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 Events:
11th Annual Popcorn Gallery Exhibit
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A juried exhibit of work by instructors and advanced students at Glen Echo Pottery to showcase how shape and design inform pottery

Friday, May 4 through Monday, May 28, 2018 
Opening reception - Saturday, May 5th from 5 to 7 p.m. 
Popcorn Gallery
Glen Echo Park
​​In cooperation with the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc., The National Park Service & Montgomery County, MD.

Click EVENTS to see a slide show of the exhibit.​

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Congratulations to Glen Echo Pottery's Mike Poness whose piece "Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect" was chosen for   Craft Forms 2018, an  exhibit from December 7, 2018 to January 26, 2019 at the Davenport Gallery in Wayne PA. Mike's is one of only 108 chosen by juror Percy A. Price for the exhibit from among 1598 pieces submitted by 417 artists.
Congratulations to Glen Echo Potter Eunkyung Han who was awarded a solo exhibition as a result of her work submitted to the Labor Day Art Show.  Her exhibit, Somewhere Over the Sea, will be shown in the Park View Gallery at Glen Echo Park from January 5-26, 2019. The artist's reception will be held on January 12, 2019 from 4-6 pm.
Pottery Gallery
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Looking for unique, handcrafted pottery?  The Glen Echo Pottery Gallery is closed for the winter. Beginning once again on April 6, 2019, we will be open from noon - 5 pm every Saturday and Sunday throughout the year, and for extended hours during special events in the Park
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.
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 Darby Community Outreach Fund,  whose volunteer pottery instructors and student made pottery are shown below. For more information about the Darby Fund and pictures of it's activities, see our Community page
                                        
                                              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.