You continue to help WSM make noise about silent film and we are truly grateful! This coming Wednesday, June 23rd, you can do so again with a gift to WSM during Giving is Gorges, a day of supporting Tompkins County’s wonderful nonprofits, many of which WSM happily collaborates with!   Choose from three projects to support, or support […]

    WSM is thrilled to be hosting and producing Ithaca High School’s first official film festival. QUIET ON THE SET takes place Friday, May 22nd at 7pm over Zoom! Join us for the Screening & Awards Event featuring short silent films by students in Media Arts and announcement of the winners by our festival […]

Silents Roar! Film Festival for youth in the Southern Tier will not take place this year, but the fest will come back strong in 2022. Thank you to the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College for its support.

WSM is thrilled to be collaborating once again with Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, this time on a new multimedia installation in Wharton Studio Museum’s “exhibit tower” in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture in downtown Ithaca. WSM’s and CF+TC upcoming exhibit will focus on actress, dancer, and entrepreneur Irene Castle who worked for […]

On Saturday, March 6th, 2021, an Ithaca-based Girl Scout Troop took part in a fun and educational virtual event with author Anne Nesbet, who’s charming and exciting 2020 novel, Daring Darleen: Queen of the Screen, follows the adventures of twelve-year-old Darleen Darling, a star of the silent film era, who must defeat villains both on […]

  Giving Tuesday is December 1st and Wharton Studio Museum encourages you to support WSM’s programming and exciting plans to develop the historic Wharton Studio Building in Stewart Park. There are so many ways your gift to WSM will make a difference in what we are able to accomplish in 2021.  Help us make noise […]

WSM has received a grant from Humanities New York to develop an online series: “Race Films/Race Matters: Starting Conversations About Race in America.” The digital program presents five important race films and corresponding presentations about the films by scholars from Cornell University, Ithaca College, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, the George Eastman Museum, and Ithaca […]

Author Barbara Lupack’s Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema is in the news as Ms. Lupack has been invited to talk about the Whartons at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy, the world’s leading silent film festival, taking place from October 3-10th, 2020. The book, published by Cornell University Press […]