Caroline Yeager

Biography

Caroline Yeager is Associate Curator for Special Projects in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum. During her 26-year tenure, she taught Curatorial Administration in the Selznick School, developed and managed grants for the Moving Image Department and supervised special projects in the department such as the renovation of the Museum’s Dryden Theatre and the 15th Domitor Conference held at the Museum in 2018. She curated the exhibitions Hollywood Lost: The Power of Louise Brooks (2006), Reel Histories: Motion Pictures and the Civil War (2011) and Americana: Hollywood and the American Way of Life (2011). She acted as interim Dryden Theatre programmer for six months in 2014 and was an Assistant Director of the Nitrate Picture Show (2022–24). She is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and was co-chair of the Advocacy Committee for eleven years. She is a graduate of The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation (1998), Temple University (MFA 1975) and SUNY Brockport (BS 1972).