ABOUT USWharton Studio Museum is preserving and celebrating Ithaca's role in early American filmmaking, and developing the historic Wharton Studio building in Stewart Park into a park center with exhibits and installations about film history and the history of the park.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE DOING
EVENTS AND EXHIBITSWharton Studio Museum produces four annual events -- Silent Movie Under the Stars (August); Silent Movie Month (October); Silents Roar! Film Festival (spring); and Party for the Park (September, in collaboration with Friends of Stewart Park) -- in addition to other screenings, presentations and exhibits throughout the year. View our Calendar of Events and Exhibits for full details.
EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
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WAYS TO SUPPORTUPCOMING EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
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20 Apr, 19UpcomingWharton Studio Museum is pleased to announce it’s 2nd Silents Roar! Film Festival!
Wharton Studio Museum is pleased to announce it's 2nd Silents Roar! Film Festival! This silent short-film fest is for youth…
WSM has created a Wharton Studio Silent Film Tour. This self-guided tour takes you to a number of Ithaca’s silent movie history locations, beginning with the historic Wharton Studio building in Stewart Park and on to Cornell University’s campus and then on to Upper Treman! It’s fun and informative! WSM thanks Randi Kepecs for her help in producing the tour.
IN THE NEWS
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Feb
WSM to install exhibit in new Tompkins Center for History & Culture opening in downtown Ithaca Spring ’19
Read moreWSM, a partner in the new Tompkins Center for History & Culture (TCHC) on the Commons, is excited to be working with our design
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Nov
NY State Senator Tom O’Mara announces grant funding
Read moreOn October 18th, 2018, NY State Senator Tom O’Mara announced grant funding to Wharton Studio Museum and Friends of Stewart Park and presented WSM
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20
Sep
October is Silent Movie Month!
Read moreA month-long celebration of silent film and Ithaca’s role in early movie making history, October 2018 is shaping up to be WSM’s best Silent
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Aug
WSM and Wharton Studio history were recently featured in the Ithaca Times (8/15/18 issue)
Read moreWSM and Wharton Studio history were recently featured in the Ithaca Times (8/15/18 issue): Ithaca’s Cinematic Past: Ithaca spots that were seen, not heard, in film
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20
Aug
WSM to have home in new Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Commons in ’19!
Read moreWSM is excited to be a partner in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture, a new exhibit-based history and culture destination in downtown Ithaca.
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Aug
Spotlight On a Local Student Film!
Read moreWSM is pleased to be in contact with the video production program at New Roots Charter School. As a nonprofit education organization with a provisional
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May
Wharton, Inc. Studio History Featured in Southern Tier Welcome Center on I-81
Read moreIthaca’s movie history is featured in the new Southern Tier Welcome Center in Kirkwood on Interstate 81 which officially re-opened in early October 2017 after a large-scale renovation! Over the summer, WSM
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May
WSM Awarded Tompkins County New Tourism Initiatives Grant!
Read moreOn May 1st, 2018, WSM was awarded a New Tourism Initiatives Grant ($5,000) from Tompkins County Tourism Program to develop a Wharton Studio Era