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Press Releases

2023-10-12 | Call for Entries: Wharton Esherick Museum 30th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition

2023-08-31 | Acclaimed Artist Martha McDonald Performs The Wood is Singing in Color at the Wharton Esherick Museum

2023-05-16 | Telling Tales: WEM’s 29th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition Opens June 1st

2023-02-09 | One Object, Many Stories: Esherick’s Music Stand Opens March 2nd

2022-10-27 | Newest Episode of PBS Series Craft in America, HOME, Features Wharton Esherick Museum, Syd Carpenter, and Helen Drutt English

2022-10-22 | Wharton Esherick Museum Receives Save America’s Treasures Grant to Preserve Works on Paper Collection

2022-08-25 | Home as Stage Opens September 15th

2022-05-24 | Wharton Esherick Museum Celebrates 50 Year Anniversary with Juried Exhibition Exploring Self-Portraits & New Topic Tours

In the News

October 2025 | Broad Street Review

The Wharton Esherick Museum presents Working at a Joyous Creative Thing: Weaving, Making and Material Culture in Letty Esherick’s Legacy

September 2025 | CAS News, University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences

Weaving Textile History

September 2025 | Travel + Leisure

I Explored Pennsylvania’s Hidden Architectural Treasures With My Son for Spring Break—Here’s What We Found

September 2025 | MyChesCo

Wharton Esherick Museum Opens Exhibition Celebrating Letty Esherick’s Overlooked Creative Legacy

August 2025 | Architect Magazine

Louis Kahn Built the Sexiest Suburban Box in America

August 2025 | Orszāgēpītō

The Artist Who Listens to the Inner Nature of the Material – On Wharton Esherick’s Furniture – Part 3

June 2025 | WFMZ-TV 69 News

History’s Headlines: Wharton Esherick and his home in Chester County

June 2025 | Orszāgēpītō

If it doesn’t entertain you, it’s not worth doing – The story of American artist Wharton Esherick – Part 2