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 and sale of finished work, in our Gallery, open on weekends
NEWS!
our next special event
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See examples of hundreds of handmade ceramic items from our 2021 Winter sales. If weather is poor, we will move tables under the Bumper Car Pavilion.
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Pottery Classes
For course listings, schedules and registration, go to the Glen Echo Pottery page on the Glen Echo Park website. See our Classes pages for further information.
For course listings, schedules and registration, go to the Glen Echo Pottery page on the Glen Echo Park website. See our Classes pages for further information.
Glen Echo Pottery is a fully-vaccinated studio. All students must provide proof of vaccination to attend classes and related activities and wear masks indoors. Please click here for detailed 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. This year it will be open Saturday and Sunday from 11 am until 4 pm from April 23 through December 18, 2022 and for extended times during some special events in the Park.
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. This year it will be open Saturday and Sunday from 11 am until 4 pm from April 23 through December 18, 2022 and for extended times during some special events in the Park.
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Congratulations to Glen Echo Potters:
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Michael Poness whose work was selected for the 12th Annual Workhouse Arts Clay International exhibit in Lorton, VA, Aug. 6 - Oct. 9. 2022 . 
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Christine Goh whose work was chosen for the 30th Strictly Functional Pottery National, Lancaster Museum of Art, PA., Sept. 16th - Nov. 5th 2022 
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Recent Events:
2022 Rhythm and Balance
An exhibit of juried work from Glen Echo Pottery instructors and advanced students.
Popcorn Gallery
Glen Echo Park
May 6 - June 5, 2022
Reception May 6, 5-7 pm
In cooperation with the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc.,
The National Park Service & Montgomery County, MD.
The slide show below provides a peak at the show..
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Past Events:
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Lots of beautiful functional and decorative pots, sculpture, holiday decorations and ceramic jewelry! A few tables from our 2020 Winter Sale are shown below. 
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. |
September 26, 2021
11:30 am - 4 pm Annual Seconds Sale Tables set up outside on the grass across from our Gallery
To see slide shows of our 2021 and previous Popcorn Exhibits and special sales, click Events.
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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 and signs to the Sale. Click here for a map.
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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