With Montgomery County in Phase 2 of recovery from the Covid-19 shutdown, the Pottery partially reopened on July 6, 2020, with carefully redesigned classes and open studio times consistent with covid-19 guidelines to ensure the safety of students and instructors. Initial sessions were continuing adult wheel and handbuilding students who had registered for the July-September period. A second series of Fall classes began on September 29, 2020, including the addition of a Teen Wheel class. Adult and Teen classes are continuing through the winter and into 2021.
Glen Echo Pottery located in historic Glen Echo Park (near Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD) normally offers
- Year-round classes for adult and teen students spanning all skill levels
- Master potter workshops with nationally known visiting artists
- Annual Popcorn Gallery exhibit of recent work by advanced students and staff
- Pottery-making demonstrations and exhibits of finished work, in our Gallery, open 12-5 PM on weekends
Pottery Classes
For course listings, schedules and registration, go to the Glen Echo Park website. See our Classes pages for further information.
For course listings, schedules and registration, go to the Glen Echo Park website. See our Classes pages for further information.
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Pottery Gallery
Looking for unique, handcrafted pottery? The Glen Echo Pottery Gallery is normally open from April through December. Normally our hours are from noon - 5 pm every Saturday and Sunday, and for extended hours during special events in the Park. The video provides a brief tour of our Gallery from the 2018 Gallery season. Because of the pandemic, the Gallery is closed until reduction of Covid restrictions permit. However, with appropriate precautions, we are having outdoor pop up sales. Recent Events:
May Outdoor Pottery Sale
May 8, 2021 11 am - 4 pm Glen Echo Park Outside our Gallery Yurt On this Mother's Day weekend, we had some pots for sale with flower arrangements. See slide show below Images below are from our first pop up sale last year, Saturday, September 5, 2020 when we participated in the Park's Outdoor Art Market.
Our second safe and successful Outdoor Art Market took place on October 17, 2020. We also converted our 33rd Annual Holiday Pottery Sale to an Outdoor Winter Pottery Sale in the Park on Sunday, December 6 and Saturday, December 12, 2020.
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Congratulations to 20 Glen Echo Potters whose work is included in the juried exhibit, Clay, Community and Creativity: How We Survived the Pandemic, Baltimore Clayworks, April 3 - May 22, 2021. 
Upcoming Events:
Popcorn Gallery, Glen Echo Park
Surviving with Clay June 4 - August 1, 2021 
A juried exhibit of recent work by instructors and advanced students at Glen Echo Pottery
For slide shows from our 2019 exhibit in the Popcorn Gallery and other of our past Popcorn Gallery exhibits click Events. |
Below is a slideshow with examples of some of the tables of pottery and vignettes of some of the different types of pottery that was available at the December sale. .
Free public parking in the main lot at Glen Echo Park. Enter via Oxford Rd off of MacArthur Boulevard. Follow the path over the bridge and towards the carousel and signs to the Sale. Click HERE for a map.
Help us continue to improve Glen Echo Pottery. As a non-profit organization we rely on tuition income and an active cadre of volunteers. Improving our facilities and replacing old equipment requires more, successfully competing for grant support and then raising the required matching funds! Click on I'd like to donate to see how you can help by contributing to our general fund or specify the special Kathy Darby Community Outreach Fund through which we fund pottery workshops for low-income youth.
7300 MacArthur Boulevard at Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD 20812
Phone: (301) 229-5585 Email: info.glenechopottery@gmail.com
Glen Echo Pottery is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government, the Arts and Humanities Council
of Montgomery County, and from the Maryland Arts Council.
of Montgomery County, and from the Maryland Arts Council.
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