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WSM is excited to be a partner in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture, a new exhibit-based history and culture destination in downtown Ithaca. Read more ...

On June 6th, 2017, the Tompkins County Legislature voted unanimously to approve the purchase of the Tompkins Trust Co. building as a home for The History Center, Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation, Community Arts Partnership, Dorothy Cotton Institute, Wharton Studio Museum and other nonprofits, as well as the Convention & Visitors Bureau. The TCHC is slated to open in early 2019. WSM thanks all project partners who worked very hard for the past year to get this venture launched. And thank you to the County Legislature for its support.

09 Aug

WSM’s 3rd Annual Party for the Park – Sept. 15!

It’s time for our 3rd Annual Party for the Park! Join Wharton Studio Museum and Friends of Stewart Park for a fun evening by the lake in Stewart Park,
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09 Aug

WSM Headphone Walking-play with The Cherry Arts – Aug. 31-Sept. 9 – News Update

Join WSM and our friends at The Cherry Arts for the theater’s premiere production of the 2018/19 season! The Missing Chapter by Katie Marks & Aoise Stratford
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21 Jul

WSM’s 8th Annual Silent Movie Under The Stars – Aug. 25

Join us Saturday, August 25th, 2018 at Taughannock Falls State Park for WSM’s 8th annual Silent Movie Under the Stars! This year we’re celebrating Ithaca’s
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28 Jun

Spotlight On a Local Student Film!

WSM 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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The Wharton Studio Museum, under the intrepid leadership of Diana Riesman, has been a wonderful addition to Ithaca’s vibrant film scene, shining a light on the city’s fascinating silent film history. In addition to all the events and exhibits that WSM has presented to draw attention to this history, it has also regularly partnered with Cornell Cinema in the presentation of silent films with live musical accompaniment, with the mutual goal of introducing new audiences to the richness of the genre.
Mary Fessenden, Director, Cornell Cinema
Ted and Leo Wharton were leading players in the exciting story of silent cinema in the 1910s. The remarkable work of the Wharton Studio Museum has been instrumental in making that story known and keeping it alive more than a century later. Film scholars and cinema enthusiasts alike are in the debt of WSM and its executive director Diana Riesman.
Barbara Tepa Lupack, New York State Historian and Public Scholar (2015-2018) & Fellow, Rockwell Center for American Visual Culture

UPCOMING EVENTS AND EXHIBITS

8th Annual Silent Movie Under the Stars

WSM Headphone Walking-play with The Cherry Arts

WSM’s and Friends of Stewart Park’s Party for the Park 2018

WSM to have home in new Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Commons in ’19!

Annual Events

Silent Movie Under the Stars - every August

Silent Movie Month - every October

Silents Roar! Film Festival - every Spring

WSM's and Friends of Stewart Park's Party for the Park - every September

Take a Wharton Studio Silent Film Tour

IN THE NEWS

WSM’s 3rd Annual Party for the Park – Sept. 15!

WSM Headphone Walking-play with The Cherry Arts – Aug. 31-Sept. 9 – News Update

WSM’s 8th Annual Silent Movie Under The Stars – Aug. 25

Spotlight On a Local Student Film!

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