Location & Hours

Exterior Hor.ArcadeHoused in a new studio built in 2002, Photoworks is home to a large darkroom facility, two teaching classrooms, a computer lab and gallery. PHOTOWORKS is located on the first floor of the North Arcade building across from the Dentzel Carousel in Glen Echo Park, Maryland, 7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo, Maryland 20812. 301-634-2274 for more detailed directions.

To get to Glen Echo Park, see directions below, and click for a printable map of the area.

By Car:

From the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495), take exit 40 on the outer loop or exit 41 east on the inner loop. Take Clara Barton/Cabin John Parkway to the MacArthur Boulevard/Glen Echo exit. Make a left onto MacArthur Boulevard. Cross Goldsboro Road and then make a left onto Oxford Road where you will see our parking lot.

From downtown Washington, take Massachusetts Avenue in the northwest direction, to its end at Goldsboro Road, turn left, and continue to MacArthur Boulevard. Turn right on MacArthur Boulevard and take an immediate left onto Oxford Road where you will see our parking lot.

By Public Transportation:

Take Montgomery County Ride-On bus #29 operating daily from the Friendship Heights and Bethesda metro stations on the Red Line. For information on rates and schedules visit www.rideonbus.com.

Parking

Parking for Glen Echo is in a parking lot located just off MacArthur Boulevard at Oxford Road, across from the Glen Echo Shopping Center. From the parking lot, follow the path across the Minnehaha Creek bridge and enter the park.

PHOTOWORKS operates in cooperation with the National Park Service, Montgomery County, and the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture (GEPPAC). Founded in 1974, PHOTOWORKS is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization managed by a board of directors with approximately 17-20 instructors teaching quarterly classes.

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Photoworks is a unique community of photographers, located in the arts enclave of Glen Echo Park, Maryland.

Our philosophy is simple: Creative dialogue with fellow photographers, an intimate learning environment, and outstanding faculty are the ingredients for creative growth. Through weekly classes, weekend workshops, open darkrooms, digital labs, monthly critiques sessions, lectures, and regularly changing gallery exhibits, members of the Photoworks community find common ground with other professional and student photographers while cultivating their own technical skills and artistic vision.

Photoworks
Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, Maryland 20812
USA
301-634-2274

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