Party for the Park 2024
Join Wharton Studio Museum and Friends of Stewart Park for our 9th annual Party for the Park fundraiser! We’re celebrating our current Roaring 20s by bringing the party back to the Roaring 1920s when silent movies were all the cat’s meow, jazz was playing in secret clubs downtown, and Ithacans were gathering in their new public lakeside park. Come as you are, or if you’d like, wear a sparkly headband, flapper dress, or Great ...
Silent Movie Under the Stars 2024
Silent Movie Under the Stars 2024 The Mark of Zorro (1920) left its mark on everyone Saturday night for our 14th Silent Movie Under the Stars! The location at Upper Robert Treman State Park was lovely with trees all around the approximately 250 people nestled in to watch the film with a gorgeous original score performed by Cloud Chamber Orchestra — Robby Aceto, Peter Dodge, and Chris White — with special guest Damian Dodge on ...
Quiet on the Set! 2024 Winners
Quiet on the Set! Film Festival 2024 Winners This year's Screening & Awards Ceremony featured films from the Ithaca area and beyond—as far east as Hamilton, and as far south as Vestal & Whitney Point. Films will be posted on the Wharton Studio Museum (WSM) YouTube, stay tuned! (Filmmakers: if you don’t want your film up please let us know and we will remove it) 1st Place
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On the Company’s Dime
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Silent Movie Month 2023
In 2012, City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick proclaimed October in Ithaca as Silent Movie Month, a month-long celebration of silent film and Ithaca’s role in early movie making history produced by Wharton Studio Museum in collaboration with many local organizations. Join WSM each October for screenings, exhibits, and events at Cornell Cinema, Cinemapolis, and many other local venues. October 1-31 New Wharton Studio Museum Exhibit at the Tompkins Center for History and Culture WSM ...
Party for the Park 2023
Join us for Friends of Stewart Park and Wharton Studio Museum's 8th annual fundraiser for park revitalization on Saturday, September 23 from 6-8:30 PM in the Picnic Pavilion and outside by the Waterfront Trail and Cayuga Lake. We’re celebrating a groundbreaking year for Stewart Park with the literal imminent groundbreaking for the Splash Pad and seasonal restroom, plus the upcoming Picnic Pavilion Addition. The addition paves the way for the Wharton Studio & Café. There ...
Quiet on the Set! Film Festival– It’s a Wrap for 2022
Quiet on the Set! was a roaring success on the afternoon of June 4th at Cinemapolis, with an enthusiastic audience cheering on the fourteen wonderful films by thirteen to eighteen year-olds from throughout the Southern Tier. Thank you to festival Presenting Sponsor, the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, for its generous support! Here are the winners: 1st Prize -- "You've Done It This Time" by Marcella W. from Tompkins County. At ...
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.
