Valentine’s Maker Dates
Maker Dates are the ultimate Valentine’s or Galentine’s experience. Spend the evening making art, connecting with friends or someone special, and celebrating creativity together. No experience needed, just show up ready to create, laugh, and leave with something you made by hand. 💖🎨
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GoggleWorks
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Summer Residency Applications Now Open!
The Summer Residency Program at GoggleWorks is a 10-week appointment designed to introduce new energy and interests into the GoggleWorks community with an emphasis on facilitating experimentation and cross-disciplinary projects.
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Upcoming Events
Public art & culture events presented and hosted by GoggleWorks
First Friday Gallery Reception
🖼 Join Us for an Exhibition Reception Friday, February 6, 2026 · 6:00–8:00 PM GoggleWorks Center for the Arts Galleries…
Second Sunday: Studio Crawl
🖼️Support the art community in GoggleWorks at our in-house free studio crawl featuring the second and third floors. Explore the…
Garden Vision Board Party
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED, this event is free. Let’s gather to dream up and design our visions for the garden season! We’ll…
Garden Volunteer Days 2026
Community Volunteer Days in the GoggleWorks Gardens will occur every first Wednesday of the month from 4:00pm-7:00pm. Volunteers may arrive…
Second Sunday: Studio Crawl
🖼️Support the art community in GoggleWorks at our in-house free studio crawl featuring the second and third floors. Explore the…
Community Seed and Plant Swap 2026
At GoggleWorks Gardens we’re welcoming Spring by bringing our community together to share resources at our 4th annual Community Seed…
Playing at The Boscov Theater
Come see a great movie in our state-of-the-art film theater! We host regular showtimes seven days a week and aim to bring in a variety of limited engagement, international, documentary, and arthouse films you aren’t likely to find playing anywhere else in the area!
Exhibitions
Featuring international, national, & regional contemporary artists. Our galleries are open 9am-9pm Everyday!
OPEN CALL! GoggleWorks 18th Annual Juried Exhibition
Joe Hocker: Hidden River
Joe Hocker’s work investigates the layered relationship between landscape, culture, and the regional history of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Working with photography, material processes, and historical inquiry, Hocker constructs site-based projects that…
Stephanie Rado Taormina: Time & Transformation
This exhibition brings together nearly two decades of Stephanie Rado Taormina’s creative evolution — from her earliest abstract works of 2007 to the figurative abstractions of today. Each period reflects…
22nd Annual Frank Scott Memorial Art Show: The Art of Jazz
Founded in 2005, The Art of Jazz honors the legendary local jazz musician Frank Scott. The Art of Jazz exhibits annually in coordination with Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest. This is…
Rosalyn Richards: Floating Habitats
Rosalyn Richards’s new series of paintings, Floating Habitats, evolved from earlier works influenced by geometric imagery from architecture, passages, and portals. In Floating Habitats, she has placed a greater emphasis…
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GoggleWorks Announces Major Community Support to Expand Youth Scholarship Programs
New Gifts from Stephanie Rawden of Rawden Joint Ventures, Customers Bank, and Kevin Timochenko of Metropolitan Group will Expand Impact GoggleWorks Center for the Arts…
🎄 The Holiday Event That Turns a Factory Into a Festive Wonderland
You know those holiday villages in snow globes?The ones where people stroll around smiling, drinking warm drinks, browsing handmade goodies, and chatting with artists? Yeah……
🎨 Warning: You May Become Extremely Crafty After Saturday’s Workshops
Some people buy gifts.Some people make them. If you’re the second type—or even if you want to be—the Handcrafted Holiday Market on Saturday, December 6…
🎁 Step Inside the Holiday Market That Everyone in Berks Is Talking About
If you’re looking for the moment the holiday season officially begins, it’s when GoggleWorks swings open its glowing doors on Friday, December 5 from 5–8…
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GoggleWorks Now Has Art Supplies
Come visit the Art Supply Store @ GoggleWorks. 201 Washington St. Reading, PA 19601