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.

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 […]