November 21-23 2025
653 Elmira Road, Ithaca NY 14850

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Klimaszewski’s show is a site-specific installation of historical tintype portraits.  They have been printed larger to make detail accessible and to enhance the presence of the characters depicted.  “George Robinson’s America c.1870” presents a cohesive selection of portraits originally created by anonymous photographers during the years 1860-1880.  The installation seeks to breathe life into the characters and community that existed in America during the early days of portrait photography.

Klimaszewski is an artist and a collector of all things photographic.  He has exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally.  His work has been recognized and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.  He has organized, curated, and juried shows in galleries and museums, including The Tarpon Springs National Arts and Crafts Show, and the Johnson Museum of Art.  This show is curated from his personal collection of tintype photographs.

“Farmers and Farmscapes” is an ongoing portrait series of Finger Lakes farmers and the land they steward. Through her original tintype photographs, Calabrese invites an open conversation about the realities of farming and our shared responsibility of caring for the land for future generations. Her project also highlights the importance of preserving endangered art forms through continued practice. 

Crystal Calabrese is an Ithaca-area artist who uses the historic wet-plate collodion process to document contemporary small-scale agriculture and our evolving relationship to the land. Working from her mobile darkroom, she mixes her own chemistry and creates handmade, direct-positive images on metal and glass plates. The tintypes in “Farmers and Farmscapes” were made with a ~120-year-old large-format Seneca Improved View Camera on 5” × 7” aluminum plates. Her project was supported by a grant from the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.