Join us on February 18 at 12:30 pm for a LIVE launch event to kick off the Carousel 100th Anniversary Celebration! We will be live here on our website, on YouTube and on Facebook to tell you about the exciting activities and events we’ve planned for the months-long Carousel 100th Anniversary celebration.

We'll be live from the carousel building with Emcee Liz Dapo from the Puppet Co. and her sidekick (you’ll see when you tune in!), as well as Glen Echo Park Partnership Executive Director Katey Boerner and Partnership Board President Bonnie Casper. We will also have special messages from Senator Chris VanHollen, Congressman Jamie Raskin, Maryland Delegate Marc Korman, Montgomery County Councilmember Andrew Friedson, and other special guests!

Event will last about 20 minutes, so plan to join us for a Live Lunch Launch! 

Do your holiday shopping virtually with Glen Echo Park! Our virtual shopping experience is a new safe and accessible way to support the Park and resident artists. Our virtual shoppers can help you pick out your favorite holiday gifts.

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Do your holiday shopping virtually with Glen Echo Park! Our virtual shopping experience is a new safe and accessible way to support the Park and resident artists. Our virtual shoppers can help you pick out your favorite holiday gifts.

Sign Up Here

Do your holiday shopping virtually with Glen Echo Park! Our virtual shopping experience is a new safe and accessible way to support the Park and resident artists. Our virtual shoppers can help you pick out your favorite holiday gifts.

Sign Up Here

Join Glen Echo Pottery at their outdoor market. Browse through pottery pieces created by over 35 potters. The perfect place for one of a kind artwork. Masks and social distancing will be enforced. Credit cards and checks will be accepted.

The Winter Outdoor Pottery Market at Glen Echo Park will be in compliance with all Montgomery County Covid restrictions. Crowd size will be monitored to ensure safe distancing, and all will be wearing masks. We are maintaining awareness of county policy changes, and will adapt as needed to provide a safe experience for potters and shoppers.

Bad weather date: December 12, 10am - 4pm

Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

April's event features a thematic open mic focusing on opposites, specifically beginnings and ends. Come prepared with at least 2 pieces (poetry or other), one on beginnings and one on ends, with an option of a third piece on a topic of your choice. Plan to adhere to a 4 minute time limit although this may need to be adjusted depending upon the number of people signing up. Screen sharing is always an option if you want to have your poems displayed

Join the Zoom Meeting for the streaming event!

Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

February's event features Derek N. Otsuji  and Mark Tarren.

Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours, winner of the 2021 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition.  It will be published by SIU Press in fall 2021.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, and Pleiades.

Mark Tarren is a poet and writer who lives on remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.  A Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various literary journals including The New Verse News, The Blue Nib, Poets Reading The News, Street Light Press, Spillwords Press, Tuck Magazine and Impspired Magazine.

Join the Zoom Meeting for the streaming event!

Meeting ID:  876 4770 1054

Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

November's event features Burgi Zenhaeusem and Julie Danho.
 

Burgi Zenhaeusern is the author of the chapbook Behind Normalcy (CityLit Press, 2020), winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize, and she co-edited the translations of the bilingual poetry anthology Knocking on the Door of the White House (Zozobra Publishing, 2017, J. Ballesteros et al., editors).

Julie Danho’s first full-length poetry collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, and New Ohio Review as well as featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.

Join the Zoom Meeting for the streaming event!

Meeting ID:  876 4770 1054

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Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

December's event features Susana H. Case and Martha Addy Young.

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry. Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books (2020), is her newest. It won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite. Drugstore Blue, from Five Oaks Press, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks, two of which won poetry prizes. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies. Dr. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City.  See more at susanahcase.com. 

Martha Addy Young is the recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She was the runner-up for the Bellevue Literary Review’s poetry prize, and a finalist for the Larry Neal Writer’s Award and the Crosswinds Poetry Award. Her poem Dusk in Dupont Circle was recently featured in Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland.

Join the Zoom Meeting for the streaming event!

Meeting ID:  876 4770 1054

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The annual Holiday Art Show & Sale is back! In our Popcorn Gallery and Stone Tower gallery, the show includes work by resident artists and instructors, as well as other invited guests with works in: glass, ceramics, photography, painting, jewelry, holiday ornaments, and more!

Saturdays & Sundays | November 21, 2020 - January 3, 2021

With so many unique gifts, the Holiday Art Show & Sale is a great place to shop for everyone on your holiday list! Browse and buy for everyone on your holiday shopping list.

The Park's major resident visual arts organizations are represented, including the Art Glass Center, Glen Echo Glassworks, Glen Echo Pottery, SilverWorks, Photoworks, the Sculpture Studio, the Stone Tower Studio, and the Yellow Barn Studio.

[ For your health and safety, access to the exhibit will comply with CDC and local health guidelines due to COVID 19, which currently require wearing face coverings in the gallery and a limit on the number of visitors at one time. There may be a wait time of up to 10 minutes to enter the gallery. To minimize contact, sales will be made by credit or debit card only. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. The health and safety of our patrons, artists and staff is our top priority. ]