Flower City Arts Center's Photo Club programs have concluded for the 2024-2025 school year. We are so proud of the hard work and dedication of our students. We hope you are able to join us in supporting Rochester youth by visiting their exhibitions, volunteering your time, or donating by purchasing student photographs, books, or merch (link below).

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STUDIO 678: Photography & Writing Program

(Middle School)

Studio 678 is an after-school photography and writing program for 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students who attend school within the Rochester City School District. During this 30-session program, students will learn how to use a 35mm FILM camera, go on field trips to take photographs in the community, learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop, write poems and short stories based on their experiences and photographs, publish a collaborative book of photography and writing, and exhibit their photographs at location including the George Eastman Museum’s Gallery Obscura and City Hall’s Link Gallery.

Current Exhibitions:

Flower City Arts Center: Studio 678 Photo Club 2024/2025

George Eastman Museum's Gallery Obscura, March 15 - May 11, 2025

Frame by Frame, Photographs & Writing by Studio 678 Photo Club

City Hall's Link Gallery, April 7 - May 4, 2025

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HIGHSCHOOL PHOTO CLUB: Photography & Video Program

High School Photo Club is an after-school photography and video program for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th-grade students who attend school within the Rochester City School District. During this 28-session program, students will learn how to use a Digital Single-Lens Reflex camera, go on field trips to take photographs and videos in the community, learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, create collaborative movies, and showcase their photographs and movies at local galleries, including Flower City Arts Center’s Community Darkroom Gallery.

Current Exhibition:

New Visions, Photographs by Highschool Photo Club

Flower City Arts Center's Community Darkroom Gallery, May 2 - May 31, 2025

Flower City Arts Center's Photo Club Program is in its 27th consecutive year, as an after-school program for students from the Rochester City School District. These programs are free to the students because of the generosity of our many funders.

The six goals of Photo Club are to:

• Empower youth to express their vision and voice through photography and writing.

• Enable youth to build life skills such as self-confidence, perseverance, and problem-solving.

• Encourage youth to connect with the community via field trips to historical, cultural, college, urban/rural, and other settings.

• Enhance knowledge of core school subjects such as ratios when mixing chemistry and the use of fractions when cutting mats.

• Energize youth to work together in teams.

• Establish mentoring relationships with youth, over a 1 to 7 year period.

For more information, call 585-271-5920 or email photoyouthroc@rochesterarts.org.

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