2026 Arts on Fire Festival
June 7 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces presents the 2026 Arts on Fire Festival! The Arts on Fire Festival, launched in 2009, is a FREE two-day celebration of arts, heritage, industry, and community held the first weekend of June at the Iron Furnaces in Scranton.
Join us at the Furnaces on Saturday, June 6 for hands-on activities, live musical performances, the ever-popular iron pour, and returning this year– the Youth Arts Showcase. On Sunday, June 7, we will have several workshops. See below to learn more about the weekend-long festival.
Saturday, June 6 | 11a-5p
Hands-on activities with our partners, live music, craft and artist market, and more! More information coming soon.
The Iron Pour!
Visitors can purchase scratch blocks to design custom souvenirs from the festival. Metal Artist, Brian Glaze, will be joined by blacksmiths Cliff Prokop and David Schulte as well as students from Keystone College for the ultimate, fiery iron-pouring experience. Visitor scratch blocks will be turned into their very own iron, souvenir. Please allow time for iron pour and cool down. Participants may need to return on later date to retrieve finished product.
Youth Arts Showcase
Local youth will showcase their original art based on the theme – Change. More information coming soon.
On Saturday, stop by the YAS tent to check out their work and chat with the young artists about their process and inspiration.
Sunday, June 7 | 11a – 4p
Come back to the Furnaces for a workshop or two! More information coming soon.
About the Scranton Iron Furnaces
The Scranton Iron Furnaces are a four-acre site along Roaring Brook and managed by The Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces. They are a former working iron foundry, built in the 1840s, where many of the early immigrants to Scranton worked. Set against this historic backdrop, visitors to the Arts on Fire Festival can enjoy hands-on history and the best of contemporary art.