3rd Fridays Souderton
A monthly street festival downtown, third Friday of the month, with music, makers, and food along Main Street. Souderton's standing date to be out among the neighbors.
Arts in the burbs
Every arts spot we vouch for, across every town we cover. Cross a town line for the good ones. That's the whole point.
The picks
- 3rd Fridays Souderton
- 4 Leaf Framing
- Abington Art Center
- Act II Playhouse
- Acting Without Boundaries
- African Masks Plus
- Amphitheater at Lenape Park
- AOY Art Center
- Arcadia University Theater
- The Arches
- Ardmore Avenue Community Center
- The Art Trust at Meridian Bank
- artPOP Studio
- Artworks Fine Arts & Crafts
- ArtWRKD
- Axiom Contemporary
- Boiler Room Studio
- Bomberger Hall
- Brandywine Valley Symphony
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bryn Mawr Film Institute
- Candle Studio 1422
- The Candy Lab
- Casablanca - A Right Start Venue
- Cenzia Arts & Gifts
- Chester County Art Association
- Church Street Gallery
- The CO Lab
- Conshohocken Art League
- Countryside Gallery & Custom Frame Design
- The Craftorium
- The Creative Club of Chester County
- The Creeper Gallery
- Custom Picture Framer of Glenside
- Eclipse Center for Creative Community
- Exhibit B Gallery
- Forge Theatre
- The Frame Game
- Galerie Hamid
- Gallery Gary Giordano
- Gallery Piquel Main
- Goodhart Hall
- Green Wolf 4010 Gallery
- Hands In
- harry’s HOUSE Gallery
- Hiway Theater
- Hohenstein Pottery LLC
- House of Good Fortune
- James A. Michener Art Museum
- Kathy Davis Studios Inc
- Koselig Nook
- Lisa Kelley Studio
- Ludington Library
- Main Street Gallery
- Masterpieces of Narberth
- McClees Galleries
- McCoole's Arts & Events Place
- Medley Arts Center
- Mennonite Heritage Center
- Michener Art Museum
- Midway Arts
- Mile Hill Antiques & Art Gallery
- The Mitre Box
- Montgomery Theater
- Moody Jones Gallery
- Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
- Mud Room Studio
- New Hope Arts
- New Hope Arts and Crafts Festival
- The Painted Plate
- People's Light
- Perkasie Train Car Mural
- The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
- Pivot Ballroom on the Main Line
- Playcrafters of Skippack
- Pook & Pook Inc.
- The Pottery Corner
- Red Tulip Gallery
- The Royal, Where Music Lives
- Seraphin Gallery
- The Sewing Room
- Square Pear Fine Art Gallery
- Stitch Central
- The Sunflower Brigade
- Taylor's Music Store & Studios
- This Little Gallery
- Three Cranes Gallery
- Touchstone Art Gallery
- Tyler Park Center for the Arts
- Union Street Gallery
- Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
- Visual Expansion Gallery
- Wax N Scent Studio
- Wharton Esherick Museum
- Wild Ones
- The Wild Way ApotheFairy
- Wolf Performing Arts Center
- Wren Fellini Gallery
- Zephirin/Giannetta Gallery
- Zlock Performing Arts Center
4 Leaf Framing
A custom picture-framing shop off Wallace Avenue, good for getting a jersey, a diploma, or your kid's watercolor done right. They'll walk you through mat and molding without rushing you out the door.
Abington Art Center
Gallery exhibitions, all-level Studio School classes, and a free outdoor sculpture park open during daylight hours. The lawn hosts a WXPN-affiliated summer concert series and the Holiday Art & Fine Craft Fair each November.
Act II Playhouse
A professional regional theater in a room small enough that every seat feels close. The 2026–27 season opens with a one-man Eisenhower drama and closes its fall run with The Lifespan of a Fact.
Acting Without Boundaries
A nonprofit theater company on East Haverford Road that casts young people with physical disabilities in full stage productions.
African Masks Plus
Owner Judy Dinnerman flies to Africa every year and picks each piece herself at the craft markets. More than 1,500 works rotate through the North Main gallery, some of them a century old.
Amphitheater at Lenape Park
Free live music runs here on Wednesday nights all summer, 7 to 9 in Lenape Park, with food trucks parked alongside and a lawn to spread out on. It opened in 2022 and is where Perkasie heads once the weather turns warm.
AOY Art Center
Artists of Yardley runs this nonprofit art center on Mirror Lake Road, where most classes run six weeks, meeting once a week. Summer art camp is the most popular program on the calendar — weekly half-day sessions for ages 5 to 16, June through August.
Arcadia University Theater
Arcadia's campus theater on South Easton Road, home to the university's performing arts program and the student productions it stages during the school year.
The Arches
Event and wedding venue on East Chestnut, booked for the big-day kind of days. Not a walk-in, but good to know when you are the one planning.
Ardmore Avenue Community Center
The neighborhood community center on Ardmore Ave in South Ardmore. A nonprofit gathering spot rather than an attraction, with programming that shifts through the year, so check the calendar before you go.
The Art Trust at Meridian Bank
A gallery inside the Meridian Bank building on Market Street, showing rotating work from regional artists. Free to walk through, and worth a lap on a lunch break.
artPOP Studio
An independent art studio and event space on East Glenside Avenue, right on the main stretch through town.
Artworks Fine Arts & Crafts
An art and craft gallery on South Union Street, hung with work from local makers. Worth a wander when you're after a one-of-a-kind gift.
Axiom Contemporary
Contemporary art gallery in a Coulter Ave storefront, a block off the Lancaster Avenue strip. Shows rotate, so it is worth checking what is hanging before you walk over.
Boiler Room Studio
Handmade art-glass and acrylic jewelry from a studio inside Souderton's restored 1901 cigar factory, with earrings running about $24 to $30. Start with the art-glass puffy discs in celadon.
Bomberger Hall
The landmark Victorian building at the center of Ursinus College, bell tower and all, with Bomberger Auditorium inside for concerts and lectures. Worth a look if you're walking the campus off Main Street.
Brandywine Valley Symphony
A community orchestra based in Kennett Square, with a season of classical concerts. Catch a performance if that's your kind of evening.
Bryn Mawr College
A women's liberal arts college founded in 1885, one of the Seven Sisters. The stone Collegiate Gothic campus off Merion Ave is open to walk, and Goodhart Hall carries public performances.
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
The nonprofit movie house on Lancaster Ave, in the 1926 Seville Theater building. Art house and repertory programming plus film courses, kept running by its members.
Candle Studio 1422
Cindy Felts makes candles in a studio-and-shop down a few steps off Sycamore Alley, between La Verona and Work2gether. Book a candle-making session, or outsource the whole decision to her $37-a-month Candle Club.
The Candy Lab
A kids' candy-crafting studio on Haverford Avenue running summer camps and candy-science classes, where the projects are edible experiments. Around Halloween the crafts turn spooky and costumes are encouraged.
Casablanca - A Right Start Venue
Casablanca is an event and wedding venue on East Chestnut Street in Coatesville, run by the Right Start team for receptions and celebrations. The kind of room you book for the big days.
Cenzia Arts & Gifts
An arts-and-gifts shop on West State Street downtown. Good for a card, a small present, or a bit of both.
Chester County Art Association
The community art center on a wooded campus off Bradford Avenue — summer camps run June 8 through August 21, with a schedule that stretches all the way to Zentangle. Come October the grounds host Art in the Woods, this year on Saturday the 10th, 11 to 4.
Church Street Gallery
Gallery on Church Street with a rotating exhibition calendar — John Suplee gets the walls in 2026, with Charles Schmidt and Valerie Craig in the mix. Posted hours are Wednesday-through-Saturday afternoons, but Carol will open the place anytime if you call.
The CO Lab
A community space on Mount Carmel Avenue in Glenside, the kind of room local groups book for classes and small gatherings.
Conshohocken Art League
The oldest art league in Montgomery County, running fine-art classes and visiting-artist shows out of the historic Mary Wood Park House on East 5th Avenue. A working gallery and studio rather than a shop, open to anyone who wants to paint or just look.
Countryside Gallery & Custom Frame Design
The State Street shop has been cutting custom frames since 1980, the longest-running frame-and-gallery in Newtown. Bring in a print and they'll pair it with American or European molding, museum-grade UV glass, and conservation backing, or just come browse the fine art on the walls.
The Craftorium
A craft and party space on the same Mount Carmel Avenue block as the CO Lab, set up for making things at a table with other people.
The Creative Club of Chester County
A community arts nonprofit sharing 139 East Chestnut with Midway Arts. Coatesville's creative corner, run mostly on volunteers.
The Creeper Gallery
Donna Marian has run this gothic gallery out of a Main Street storefront since 2013, selling macabre fine art, Victorian mourning antiques, and the hand-built Gothic Dead Dolls she's known for. Ask about the Red Room, where haunted objects get vetted by paranormal teams before they go up for sale.
Custom Picture Framer of Glenside
Custom framing on North Keswick Avenue: the place you take the diploma, the concert poster, or the jersey that has been rolled up in a tube for years.
Eclipse Center for Creative Community
Lansdale's community art center on Vine Street: two contemporary galleries with no admission fee, a boutique of fine art and handmade craft, and private studios with 24-hour access. Watercolors meet Thursday evenings; the kids' learn-to-draw class runs Tuesdays after school.
Exhibit B Gallery
An art gallery on North Main showing local and regional work, with openings that pull a crowd onto the sidewalk. Small room, rotating shows, worth a walk-through when you're downtown.
Forge Theatre
A community theater a block off downtown, running five productions a year plus Script Tease, a free staged-reading series for local playwrights. The 2026-27 lineup marks its 65th season.
The Frame Game
Custom frame shop running since 1984 on a you-name-it-we'll-frame-it model, with a sideline in gifts and home decor. There's a second location over in Yardley.
Galerie Hamid
An art gallery on New Street in Glenside, small and independently run rather than attached to a museum or a school.
Gallery Gary Giordano
Painter Gary Giordano shows his own contemporary work, abstracts and figures, in a one-artist gallery at 20 W Bridge Street. You see the canvases where they're painted, straight from him.
Gallery Piquel Main
Two storefronts at 35 and 39 N Main hung with work from more than 80 artists — landscapes, portraiture, sculpture, and a run of pop realism. Open since 2007, and when the posted hours say closed they'll still open by appointment for anyone who asks.
Goodhart Hall
Bryn Mawr College's performance hall on the Merion Ave side of campus, a stone building from 1928. Concerts, dance and student theater, much of it open to the public with a ticket.
Green Wolf 4010 Gallery
The gallery inside Green Wolf's Village Barn, hanging local artists' work alongside custom farmhouse and live-edge tables. Small, family-owned, and the tables are made to order.
Hands In
Handmade artisan goods on East King Street in Malvern. The kind of shop you duck into for a gift the mall won't have.
harry’s HOUSE Gallery
An art gallery on North Keswick Avenue, in the Keswick Village stretch of Glenside. A storefront space showing work rather than a museum you plan a day around.
Hiway Theater
Jenkintown's restored cinema on York Road, a nonprofit art house running indies, revivals, and community nights. The neon marquee is a landmark in its own right.
Hohenstein Pottery LLC
A pottery shop on North Easton Road trading under the potter's own name. No website, so the phone is the way to find out what is on the shelves.
House of Good Fortune
Renee's boutique-gallery on West Mechanic stocks the pieces that stop you mid-browse: handcrafted garments, folk art, and jewelry you won't spot on anyone else out here. It grew out of her blog of the same name, so every curio on the shelf earned its place by having a story.
James A. Michener Art Museum
Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings hang inside the stone walls of the 1884 Bucks County prison, which closed in 1985 and reopened as a museum in 1988, named for Doylestown's own James Michener. The collection runs to more than 2,700 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.
Kathy Davis Studios Inc
The home base of designer Kathy Davis, whose bright floral art turns up on greeting cards and gift lines all over. Part studio, part shop, just off Horsham Road.
Koselig Nook
A reservation-only teahouse that opens after dark, built on the Norwegian idea of 'koselig.' Shoes stay at the door — clean socks required — and the unlimited tea comes with pastries, music, games, and art.
Lisa Kelley Studio
An artist's studio and art school on East Glenside Avenue, teaching out of a small space near the Glenside train station.
Ludington Library
The Lower Merion Library System's main branch, on South Bryn Mawr Avenue a block off Lancaster. A full-size public library with a program calendar for kids and adults.
Main Street Gallery
The gallery on West Broad hangs paintings by Jim Lukens alongside select area artists and students from his oil-painting classes. Student work next to the teacher's — that tells you what kind of room it is.
Masterpieces of Narberth
Custom framing and art on Haverford Ave, for the print that's been leaning against your wall for a year. The kind of shop you use once and then hand everything to.
McClees Galleries
A fine art gallery on Summit Grove Avenue, a block off the Lancaster Avenue strip, dealing in paintings and prints.
McCoole's Arts & Events Place
The events half of McCoole's, a Main Street room booked with live music, comedy nights, and community theater. A few doors from the Red Lion Inn, so dinner and a show can be one walk.
Medley Arts Center
A community arts organization based on the second floor of the Parish House on West Lancaster Avenue. Its calendar of classes and performances lives on the site.
Mennonite Heritage Center
A museum and archive of Mennonite life with the Mary Jane Lederach Hershey Fraktur Gallery, changing exhibits, the John L. Ruth Historical Library, and an optional 22-minute film. Adult admission is a $7 suggested donation; kids under 12 get in free.
Michener Art Museum
Bucks County takes its own artists seriously, and this is where it shows them off. Do the galleries, then give the sculpture garden more time than you planned.
Midway Arts
An arts building on East Chestnut with working studios and a gallery. Also the room where a lot of Coatesville's shows and openings happen.
Mile Hill Antiques & Art Gallery
Father-and-son antiques and art shop on Ridge Pike trading in yesterday's treasures, where they'll take your best offer — right over Instagram, no less. Old-school stock, refreshingly modern about the haggling.
The Mitre Box
Custom framing in Lansdale since 1955, family-run and happiest with the difficult, unusual jobs other shops wave off. Counter hours are short, but they'll open evenings by appointment.
Montgomery Theater
A professional theater company on North Main, staging plays and musicals in a room where every seat sits close to the stage. It's why downtown Souderton has a curtain time.
Moody Jones Gallery
An art gallery on York Road showing local and regional work. Worth a slow lap when you're already down that stretch of downtown.
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
Henry Mercer built this tile factory between 1911 and 1912, and it still presses handmade Moravian tiles today. Tour the historic workshops and watch the craftsmen at work, or make your own 3-inch tile to pick up about four weeks later.
Mud Room Studio
A pottery studio on Station Road in Ardmore, a block from the train station. Whether that means a class, open studio time or a shelf of finished work is worth a call first.
New Hope Arts
An arts center in the old Worthington's Garage, which sold and fixed cars for five decades before the sculptors moved in. Time your visit for the annual juried sculpture show — the 21st edition hung more than 90 works from 58 artists in metal, stone, wood, and clay.
New Hope Arts and Crafts Festival
Every September, 160-some juried artists take over the New Hope-Solebury High School lot with oils, blown glass, and wearable art. Five dollars gets you in, and a free shuttle runs you back to Main Street when your arms are full.
The Painted Plate
Paint-your-own pottery on Market Street — over 100 pieces to choose from, 60-some glazes, and prices from $6 to $95 with supplies and firing included. Your piece comes back from the kiln in about a week, and if you're still painting at closing they'll stay open a little longer.
People's Light
Professional theater on a seven-acre campus with two stages, the 140-seat Steinbright and the 340-seat Leonard C. Haas, the latter built into a historic stone barn. Classes, student matinees, and the Fern and Fable restaurant round out the year-round operation.
Perkasie Train Car Mural
A long-abandoned SEPTA freight car at N. 8th and W. Market, painted by Promiseland Murals in fall 2025. Free and open-air — walk up and snap photos anytime, with municipal parking nearby.
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
The Berman is the art museum at Ursinus College, open to the public on campus. A good stop when you want some art without a drive into the city.
Pivot Ballroom on the Main Line
A ballroom dance studio and event floor on East Lancaster Avenue in downtown Ardmore. The kind of room you go to in order to learn a step, not just watch one.
Playcrafters of Skippack
Community theater in an old barn on Store Road, converted for the stage after the company moved out from Lansdale in 1956. Playcrafters has been at it since 1949 and now runs six shows and 60 performances a year.
Pook & Pook Inc.
An Americana auction house on Lancaster Avenue — folk art, antique furniture, stoneware, and redware, hundreds of lots at a time. Open weekdays 9 to 5, and nobody makes you hold a paddle.
The Pottery Corner
A paint-your-own-pottery studio on Haverford Ave where you pick a blank mug or bowl and make an afternoon of it. Kids' birthday standby, and a decent rainy-day plan for the rest of us.
Red Tulip Gallery
A co-op gallery on West Bridge Street run entirely by its roughly nineteen member artists, who take turns working the floor. Pottery, glass, jewelry, and fiber work from makers across Eastern PA and central Jersey, and the person ringing you up might be the one who made it.
The Royal, Where Music Lives
A live music venue on South Easton Road in Glenside, and the name tells you the plan. Check the schedule before you make the drive, since what's on stage changes night to night.
Seraphin Gallery
A contemporary art gallery in a Greenwood Avenue suite. Small rooms, real shows.
The Sewing Room
A sewing studio on the lower level at Homestead Road, running classes for kids and grown-ups who want to actually learn the machine. Bring a project or start one from scratch.
Square Pear Fine Art Gallery
A fine art gallery on East State Street showing work from regional artists. Rotating shows, plus prints and smaller pieces you can take home.
Stitch Central
A fabric shop on East Glenside Avenue, near the train station. Fabric by the yard and sewing supplies, the kind of shop most towns quietly lost years ago.
The Sunflower Brigade
An indoor playroom and art studio in the retail spaces under the Madison Apartments, where kids run a pretend town with its own pizza place and hibachi grill. Admission covers one adult per kid, and the rotating daily art project adds five dollars.
Taylor's Music Store & Studios
Family-owned for over 90 years, with a rental program that outfits school band kids and a repair bench that takes on almost any instrument. The attached music school has been at it since 1929.
This Little Gallery
A small West Ave shop that runs gift store and gallery at once, with work from independent makers on the walls and shelves. Worth a stop when you want a present that didn't come off a big-box shelf.
Three Cranes Gallery
A Main Street gallery hung with hand-painted Thai Mudmee tie-dye — the ikat-style skirts and elastic-waist rayon pants run boho-festival, not beach-shop. There's a sculpture section in back for when clothing isn't what you came in for.
Touchstone Art Gallery
Everything in this East Afton gallery is Nancy Allen's own work — kiln-fired glass, jewelry, drawings, all one of a kind. Allen was also the catalyst for the Artists of Yardley nonprofit, so a good chunk of the borough's art scene traces back to her.
Tyler Park Center for the Arts
A community art center in Richboro running pottery classes, stained-glass and kintsugi workshops, and a summer camp, with a sculpture garden on the grounds. Its Crafts in the Meadow fair lands in October.
Union Street Gallery
Landscape painter Frances Roosevelt shows her own work in this North Union Street gallery, canvases split between Chester County and the Sea Islands of Charleston, where she has roots. Visits run by appointment, so call before you make the trip.
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
Broadway-style theater, opera, jazz, comedy, and film on one High Street stage, running since 2017. Performing-arts classes for preschoolers through adults fill the gaps between shows.
Visual Expansion Gallery
An art gallery and custom framing shop on North High Street showing local painters and photographers. Bring in a print and they will frame it too.
Wax N Scent Studio
Pick a glass jar or a mold, pick a wax color, and make your own candle on Main Street; the reservation-only Melt N Pour sessions handle the hot wax, ages 13 and up. Jr Wax — granulated bead wax, no melting required — keeps little kids in the game.
Wharton Esherick Museum
Wharton Esherick's hand-built hillside studio is the exhibit itself: a National Historic Landmark for Architecture holding his furniture, sculpture, and hammer-handle chairs. Tours run March through December, Wednesday to Sunday, advance reservations required.
Wild Ones
An art cafe on York Road, coffee and local art in the same room. The kind of stop where you linger over the wall as much as the cup.
The Wild Way ApotheFairy
Part fairy shop, part ceremony room, steps from the river bridge: fairy-hair sparkle appointments share the calendar with wish workshops sealed in melted wax and a no-choreography, no-audience Dance Church. You can book the whole room for a micro-wedding or handfasting.
Wolf Performing Arts Center
A performing arts theater on Montrose Avenue, a few blocks off Lancaster. Programming runs by season, so the schedule is the thing to check before you go.
Wren Fellini Gallery
An art gallery on the Lancaster Avenue stretch through Bryn Mawr. No website and a phone number, so a call ahead beats a drive over.
Zephirin/Giannetta Gallery
An art gallery on West Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore, street level and storefront sized, so the whole show reads in a single visit.
Zlock Performing Arts Center
A 339-seat theater on Bucks County Community College's Newtown campus, booking concerts, theater, and dance all year. Small enough that there isn't a bad seat in the house.
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