Shop Made in DC in Georgetown

The shop sits on a busy stretch of Wisconsin Avenue between M Street and Reservoir Road, in a storefront that once housed a clothing retailer. Step through the door and the industrial bones of the space announce themselves immediately: raw fixtures and displays built by DC craftspeople, gallery walls hung with rotating work by local artists, and roughly 1,800 square feet arranged so that nearly every surface holds something made within the city limits or just across its borders.

Stacey Price founded Shop Made in DC in 2017, after consulting on space activation for developers brought her face-to-face with an empty Dupont Circle storefront and a clear idea of what to put inside it. Price grew up in Martinsville, Virginia, where her parents worked in furniture factories, and she carried that proximity to manufacturing into a career in DC small business development. In 2012, Etsy hired her to teach a course called Market Your Localness, where she met more than 200 local makers and saw that no dedicated retail channel existed for their work. She launched the first location within four months of identifying the Dupont property, with co-founder Michael Babin of Neighborhood Restaurant Group. The Georgetown location opened as the third store in August 2019, and by then the business had already distributed more than two million dollars to DC makers.

The store stocks goods from roughly 100 local makers at any time, spanning apothecary and skincare, apparel, jewelry, furniture, home decor, and stationery. Makers include District Batch, a natural skincare line, and Hugh and Crye, a menswear brand known for shirts sized to body geometry rather than collar and sleeve. Fine artists rotate through the gallery walls, and Price updates the mix regularly, so a return visit a few months later will surface names and objects that were not there before. Over 95 percent of the makers carry a DC address. Price scouts talent partly through Instagram, working through a waiting list that at last count exceeded 500 designer applicants.

Classes run on a regular schedule and lean toward accessibility. Weekly Watercolors on Friday evenings gives participants a structured session with all materials included. Open craft hours allow people to bring their own projects and work alongside others. Workshops in the range of zero to fifty dollars cover skills from painting to textile work, each led by a maker who already sells in the store. Price has described the business as a retail incubator, a place where a new maker can build a track record before approaching larger wholesale accounts.

The store is open every day from 11am to 7pm. Gift buying is probably the most common first-time use case, and the price range runs wide enough to accommodate a ten-dollar card alongside a two-hundred-dollar ceramic. For a first visit, the jewelry cases near the entrance offer a dense survey of what local craft looks like at its most wearable. Classes and workshops book through the store website and fill quickly, particularly the Friday evening watercolor sessions.