Jeff Scanlan

About this instructor

Jeff Scanlan is a professional speaker, author, artist, and former professional magician of 30 years. He enjoys puzzles and things that amaze and make people think. In 1996, while reading Magic Magazine, he came across an article about Harry Eng, who had just recently passed away. Harry was a teacher, inventor, and amateur magician. Yet, he was world famous for an art form he invented called Impossible Bottles. After reading the article, Jeff became fixated on how these bottles were done. In the year 2000, he did it. He put his very first object (a bar of Lava soap still in the packaging) into a bottle.  Today, Jeff has put a whole variety of objects into bottles – Decks of cards, tennis, golf and ping-pong balls, padlocks, baseballs, scissors and even a pair of high-top Converse gym shoes.  Currently, there are about two-dozen people in the world who have mastered this art form. Jeff is one of the very best. His bottle work is on display in the library of The Magic Castle in Hollywood, California, the museum of The College of Magic in Capetown, South Africa and in the Science Gallery Museum at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.  His work has been featured in The Linking Ring magazine, Games magazine, Genii magazine, and Phoenix magazine in 2023.  Jeff is continually working on new bottle creations, keeping Harry Eng’s legacy alive and to date has duplicated seven to eight of his bottles.   

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Extraordinary Magic with Ordinary Objects

with Jeff Scanlan June 21-22, 2025

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