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Local artist, Bill Schmidt, painting at Brookside Gardens
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Arts

Unleash the artist within you through Montgomery Park’s various arts facilities and programs.

Botanical Art Classes

Learn how to illustrate and paint the perfect flower at the five-acre McCrillis Gardens’ School of Botanical Art and Illustration, directed by internationally acclaimed artist Margaret Saul. In addition to various workshops and master classes, McCrillis Gardens holds annual school art exhibitions.

McCrillis Gardens
6910 Greentree Road
Bethesda, MD 20817
301-962-1455

Art Classes

Montgomery Parks are bursting with a variety of art classes and activities for kids and adults alike. Learn how to build a birdhouse or birdfeeder. Take a course in fabric felting or try your hands at pressed flower art. Our parks offer classes in these and much more, such as photography, watercolor painting and color pencil drawing, all taught by professionals. Search through ParkPass to find classes and schedules.

  • Crafts (paper quilting, fabric felting, birdhouse building, vase making)
  • Visual Arts (color pencil drawing, butterfly and garden photography, watercoloring)

Arts in the Park

During the mid-1980s, the Commission started an "Art in the Parks" program to commission and install pieces of art in the county parks. In 1992, the program ended as budgets were tightened, but the artworks remain in our parks today. They include totem poles stainless steel sculptures, and realistic bronze statues, varying from ultra-modern forms to lifelike depictions. Together they help to create a landscape of interest, exploration and wonder!