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 school, a resource center, and a gallery
for kilnformed glass that serves the Washington metropolitan area. The Center
is directed by six glass artists-in-residence, who are committed to both
teaching and creating. These artists, plus other professional glass artists,
offer a variety of classes for beginning students to master classes for
advanced artists. Classes include fusing, kiln casting, mosaics, jewelry,
Venetian glass bead making and stained glass. The Center produces exhibits each
year featuring the glass art of emerging artists, studio artists, faculty and
students. The Art Glass Center's Studio and Gallery are open to the public
Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
and by appointment (301.634.2273).
www.artglasscenteratglenecho.org
Blown Glass
Glassworks at Glen Echo Park is the DC area's first glass school. Classes are
taught year round 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 artist Paul Swartwood and the other Glassworks instructors.
Call 301.634.2280 for our schedule as it changes weekly.
www.innervisionglassworks.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. More info: bonnieleeholland@mail.com
or www.bonnieleeholland.com.
Mixed Media and Printmaking
The Glen Echo Park Partnership is pleased to welcome a new studio, B&C
Multi-Arts Studio, to the small yurt along the main pathway. B&C Multi-Arts
Studio is collaboration between two unique artists, Napoleon Bongaman and
Cassie Lynott. Bongaman is a multimedia artist from Cameroon. His abstract
multimedia paintings are known for their vibrant and active color palette and
the continuous element of discovery. Cassie is a multifaceted artist exploring
printmaking and jewelry design. Her functional and fine art are inspired by
vibrant colors and contrasts and unconventional combinations of materials. More
info: www.creativelinesarts.com or
www.cassielynott.com.
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
A variety of music classes are taught by independent instructors. Learn to play
the guitar or hone your skills in one of several guitar classes. Classes are
available for both children and adults. Classes in piano instruction are also
available for the adult beginner, as well as voice classes for teens and
adults. New classes in Irish music are available for children and adults in
fiddle, bodhran (Irish hand drum) and pennywhistle. See current catalog for
class details.
Coming Summer 2009
Glen Echo Park will welcome the Washington Conservatory of Music to the South
Arcade facility in summer 2009. The Washington Conservatory of Music is a
nationally accredited independent community music school that has served
students of all ages and levels in the greater DC and Bethesda area since 1984.
They offer lessons and classes for young children, teens, and adults. The
Conservatory also presents public professional concerts throughout the year. At
Glen Echo Park, the Conservatory will primarily offer innovative classes, group
ensembles, talks, weekend immersion sessions, summer camps, and concerts for
children, teens and adults. Most individual music lessons will continue to be
offered at the Conservatory's Westmoreland Circle site in Bethesda.
For more information visit www.washingtonconservatory.org.
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 is an open membership organization of 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 all ages and abilities in fiction, feature writing, essay,
memoir, poetry, playwriting and screenwriting, and business writing. The
Partnership is pleased to collaborate with the Writer's Center to bring several
workshops for adults and children to the Park. To register for classes please
visit their website directly at www.writer.org
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