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SUMMARY:2026 Arts on Fire Festival
DESCRIPTION: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.   \nJoin 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.   \nSaturday\, June 6 | 11a-5p \nHands-on activities with our partners\, live music\, craft and artist market\, and more!  More information coming soon. \nThe Iron Pour! \nSaturday only – 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.  \n  \nYouth Arts Showcase \nLocal youth will showcase their original art based on the theme – Change.  \nOn Saturday\, stop by the YAS tent to check out their work and chat with the young artists about their process and inspiration.  \nLearn more and submit your artwork here.  \n  \nSunday\, June 7 | 11a – 4p\nCome back to the Furnaces to shop our unique craft and artist marker\, check out partner activities\, and for a workshop or two! More information on workshops coming soon.  \n\nIMPORTANT  \nWe’ve been made aware of fraudulent emails going out soliciting vendors (and payments) for Arts on Fire. We do not send out requests for payments unsolicited. Also\, if the email is not from the Museum Educator\, Nicole Negron\, at nicnegron@pa.gov email\, please disregard as spam. \n\nAbout the Scranton Iron Furnaces  \nThe 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. 
URL:https://www.anthracitemuseum.org/event/2026-arts-on-fire-festival/
LOCATION:Scranton Iron Furnaces\, 159 Cedar Ave.\, Scranton\, PA\, 1850\, United States
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SUMMARY:2026 Arts on Fire Festival
DESCRIPTION: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.   \nJoin 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.   \nSaturday\, June 6 | 11a-5p \nHands-on activities with our partners\, live music\, craft and artist market\, and more!  More information coming soon. \nThe Iron Pour! \nSaturday only – 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.  \nYouth Arts Showcase \nLocal youth will showcase their original art based on the theme – Change. More information coming soon.  \nOn Saturday\, stop by the YAS tent to check out their work and chat with the young artists about their process and inspiration.  \n  \nSunday\, June 7 | 11a – 4p\nCome back to the Furnaces to shop our unique craft and artist market\, check out partner activities\, and join us for a workshop or two!  \nPre-registration is required for all workshops. Register below. \n  \n \n11am – 4pm – Knightsmith Blacksmith Workshops – $20 – $35 \nJoin expert blacksmith\, Chris Knight\, for one of two (or\, both) workshops where you’ll learn blacksmithing basics and get hands on in the forge and fire. All participants will leave the workshop with their handmade project. (The herb cutter workshops may run past the event’s 4pm end time.) \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n \n11am – 4pm – NMIH Metal Melting Workshops – $30 \nScience\, art\, and manufacturing come together in this hands-on\, family friendly workshop.  Join National Museum of Industrial Museum’s historian\, Mike Piersa\,  at the Scranton Iron Furnaces where participants learn how to prepare sand molds to receive molten tin and create a product to take home! Not recommended for children under 8 years old. Anyone under 18 will need to be accompanied by a parent/guardian. (Parent/guardian does not have to pay unless taking part in the experience.) \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nIMPORTANT  \nWe’ve been made aware of fraudulent emails going out soliciting vendors (and payments) for Arts on Fire. We do not send out requests for payments unsolicited. Also\, if the email is not from the Museum Educator\, Nicole Negron\, at nicnegron@pa.gov email\, please disregard as spam. \n\nAbout the Scranton Iron Furnaces  \nThe 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. 
URL:https://www.anthracitemuseum.org/event/2026-arts-on-fire-festival-2/
LOCATION:Scranton Iron Furnaces\, 159 Cedar Ave.\, Scranton\, PA\, 1850\, United States
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