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Admission: $10 adults, $8 seniors/students with ID. Free for members and children 3 and under.

Visit Glencairn Museum for our annual Sacred Arts Festival and experience religious art in the making. Witness demonstrators using ink, glass, paint and music to create beautiful expressions of faith. Learn about stone carving, see the creation of a sand mandala, take a cell phone audio tour inside and outside the building, enjoy the stunning view from Glencairn’s tower and relax in the Castle Café.

Sacred Arts Demonstrations include:

• Glassblowing

• Blacksmithing

• Stained glass painting

• Sand Mandala completion and dismantling

• Icon Writing

• Solo-voice music

• Stone Carving

• Mosaic making

• Manuscript illuminating

• Replica Gutenberg-Era Printing Press

• Henna hand art, for women and girls; designs are $2, $5, or $10 each.

Please note: at this event the elevator stops at the 1st floor and the Tower only. Please use the stairs while exploring Glencairn Museum’s galleries on all other floors.

No wheelchairs beyond the first floor. No backpack-style baby carriers.

Image: "I Have Come as Light into the World" by Susan Kelly vonMedicus.

Click here to see photos of past Sacred Arts Festivals.