Programs for Children
Please see our
kids page for more information.
Ceramics and Pottery
Glen Echo Pottery is a fully equipped studio that specializes in high
temperature reduction firing with a year-round schedule of classes, daytime
and evening. We also offer special classes highlighting Raku, soda/wood,
and sawdust firing. Glen Echo Pottery offers a studio environment that is relaxed and informal, yet creatively serious.
Our teaching philosophy and friendly atmosphere enable students to express
themselves freely at their own pace and become active members of the pottery
community. Web site: www.glenechopottery.com.
Phone: 301.229.5585
Drawing and Painting
The Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery is the painting residency at Glen
Echo Park. Resident painter and instructor Walt Bartman's goal is to provide
a place where those interested in painting can have the opportunity to
meet, collaborate and display their work. The Yellow Barn Studio provides
a variety of classes in watercolor, oil and acrylic painting for students at all
levels representing a diversity of philosophies and approaches taken by
the faculty.
The Yellow Barn Gallery hosts individual and group art exhibits year-round
and is open to the public on Saturday and Sundays from 12 to 5 p.m. Phone:
1.301.371.5593. Web site: www.yellowbarnstudio.com
Photography
Photoworks at Glen Echo Park is a unique learning center providing a
personalized atmosphere for students to develop their visual talents in
photography. Small classes, a variety of courses and a professional faculty
of commercial and fine art photographers allow each student to develop
his/her technical and aesthetic photo abilities.
The Photoworks Studio, a new facility in the Arcade building, is
equipped for b/w film development and printing with an enlarger for each
student, two film developing rooms, a mat cutting area, a digital area,
and an exhibition space. All chemicals are provided. Students provide
camera, film and paper. Laptops are encouraged for digital classes.
Phone: 301.634-2274. Web site: www.glenechophotoworks.org
Kilnformed Glass
The Art Glass Center at Glen Echo is a resource center for kilnformed
glass that serves the entire Washington metropolitan area. The Center
is directed by four studio glass artists-in-residence, (Bobbi Vischi,
Zayde Sleph, Christine Hekimian, and Diane Cabe) who are committed to
both teaching and creating. These artists, plus several other professional
glass artists, offer a variety of classes in kilnforming, kiln casting,
the roll-up technique, pate de verre, Venetian glass bead making, flameworking,
color and design, painting and silk-screening on glass, stained glass,
and architectural installations. Center members exhibit their works
both locally and nationally, and have received awards for excellence in
their art. The Center's Arcade Glass Studio and Gallery are open to
the public Friday - Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. For
further information email BBVischi@comcast.net.
Blown Glass
Glassworks at Glen Echo Park is the D.C. area's first glass school. Classes
are taught each quarter for novice and advanced students. When classes
are not in session, the studio is open for visitors to observe glassblowing
and view the work of resident artists Rick Sherbert. Please
call for our open studio schedule as it changes weekly.
Phone 301.229.4184 www.ricksherbertglass.com
Fiber Arts
We are pleased to welcome a new resident arts program,
New Directions Fiber, with artist Barb Bancroft. Learn about the art of needle felting with wool and take one of several new workshops being offered. Visit the New Directions Fiber Studio on the second floor of the newly rebuilt Yellow Barn building.
Mixed Media and Surface Design
We are pleased to welcome a new resident arts program, Bonnie Lee Holland Art and Creativity Lab. Learn about textile and surface design and creativity and take one of several new classes being offered. Visit her studio on the first floor of the newly rebuilt Yellow Barn building, at the north end near the Pottery yurts.
Calligraphy
Learn the art of calligraphy with artist Alana Hunter at Feather Tree Hill Studio. Classes and camps in calligraphy, handwriting improvement and creative paper crafts are offered for all ages.
Other Arts and Media Offerings
We offer a variety of arts and media classes in addition to those listed
above, including beading and jewelry, clay sculpture, stone carving, cartooning,
animation, bookmaking, printmaking, polymer clay, silk painting and other topics.
Music
Learn to play the guitar or hone your skills in one of several guitar classes. Classes are available for both children and adults. New classes in piano instruction are also available for the adult beginner. It's never too late to learn the piano! See current catalog for class details.
Dance and Movement
Please see our dance page
for more information about the Hall of Mirrors dance studio and social
dance classes.
Environmental Education and Children's Theater
For organizational information go to our kids
page.
Writing
The Writer's Center was founded in 1976 and has become one of the leading independent
literary centers in the United States. It is an open membership organization
of 2,500 writers, editors, students, small-press publishers and other artists.
The goal is to promote the art of writing and to build a community of writers,
workshop leaders, publishers and audiences for contemporary writing. They offer
workshops year-round for writers of all ages and abilities in fiction, feature
writing, essay, memoir, poetry, playwriting and screenwriting, and business
writing. The Partnership is pleased to welcome the Writer's Center to the Park with several workshops for adults and children.
To register for classes please visit their website directly.
Web site: www.writer.org
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