Amanda Patenaude & Dorie Guthrie

Teaches at UrbanGlass

Amanda Patenaude blends community, crafting and environmental awareness in her work ranging from collaborative and interactive installations to intimate objects and upcycled animations. She has created, taught and exhibited from Philadelphia, to New Orleans, Bergan Norway and Brooklyn NY. Amanda received her BFA in 2011 from Illinois State University working in both the glass and ceramic departments. In 2014 she was an artist in residence at Grand Central Art Center, working with the community of Santa Ana to deconstruct our relationship to plastics and our water ways. Through collaborative clean ups and an interactive gallery space, their living sculpture transformed trash and the community.She is currently working with her local Park Conservancy on engaging projects utilizing the found broken glass.

Born in 1982 in Moline, Illinois, Dorie Guthrie was first exposed to the medium when she stumbled upon a small glass studio in her hometown. Since graduating from Illinois State University in 2008, Guthrie has continued her studies, being awarded scholarships, at Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Craft, and Pittsburgh Glass Center where she furthered her technique. Over the last five years Dorie worked on staff at the Pilchuck Glass School, and also has been a teacher’s assistant at Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. Miss Guthrie was selected to demonstrate flameworking at the 2013 Glass Art Society Conference in Toledo, Ohio. Before uprooting to Brooklyn, Dorie taught kilncasting, flameworking, fusing, and imagery techniques at Brazee Street Studio, a Bullseye Resource Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.