Giving Tuesday

This holiday season, give a gift that helps make noise about silent film!

Your gift makes our mission possible. You can inspire a young filmmaker, bring silent film history into schools, or light up a wall with moving pictures through your Giving Tuesday gift. Find the gift that suits you or someone you love, and let Wharton Studio Museum transform your generosity into action.

Build a Website

Race Films Race Matters

Your gift builds Finger Lakes Film Trail’s first website and online home for FLFT’s new and timely online series Race Films/Race Matters: Starting Conversations About Race in America launching this December. Help develop the infrastructure through which communities across the country can explore race dynamics today through the lens of films.

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Make Noise About a Silent Film Screening

Your gift brings a Silent Movie Month screening of a silent film to a wide audience by covering the licensing rights for the movie.  Our Silent Movie Month Weekend Matinees at Cinemapolis are popular for all ages!

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Inspire an Aspiring Filmmaker

Silents Roar 1st Prize Winners

Your gift will supply fest prizes including trophies and gift cards towards film equipment, encouraging and inspiring the next generation of student filmmakers who take part in WSM’s annual Silents Roar! Film Festival .

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Moving Picture Projection

Your gift towards a projector will bring projection of silent films to WSM’s permanent exhibit in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture, enhancing each visitor’s experience as they explore Ithaca’s Wharton Studio and its role in early filmmaking.

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Educational Reach and Teach

Your gift brings film education into local schools and community centers by investing in the materials needed to introduce Ithaca City School District, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and TC3 students, to Ithaca’s rich silent film history laying the groundwork for a lifelong love of film and history.

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Empower an Intern

Rock your nonprofit. Your gift gives WSM the power take on interms who we directly involve in all facets of our organization from historical research to event planning to exhibit installation, and compensate them!

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Thank you so much for making a Giving Tuesday gift to Wharton Studio Museum.

This national day of giving celebrates the important and wonderful work thousands of nonprofits do for the arts, education, health, and social action. WSM is truly grateful for your generous support. Your gift makes a difference.