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1. Click here for CURRENT ceramic events and happenings in the DC area

2. Podcasts
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler
The Potters Cast
Make/Time (craft podcast)

3. DC area Museums with significant ceramic collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum - Luce Collection, American ceramics
Dumbarton Oaks Museum - Pre-Columbian ceramics
Freer & Sackler Galleries - Asian ceramics
Renwick Gallery - contemporary American ceramics
Hillwood Museum - Imperial Russian and French porcelain
National Museum of the American Indian  - Native American ceramics
National Museum of African Art - African ceramics

3.  Area Craft & Pottery Shows:
American Craft Show - Baltimore - February
Bethesda Fine Arts Festival - May
Smithsonian Craft Show - May
Glen Echo Popcorn Gallery Show - May
Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival - May
Alexandria Festival of the Arts - September
Pottery on the Hill - October
Bethesda Row Arts Festival - October
16 Hands Tour - May & November
District Clay Annual Shows:  Fall & Spring
Montgomery Potters Show:  Fall & Spring
Rittenhouse Fine Craft Fairs, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fall & Spring

4.  Local Ceramic Groups:
​Montgomery Potters
The Kiln Club
DC Area Ceramics Community - Facebook page

5.  Area Ceramic Studios Offering Classes:
Alexandria Clay Coop, Alexandria, VA
Art League of Alexandria, Alexandria, VA
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, SE Wash Dc
Clay Connection, Merrifeld, VA
​Clay Coop, Rockville, MD
District Clay Center, NE Wash DC
Eastern Market Pottery, SE Wash DC
Frederick Clay Studio, Frederick, VA
Glen Echo Pottery, Glen Echo MD
Greenbelt Community Center, Greenbelt, MD
Guy Mason Recreation Center, NW Washington DC
Hinckley Pottery, NW Washington DC
Langley Park Community Center, Hyattsville MD
Thomas Jefferson Community Center, Arlington VA
Red Dirt Studio, Mount Ranier, MD.  Post Bac, artist incubator and studio space
Workshouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA

6.  Major Pottery Shows (outside DC)
St Croix Valley
Rochester 
Dallas
​NCECA

7.  Ceramic Galleries

Galleries with ceramics in the metro DC area
District Clay Gallery
Cross/Mackenzie Gallery
Cooley Gallery
​Glen Echo Pottery Gallery
Lorton Workhouse Pottery Gallery
Hinckley Pottery
Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory
Museum store at the Renwick Gallery
Museum store at the Sackler & Freer Gallery

Major Galleries (outside Washington)
Online Sales: 
ClayAKAR, Iowa City, Iowa
American Museum of Ceramic Art Gallery
Archie Bray Gallery
Lillstreet
Charlie Cummings Gallery
Clay Art Center
Clay Studio Gallery
Crimson Laurel Gallery
Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
​Ferrin Contemporary
Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House
Mudfire Pottery Gallery
​The Nevica Project
Northern Clay Center
Piedmont Craftsmen
Penland Gallery
Red Lodge Clay Center
​Red Star Studios
Sante Fe Clay
​Sara Japanese Pottery
Schaller Gallery
Sculpture Space NYC
​Taos Clay Studio Gallery

Galleries - no online sales
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Cocobolo Design, New York City
Dai Ichi Arts, New York City
18 Hands Gallery, Houston, TX
Gandee Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Jason Jacques Gallery, New York City
LaCoste Gallery, Concord, MA
Onishi Gallery, New York City
​Pucker Gallery, Boston MA
​​Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Tansey Contemporary, Sante Fe, NM
Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

Major Overseas Galleries
- United Kingdom
Contemporary Ceramics Center, London, UK
Goldmark Gallery, Rutland, UK
Oakwood Ceramics, Mansfield Notts, UK
Sculpt Gallery, Colchester, UK

Online Ceramic resources & artist directories:
CFile
Artaxis
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

8.  Workshops:
Washington DC Area & Northern Virginia:
​The Art League
City Clayville
District Clay Center
​Baltimore Clayworks
Tye River Pottery (Kevin Crowe)
The Workhouse at Lorton

Outside of Washington DC:
Alfred University Ceramic Summer School
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Archie-Bray Foundation
​Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft
​The Bascom
​The Clay Studio
Cub Creek Foundation
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
​Mendocino Art Center
Morean Arts Center
Ox-Bow
Paducah School of Art and Design
Peters Valley School of Craft
Pocosin Arts, School of Fine Craft
Penland School of Crafts
​Sante Fe Clay
SIerra Nevada College
Taos Clay Studio
​Touchstone Center for Craft
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
West Virginia Tech - Ceramics in China Program

9.  Ceramic Supplies (local)
Claywork Supplies - Alexandria, Baltimore & Richmond

10.  Magazines
American Craft*
Pottery Making Illustrated*
Ceramic Art & Perceptions (Australia)*
Ceramics in America
Ceramics Monthly*
Ceramics Review (UK/European)*
Clay Times*
New Ceramics - Neue Ceramics (German/English)
Studio Potter*

*District Clay Library Subscription