Artsy Finds for Last-Minute Holiday Shopping

Procrastinators fear not!  You can still pick out the perfect gifts for those tough-to-shop-for people on your list at Glen Echo Park Partnership’s annual Holiday Art Show & Sale.  Thoughtfully open through January 8 (in case you’ve forgotten someone or want to pick up a little “post-holiday happy” treat for yourself), the show and sale features gifty glass, ceramics, jewelry, photography, paintings and more, all representing the Park’s major visual arts organizations: Art Glass Center at Glen Echo, Glen Echo Glassworks, Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, Glen Echo Pottery, SilverWorks and Photoworks.  Among the items featured:

Animal Attractions 

For a child or the child within, watercolor collages of friendly elephant or monkey faces, in primary colors or black and gray (Michele Banks, $28)

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Your giftee will always look good reflected in these finely crafted walnut and zebra wood mirrors (Davrill Nash, $65-95)

Echoes of Glen Echo

“Happy Horse” painting, watercolor on paper (Mary Belcher, $360)

Unique photos from the carousel (Anthony Peritore, $135)

“Circus World,” mixed media (Marcie Wolf-Hubbard, $400)

“Wild Animals of the Glen Echo Carousel” note cards (Mary Belcher, $12)

A photographic Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Silver Jubilee Picture Book (The Puppet Co., $29.95)

Buying for Bejeweling

Stunning decoupage bead necklaces with Asian-inspired designs (Mary Mallia, Jewels for Scheherazade, $55)

Sinewy silver earrings (Blair Anderson, SilverWorks Studio and Gallery, $35-55)

Classy ‘n’ Glassy

Nature-inspired fused glass functional and sculptural pieces like the black rimmed rectangular red plate with gold pattern accents (Janet Wittenberg, Glass Habitat, $195)

For an artful father, brother or significant other, square cufflinks of diachronic glass (Sherry Selevan, $65)

Capitol Gains

For a distinctly Washington flavor, watercolor collages of the Capitol dome (Michele Banks, $28)

P is for Paintings, Pottery and Photos

If you can’t get enough of that fluffy white stuff: “Shenandoah Snow,” “Spring Tree in Snow,” “Barn in Snow” and “Tree in Snow” and other seasonal acrylic paintings (John Loverro, $125 each)

Perfect for hostess gifts, ceramic cheese plates and spread pots with assorted spreaders (wood, cloisonné, wrought iron handles) (Pam Berry, $28-34)

For the connoisseur of fine art photography, gelatin silver print nature photos (Gayle Rotschild, $750)

One-of-a-Kind Ornaments

Contemporary glass ornaments in Christmas-y shapes with beads and bells (Michele Rubin, $15-20)

Handmade Storybooks ornaments—write-on cards wrapped in beautiful Indian fabrics (Sushmita Mazumdar, $15)  

Classic glass candy cane ornaments (Paul Swartwood, medium, $18)

Gorgeous round ornaments decorated in colorful polymer clay (Kathryn Jo Ottman, $22)

Handwoven hand-pounded ash reindeer, stars (Kathryn Polletto, $6-8.50)

And for artful hanging, decorative metal ornament hangers (Tyler Whitmore, TylerMadeIt, $2 each or sets of 6 for $12)

The Holiday Art Show & Sale is at Glen Echo Park's (7300 Macarthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD).  Hours: through December 30, Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; December 21, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; December 24 and 31, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.  January 7 and 8, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed December 25 and January 1. Call 301-634-2222 or visit www.glenechopark.org for more information.