artists in Flower City Arts Center’s Studio 678 Photo Club
Opening February 28 in museum’s community gallery, Gallery Obscura
Rochester, N.Y., February 19, 2026—Creative works by student artists who are a part of the Flower City Arts Center’s Studio 678 Photo Club 2025/2026 will be presented in the George Eastman Museum’s community gallery, Gallery Obscura, from February 28 through June 21, 2026. These photographs and texts are inspired by the students’ vision of the world around them.
Guided by program mentors and volunteers, twenty participants learned to use 35mm film cameras and produce their own black-and-white prints in the darkroom. Through this hands-on journey, students practice photography in the studio and throughout the Rochester community, taking full ownership of their creative process. Student artists practiced photography at local landmarks, and in community spaces, where they connected with people who shape their city. Trips included Lollypop Farm, Village Gate for street photography, and RocDog for a photo session with therapy dogs. Students also collaborated with local poets to compose poems to accompany their photographs. Studio 678 is the only program of its kind in the Rochester area.
Through the camera and creative writing, Studio 678 Photo Club student artists have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of their community and themselves. All of the projects in the program are designed to enhance knowledge of core school subjects, foster conceptual thinking skills, build confidence, and empower youth to express their vision and voice.
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Gallery Obscura exhibitions and programs generously sponsored by ESL.
About Flower City Arts Center’s Studio 678 Photo Club
Started in 1999 as an eight-week pilot project, Studio 678 Photo Club is now an annual twenty-five week after-school program, and in its twenty-seventh consecutive year. The program is offered free of charge to students in grades six through eight in the Rochester City School District.
About Gallery Obscura
The museum's community gallery, the Gallery Obscura, features exhibitions created or presented in collaboration with community institutions and school and youth programs, projects focused on Greater Rochester, and exhibitions from the collections that are thematically related to regional events or that support other museum initiatives and programming.
Exhibition Proposal Submissions
Please submit exhibition proposals for the Gallery Obscura to GalleryObscura@eastman.org. Proposals should briefly describe the project and include 6-10 sample images or links to moving media content. Because of the structure of exhibition scheduling, not all proposals can be considered. Single-artist and artist-organized exhibitions will not be considered.
About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 31,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books and archival materials related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. The museum is located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program, and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation’s graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. The George Eastman Museum is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. For more information, visit eastman.org.