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 and sale of finished work, in our Gallery, open on weekends
After months of strict covid restrictions, this fall we are able to again welcome both former and new pottery students to our classes. Check the Glen Echo Park website for information about registration. Note that we will continue to follow all Montgomery County, MD restrictions in force to prevent covid infections. Currently, masks are required indoors in all Park facilities.
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.
Pottery Gallery
Looking for unique, handcrafted pottery? The Glen Echo Pottery Gallery exhibits and sells functional and decorative ceramic art created by instructors and advanced students at the Pottery. It has been closed because of the pandemic but the Gallery reopened on September 4, 2021, and be open on each Saturday and Sunday thereafter from 11 am - 4 pm and for extended hours during some special events in the Park.
https://glenechopark.org/LDAS The video below shows a tour of our Gallery pre-Covid.
Looking for unique, handcrafted pottery? The Glen Echo Pottery Gallery exhibits and sells functional and decorative ceramic art created by instructors and advanced students at the Pottery. It has been closed because of the pandemic but the Gallery reopened on September 4, 2021, and be open on each Saturday and Sunday thereafter from 11 am - 4 pm and for extended hours during some special events in the Park.
https://glenechopark.org/LDAS The video below shows a tour of our Gallery pre-Covid.
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Special Event:
September 26, 2021 11:30 am - 4 pm Annual Seconds Sale Tables set up outside on the grass across from our Gallery
"Can you believe I found this beautiful pot at such a good price, I just had to get 6 others!" Majority of proceeds benefit programming and facilities at Glen Echo Pottery, a 501c3 non profit organization. |
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Congratulations to Glen Echo Potter Jim Rolfes whose octopus toped covered jar won a first prize in the 2021 Maryland State Fair. Recent 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 In cooperation with the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc., The National Park Service & Montgomery County, MD. 
To see slide shows of our 2021 and previous Popcorn Exhibits and other exhibits and special sales, click Events.
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Recent Events:
June Outdoor Pottery Sale
Saturday, June 5, 2021 11 am - 4 pm Outside our Gallery Yurt The slide show below shows some of the tables at the start of the 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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