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 […]

Saturday, October 17th 10:30am-12pm – Youth ages 9-16 If you love comic books and think you might like to create one of your own or, if you just want to know more about how they’re made, then this workshop is for you! Join comic book writer and video editor Michael Watson on Saturday, October 17th […]

Saturday, October 24th 3pm-4pm  There’s a new comic book called ITHAQA — a Lovecratian horror comic set against the backdrop of the Wharton Studio era — and you’re invited to the virtual launch party!  Meet ITHAQA’s creator/ writer Michael Watson and illustrator Theresa Chiechi — both are IC alums — and hear how this creative […]

Featuring THE FRESHMAN (1925) starring the inimitable Harold Lloyd In this year of the pandemic, and with concern for everyone’s safety and well-being, WSM is thrilled to bring you Silent Movie Under the Stars as a livestream produced by The State Theatre of Ithaca. With live music by Cloud Chamber Orchestra. As always the event begins at sundown […]

Join us Thursday, September 17th, 2020 from 6:30pm-7:45pm for Wharton Studio Museum’s and Friends of Stewart’s 5th annual benefit for Stewart Park revitalization. The night features musical performances, video segments on park history and park projects, cameos by Ithaca celebrities and…. a RAFFLE. All proceeds from the sale of raffle tickets will directly support the […]

Kudos to WSM’s wonderful colleague, author and historian Barbara Lupack, on her forthcoming cover story about the Wharton Studio in the summer issue of the New York Archives Magazine published by the NYS Archives Partnership Trust. You can find a short video recorded by Ms. Lupack at https://youtu.be/4aRyCNOSZE8 that is also featured on the New […]

WSM is thrilled to announce it has been loaned a beautiful wooden desk that once was a fixture in the Wharton Studio. Thanks to the generosity of Frank Howe and his family, this elaborately carved desk, used in numerous Wharton films, was purchased by Mr. Howe’s grandmother in the late nineteen teens when the Whartons […]