Updated: 10/1/20
Note: Until further notice, one should assume that the activities listed below have been, or might be, cancelled or postponed due to Coronavirus-related policies or disruptions. We will revisit and add any updates to this page every 30 days.

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Museums with significant ceramic collections
Ceramics/crafts shows (annual)
Galleries with ceramics
Ceramic studios offering classes and/or workshops
DC area ceramics events listings (special, not regularly scheduled)
Ceramics supplies
Ceramics groups

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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 Gallery of Art - Renaissance ceramics
National Museum of the American Indian  - Native American ceramics
National Museum of African Art - African ceramics
National Museum of American History:  American ceramics
The Walters (Baltimore) - Renaissance and ancient ceramics

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Ceramics/craft 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

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Galleries/Hand-made Ceramics
The Clay Queen, Alexandria VA
Catalyst Gallery at the Clay Co-op, Rockville
District Clay Gallery, Washington DC
​Glen Echo Pottery Gallery, Washington DC
Lorton Workhouse Pottery Gallery, Lorton VA
Hinckley Pottery, Washington DC
Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA
Museum store at the Renwick Gallery, Washington DC
Museum store at the Sackler & Freer Gallery, Washington DC

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Ceramic studios offering classes and/or workshops
Alexandria Clay Coop, Alexandria, VA
Art League of Alexandria, Alexandria, VA
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, SE Wash Dc
Clay Connection, Merrifeld, VA
Clay Co-op, Rockville
Clay and Metal Loft, Leesburg, VA
The Clay Queen, Alexandria VA
The ClayGround, Ellicott City
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
​Kuzeh Pottery, NE 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
VisArts, Rockville, MD
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA

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DC area ceramics events listings
DCC list
Fenwick Alliance list (DC and national)
DC Area Ceramics Community (Facebook)

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Ceramics supplies
Chesapeake Ceramics - SW Baltimore
Claywork Supplies - Alexandria, Baltimore & Richmond

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Ceramics groups
Kiln Club
Montgomery Potters