Join Wharton Studio Museum and Friends of Stewart Park at our 10th annual Party for the Park – our signature fundraiser – on Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 6:00-8:30 PM! This milestone celebration marks a decade of P4P and features a fun and festive “DECADEnce” theme. From the Fabulous Fifties to the Awesome Aughts, we […]

Live Score Silent Film Experience Snow White (1916) Accompanied by Leslie & Barbara McMichael Everyone knows Disney’s classic animated film Snow White, but few are aware that a teenage Walt Disney growing up in Kansas City saw the original silent movie of the fairy tale, and it was this 1916 silent that inspired him to […]

Thank you to writer/educator, WRFI radio host, and WSM collaborator Roger Kimmel Smith for this wonderful piece he wrote for our blog CineFiles, Dream Painters, Tango Pirates, and the Codes of Race and Sex: Notes on Valentino, all about Rudolph Valentino’s life, his impact as a Hollywood icon, and his enduring legacy…Take a look below! […]

Silent Movie Under the Stars 2025 WSM is excited to feature The Eagle (1925) on the big screen. Sparkling with action and romance, The Eagle proved to be the comeback movie for its inimitable star Rudolph Valentino. Directed by Clarence Brown, the movie was adapted from the 1841 novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin.  Valentino’s co-stars are Vilma Banky and Louise Dresser.  An uncredited Gary […]

Screening and discussion of The Flying Ace (1926), with an introduction by Cornell Professor, Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard Presented in partnership with the Cayuga Museum of History & Art, this program explores the 1926 race film The Flying Ace directed by Richard E. Norman and starring Lawrence Criner. In 2021, the film was selected for […]

WSM in collaboration with Sigma Chi Fraternity proudly present a screening of A Romance of the Air (1918) with live musical accompaniment by Emmett Scott. Sigma Chi Fraternity at Cornell is proud to sponsor this screening, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Sigma Chi’s acquisition of Greystone, one of the first residences in Cayuga […]

Join us this First Friday in June for an evening celebrating the region’s moviemaking history! The Cayuga Museum is part of the Finger Lakes Film Trail, a coalition of historic film sites, and through 2025 we are featuring an exhibit in partnership with our friends at the Wharton Studio Museum in Ithaca. The Wharton Studio Museum […]

A new transportation show from The History Center; a newly-installed exhibit focused on planes, trains and trolleys in Wharton, Inc. Studio films curated by Wharton Studio Museum; a video about the Tommy bi-plane from Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation; and a screening of A Romance of the Air (1918) shot in Ithaca and co-produced by Wharton, Inc. […]

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 […]