East Falls Glassworks is greater Philadelphia's largest studio and gallery dedicated to hot glass.

The glassblowing studio is located at Sherman Mills in East Falls, near Manayunk, about 7 minutes from the Philadelphia Art Museum. East Falls Glassworks is convenient to Center City Philadelphia, New Jersey, the Main Line and surrounding suburbs.

Visit Our Glass Studio, Watch Live Glassblowing

June 14th - Open House

Seconds Sale: A table will be set up with lots of East Falls Glassworks glass art at 'bargain basement' prices. These are one-of-a-kinds and items with small flaws.

Here are some glass blowing pictures from a recent open house.

Hours of Operation

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday	10am - 7pm
Tuesday	Closed
Friday	noon - 9pm
Saturday	10am - 8pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Take a Glassblowing Class

Glassblowing classes are offered for all levels of experience. We have classes designed for beginners as well as offerings for glass blowers with advanced skills. Our patient, experienced instructors will help you satisfy your glass muse. East Falls Glassworks is 'public access'; once you've mastered the basic glassworking skills the studio is available for rental; so you can realize your own glass designs. Fill our the online registration form or call us at (215) 908-7924 for more information about our glass classes.

Artist Support Services

In an effort to strengthen the foundation of the glassblowing community, East Falls Glassworks is supporting an arts advocacy project, called "LAUNCH", designed to advance the careers and better the lives of artists and craftspeople working in glass. The aim of the project to help members of our community find financial resources, continuing education opportunities, career advancement, access to healthcare, and business education. More information about the artist support program is here.

Partnership with The University of the Arts

East Falls Glassworks has been selected to host continuing education glassblowing classes offered by The University of the Arts (UArts). This is a unique Philadelphia-based university with a focus on many different forms of art. You can find more information about our partnership with UArts.

Artist Spotlight: Jon Goldberg

One of the founders of East Falls Glassworks, Jon Goldberg, uses innovative color techniques combined with elegant form in his glass art. Jon Goldberg's online portfolio can be seen here, or visit the studio to see his work in person. Stay tuned for more online portfolios, including glass artist Owen Pach's and some of our resident artists. Philadelphia has a vibrant community of glass artists and our goal is to showcase some of the work made by the community.

Commissions and Special Events

The East Falls Glassworks glassblowing team can work with you to bring your glass commission ideas to reality. We can also add some hot glass to your next special event whether its a birthday party or corporate team-building.

Featured Video

Here is a video of Owen creating one of his signature sandmold-blown glass bowls. This video shows some of the beauty of the glassblowing process; visitors to our Philadelphia-area studio are welcome to watch in person.

Elio Quarisa in Philadelphia

Our first master glass blowing class, taught by Maestro glassblower Elio Quarisa, was an unqualified success. We've put together a page about the class with pictures and more information about both Maestro Quarisa as well as the class proceedings. We've also posted pictures of some the glass art that Maestro Quarisa made during the class.

Sherman Mills Arts Council

The complex where we are located, Sherman Mills is a 19th century textile mill that is undergoing a transformation into a vibrant, diverse artists' community. There are 40+ artist studios in the complex, include sculptors, painters, stained glass artists, warm glass artists (slumping and fusing), potters, weavers and others. Sherman Mills is the 2nd largest group of artist studios in Philadelphia and still growing. The community of artists here is amazing. Sherman Mills Arts council (SMArts) is the group that coordinates artistic happenings and special events at Sherman Mills.

Twice seen on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"

Hopefully, you were able to see us and our glass art on the Emmy award winning TV series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". We twice worked with Preston Sharp, a designer from the show. Most recently, we made an amazing glass and wrought iron chandelier for Kilgallon (Levittown, PA) family episode of the show. We made kites made from blown glass for the (Northeast Philadelphia) Py family. If you'd like to get more information about our glass kites, please check out the gallery page. You also can check out the Press Release announcing the studio's involvement with the show. Both were great projects and we were privileged to be twice asked to help out.

January 7th, 2006: Grand Opening

Thanks to all who made our grand opening a huge success. We had a great crowd and lots of glass artists in attendance; it meant a lot to us to see the support from the greater Philadelphia glass blowing community (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware).

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