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CONTENTS Contents 2 Note from the CHILDREN’S CLASSES & PROGRAMS Partnership & NPS 4 Spring Break & Summer Camps 3 About the Park 16 Camps-At-A-Glance 3 Membership 19 Children’s Visual Arts 4 CHILDREN’S CLASSES Drawing, Painting & Crafts with the YOUNG CREATIVE SPIRIT and others; Art Glass, & PROGRAMS Book Arts, Fiber Arts 35 ADULT & TEEN ART 23 Playgroups & Little Echoes with PLAYGROUP IN THE PARK & MUSIC CLASSES 24 Children’s Dance & Movement 84 DANCE CLASSES FOR 25 Music with the WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AT GLEN ECHO PARK ADULTS & TEENS 27 Puppetry at THE PUPPET CO. 91 About the Glen Echo 29 Theater at ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC Park Partnership 32 Nature and Aquatic Life Programs at GLEN ECHO PARK AQUARIUM 92 Partnership Programs ADULT & TEEN VISUAL ART & MUSIC CLASSES 92 Resident Artists 35 Arts & Media 92 Dentzel Carousel Book & Paper Arts, Enameling, Fiber Arts, Mixed Media, Mosaics, Printmaking 93 Gallery Exhibitions 39 Ceramics & Pottery at GLEN ECHO POTTERY 94 Facility Rentals 42 Drawing & Painting at THE YELLOW BARN STUDIO & GALLERY 95 Birthday Parties 61 Resident Painting & Drawing Studio: J. JORDAN BRUNS 96 Special Events 62 Glassblowing at GLEN ECHO GLASSWORKS 98 Dance Events 63 Kilnformed Glass at the ART GLASS CENTER 103 National Park Service 68 Music with the WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AT GLEN ECHO PARK Programs 70 Photography at PHOTOWORKS 106 Instructors 77 Sculpture and Stone Carving at THE SCULPTURE STUDIO, Clay Sculpture 78 Writing with THE WRITER’S CENTER 107 Registration Form 79 Silversmithing at SILVERWORKS STUDIO & GALLERY 109 Registration Policies & Procedures DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS & TEENS 110 Visitor Information 84 Dance Technique /Creative Movement 111 Praline at Glen Ballet, Creative Movement, T’ai Chi, Yoga, Irish Dance, Modern Dance Echo Park 88 Social Dance 112 Park Map American Ballroom, Argentine Tango, Salsa & Nightclub Latin, Swing & Lindy, Waltz The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc. is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive, and also by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. All programs are produced in cooperation with the National Park Service and Montgomery County, Maryland. The George Washington Memorial Parkway, which administers Glen Echo Park and the Clara Barton National Historic Site, is one of almost 400 national parks in the United States. The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage. www.glenechopark.org 1 GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP GLEN ECHO PARK A Note From the Partnership Dear Friends, Spring is a time of renewal, and we hope you will consider classes and events at Glen Echo Park as a vital part of renewing your spirit this season. We are excited to offer new visual and performing arts classes with the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, Silverworks, and the Washington Conservatory of Music. In addition, we have added new fiber arts classes for kids and adults, including knitting, weaving, felting, quilting, and mixed media. [see pages 10, 23 & 36] & PROGRAMS We’ll also have Summer Camps of all kinds for kids and teens ages 5 through 19. New summer camps in fiber CHILDREN’S CLASSES art, printmaking and other media are available this year. [see pages 6, 8 & 10] Whether your children love theater or painting, photography or music, we’ll have a camp to spark their creativity. See pages 16-17 for our Camps-at-a- Glance schedule. Please join us as we open the summer season at Family Day on April 29 when the historic Dentzel Carousel comes to life again to begin its 97th season at Glen Echo Park. Our 2017 Summer Concert Series will once again bring music to the Park every Thursday evening from June through August. Held in the covered Bumper Car Pavilion, all performances are free and feature local bands playing jazz, blues, folk, classical, Latin, and more. The Partnership and the Park’s resident visual arts organizations will collaborate again this season to present Art Walk in the Park, a monthly evening of open studios & galleries, artist demonstrations, and refreshments presented on the first Friday of the month from May through September. See page 96 for more details. ADULT & TEEN ADULT Finally, our annual Gala in the Park will be held on May 20. The theme for this year’s can’t-miss event is Celebrate VISUAL ARTS & VISUAL MUSIC History in Our Backyard . [see page 96] It is always a great evening and a wonderful way to support the park’s unique programs and facilities. You can find everything you need to enjoy the Park’s classes and events in this catalog—or online at www.glenechopark.org. Katey Boerner, Executive Director, Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture A Note from the National Park Service Welcome to Glen Echo Park. I hope your visit here is enjoyable whether you visit to attend a show, festival or dance, to have a picnic, or take a class in any of the dozens of art forms that are studied here. Take a moment to experience the beauty of the Park and think about its history. Incredible fun has been AND PROGRAMS experienced here by thousands of people of all ages during the era of the amusement park. People left their cares at the front CHILDREN’S CLASSES gate and were thrilled riding on the Coaster Dips, scared in the Hall of Mirrors, and enchanted by the carousel. Visitors during the Great Depression and both World Wars did exactly that and more at Glen Echo Amusement Park. They danced Swing in the Spanish Ballroom at night and rode the streetcar back home to Washington D.C. If these walls could talk they would speak of courageous citizens who protested the amusement park’s segregation policy and ultimately won the fight to open the park to all in 1961. Walls would speak of restoration, reuse and a place of community. The National Park System turned one hundred years old in 2016 and the Find Your Park campaign helps us consider how important our National Parks are to our lives. We hope you will consider Glen Echo Park-“your park”-and come back again and again. Join a ranger led program in the coming year to learn more about this special place. Brent O’Neill, North District Supervisory Ranger DRAWING & PAINTING DRAWING For more information about NPS programs see page 103. 2 www.glenechopark.org GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP GLEN ECHO PARK Are You a Member? Glen Echo Park CHILDREN’S CLASSES Member contributions help us expand the arts & PROGRAMS Glen Echo Park is one of the finest cultural programs and preserve the historic facilities at the resources in Montgomery County. It is home to Park. All Members and Park Partners receive a $3 14 resident artists and organizations, a thriving social discount on every class tuition for you and your dance program, a restored 1921 Dentzel Carousel, immediate family, invitations to Member & Donor numerous art studios and galleries, and hundreds events, and four FREE carousel tickets. of classes in visual and performing arts, including ceramics, painting, photography, glass, music, Member Levels and Benefits: dance, and more. These activities, as well as free • $35 Basic Membership summer concerts, festivals, and special events, • $50 Participant—one Member Coupon bring thousands of visitors to the Park each year. • $75 Enthusiast—two Member Coupons • $100 Family—three Member Coupons ARTS & VISUAL MUSIC The site was first developed in the 1890s as • $150 Premium—four Member Coupons & TEEN ADULT a Chautauqua retreat but soon became the pre- Member Coupons are redeemable for savings mier Washington area amusement park, serving throughout the Park, such as free admission to a the community until 1968. In 1971, after social dance event, the Glen Echo Park Aquarium, the amusement park closed, the federal govern- Art Explorers Family Studio, or the Puppet Co. ment acquired the land in order to preserve the Potomac Palisades and prevent development Park Partner Levels and Benefits: along the river. The management of the Park All Park Partners receive benefits at the Premium Member was assigned to the National Park Service, which level as well as Gala benefits: • $300 Supporter— Gala Ticket established the core of the current arts program. one • $600 Contributor—two Gala Tickets In 2002, the National Park Service transferred & PAINTING DRAWING management of the Park’s arts and cultural • $1,000 Friend—three Gala Tickets programs, as well as its historic buildings, to • $1,500 Sponsor—four Gala Tickets Montgomery County, which in turn created the • $2,500 Patron—six Gala Tickets Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, All Park Partners receive recognition in printed a nonprofit organization, to oversee the Park. materials. Park Partners at the $1,000 level and From 2003 to 2010, extensive renovations of the above receive recognition on our website. Park’s facilities took place under the direction The Gala in the Park will be held on May 20, 2017. of Montgomery County and the National Park JOIN TODAY! Service with input from the Partnership and resi- Visit www.glenechopark.org and click on dent organizations. These renovations were fund- “Become A Member!” & PAINTING DRAWING ed with major federal, state, and county resourc- es as well as private donations. Renovations Membership gifts are tax deductible to the fullest included the Spanish Ballroom, the Dentzel extent allowed by law. Carousel, the Puppet Co. Playhouse, the Arcade Planned gifts ensure that future generations have building, the Yellow Barn, Adventure Theatre, Glen Echo Park to enrich their lives.

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