Glass Arts Festival

media release: Glass Lakefront Art Show and Sale (GLASS) Arts Festival is  an exclusively glass festival held outside on the grounds of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah. Glass artists and collectors from across the country will gather to celebrate glass art during the Friday night VIP collectors’ shopping experience Friday, August 8, 5:30-8:30pm, and the Saturday, August 9, 10am-5 pm GLASS Arts Festival, open to the public. In addition to the best in glass art, visitors will enjoy live music, artisan food and beverages, children’s art activities, and glass blowing demonstrations.

2025 GLASS Arts Festival juror is Mary Childs, Executive Director of the Sandwich Museum of Glass in Sandwich, MA. Childs is a long time glass art enthusiast, arts consultant, and independent curator. Childs previously worked for a decade with Kenn Holsten and Jim Schantz in the former Holsten Galleries in Stockbridge, MA; ran the Mary Childs Gallery in Great Barrington, MA; and most recently, served as artistic director for the Duncan McClellan Gallery in St. Petersburg, FL.