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Student in a bead making workshop at the Art Glass Center
Photo Credit: Daniel Schreiber

Classes and Workshops

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Programs for Children

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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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