Bruce Austin initiated and organized three international conferences on moving image preservation, access and use (Fast Rewind: The Archeology of Moving Images) and was organizer and curator for The American Arts & Crafts Movement in Western New York, 1900-1920, an exhibition with catalogue presented in the Bevier Gallery, 9 December 1991-22 January 1992. His academic writing has focused primarily on the audiences for theatrical motion pictures; he has been a writer and reporter for the monthly NY-PA Collector for more than 25 years and has written for a host of other publications including the Arts and Crafts Quarterly (now Style 1900) and Northeast Antiques Journal.