Glen Echo Pottery located in historic Glen Echo Park (near Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD) 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.
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Recent Event:
12th Annual Popcorn Gallery Exhibit
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Outside the Box              2019
 
A juried exhibit of recent work by instructors and advanced students at Glen Echo Pottery to celebrate our constant artistic evolution.

Friday, May 3 through Sunday, June 2, 2019 
​​In cooperation with the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc., The National Park Service & Montgomery County, MD.​
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For a slide show of the exhibit click Events.
​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.
Congratulations!    Glen Echo potter Dee Harris has been awarded a 2019-2020 Fulbright Scholar grant, which will take her to Tbilisi, Georgia starting in December.    In Tbilisi, she will be 1) undertaking original research on Georgian ceramics, and 2) carrying out community outreach programs in collaboration with the host institutions.  One focus of her research will be to create  and publish in-depth profiles of contemporary ceramic artists across the country, with the aim to raise international awareness of their work and of this under recognized area of Georgian artistic endeavor.                   
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Congratulations to Glen Echo potter Mike Poness whose work is in this year's Strictly Functional Pottery National exhibit, juried by Malcolm Smith, that runs from September 21 - October 26, 2019  in Lancaster, PA.
Pottery Gallery
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Looking for unique, handcrafted pottery?  The Glen Echo Pottery Gallery is open from April through December. Our hours are from noon - 5 pm every Saturday and Sunday throughout the year, and for extended hours during special events in the Park. 
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​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 to reach the Pottery Gallery.  Click HERE for a map.
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The video below provides a brief tour of the Gallery from the 2018 Gallery season.
                                        
                                              7300 MacArthur Boulevard  at Glen Echo Park,  Glen Echo, MD 20812
                                            Phone: (301) 229-5585          Email: info.glenechopottery@gmail.com
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                Glen Echo Pottery is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County
                  ​government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
as well as the Maryland Arts Council.