We are so excited to announce that Flower City Arts Center has expanded its Photo Club program to include high school students! Applications for both programs have opened for the 2024-2025 school year. Take a look at the description and calendars below, we look forward to another great year!

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 basic 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.

Studio 678 Information & Calendar

Studio 678 Application

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.

Studio 678 students learn how to use a professional 35mm film camera, go on field trips in the community to take pictures, make their own black & white prints in the darkroom, write poems or stories to accompany their photographs, and create their own pages for the annual club book using Photoshop. Students also cut their own mats and frame a selection of their photographs for exhibition and second and third-year students complete special projects. At the conclusion of the year, all of the Studio 678 members have their photographs and writing displayed at The Link Gallery in City Hall with an opening reception and awards ceremony in City Council Chambers. A student-created movie featuring their photographs/spoken word set to music is shown, the finished book is released and club members are presented with certificates of achievement from community leaders. Over 200 parents, teachers, friends, funders, and community representatives are in attendance each year.

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HIGH SCHOOL 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 basic of Adobe Photoshop, and Premiere, create collaborative movies, and showcase their photographs and movies at local galleries including Flower City Arts Center’s Sunken Room Gallery.

High School Photo Club Information & Calendar

High School Photo Club Application

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

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