PAST EVENTS
Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA)’s Year of the Woman, sponsored by Eastman LA
Saturday, April 19, 2025
11:00 AM
Galerie XII
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite B2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
We are thrilled to sponsor a series of public talks organized by the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA), unfolding throughout 2025 and into 2026.
Year of the Woman will include public events celebrating notable women in photography. These talks will range from a discussion between women who have built significant photography collections to a panel on breakthrough women photobook creators, a conversation gathering a group of pioneering women gallerists, and a presentation by a celebrated photographer. Toward the end of 2025, there will be an online session with women in the essential roles of photography conservators. In early 2026, the program will bring together some of the nation's most influential photography curators.
The first panel discussion, Women Collectors, will take place on April 19 and feature a discussion with three women with different approaches to collecting and at different stages of their collecting journeys. Hosted by the esteemed photography dealer, Jennifer DeCarlo, we will welcome collectors Paula Ely, Alison Bryan Crowell, and Sarah Kissell. For more information about the event, visit PAC LA's event page.
Image Above: Bea Nettles. Triple Goddess, November 1969. Gelatin silver prints. George Eastman Museum, gift of the artist. © Bea Nettles.
William Kentridge’s complete Drawings for Projection (1989–2020)
Friday, February 21, 2025
1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, & 7:30 PM
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Join us for a special screening of William Kentridge’s complete Drawings for Projection at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Drawings for Projection, comprising eleven short films made from 1989 to 2020, is a touchstone of Kentridge’s prolific career. Usually projected in museums’ black-box rooms, this magnum opus—animated by his drawings on paper in charcoal and colored pencil and distinctive use of erasure—is even more powerful on the big screen.
Admission is free with RSVP.
Image Above: William Kentridge. Stereoscope, 1999. From the series Drawings for Projection. Frame enlargement from a 35mm polyester print. George Eastman Museum, gift of the artist.
Gone to Earth on Nitrate
Saturday, February 15, 2025
7:00 PM &
Sunday, February 16, 2025
3:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
As part of the American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival, we are pleased to have Gone to Earth, a nitrate print from the George Eastman Museum collection, a gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd., on view. The screenings will include an introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.
Hazel Woodus is a beautiful but innocent country girl who loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. She is given a rough time by her father but can escape to run barefoot through the woods when her harsh life gets too much for her. It is there that she is found by the local squire, Jack Reddin, finds her and is struck by her beauty. The obvious conflict develops when the squire leads the local hunt and tries to kill Hazel’s pet fox.
Portrait of Jennie on Nitrate
Friday, February 14, 2025
7:00 PM &
Sunday, February 16, 2025
7:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
As part of the American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival, we are pleased to have Portrait of Jennie, a nitrate print from the George Eastman Museum collection, a gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd., on view. The screenings will include an introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.
In Depression-era New York, painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) despairs at his lack of success. One cold winter evening in Central Park, he meets an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl, Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones), who captures his fancy when she asks him to wait for her to grow up. Soon after, Eben sells a sketch of Jennie to kindly art dealer Miss Spinny (Ethel Barrymore) and, as he meets the oddly mutable Jennie in fleeting moments, begins to realize they share a special destiny.