Artist Jack Pine Celebrates ‘Wicked’ at Glass Pumpkin Festival

The Wizard of Oz’s famed Yellow Brick Road winds into Laurelville this fall, as Hocking Hills-based glass artist Jack Pine unveils two Pumpkin of the Year designs — a good-versus-evil pairing inspired by Glinda and Elphaba, the two main characters in Broadway’s “Wicked.”

Since debuting in 2019, the Jack Pine Glass Pumpkin Festival has become a fall tradition. This year’s event runs Sept. 19 through 21, giving collectors the chance to choose their side: Glinda’s version gleaming in swirling rose pink with golden spines, or Elphaba’s witchy design with emerald glass, smoke-like streaks of chartreuse and a hat-shaped top.

“I chose ‘Wicked’ as our 2025 theme because I love the how the story looks at the choices we make along the Yellow Brick Road of life, the play of good versus evil and the way the two sides come together,” Pine said in a Sept. 5, 2025, press release announcing this year’s event. “Once I settled on that, I knew we had to create two Pumpkins of the Year.”

Artist Jack Pine’s Elphaba (left) and Glinda (right) pumpkins will be the stars of the 2025 Jack Pine Glass Pumpkin Festival in Laurelville. (photo courtesy of Jack Pine Studio) 

Beyond the centerpiece pumpkins, which attendees can purchase to take home, Pine’s 11-acre property in Laurelville turns into a wonderland filled with hand-blown glass pumpkins. Visitors can also expect live music, glass-blowing demonstrations, food trucks, kids activities and a bustling artists market.

The Glass Pumpkin Festival runs 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free, but parking ranges from $5 to 10, with advance discounts available at the festival website.

21397 St. Rte. 180, Laurelville 43135, 740/332-2224,  glasspumpkinfestival.com

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