Jane Bruce & Dorie Guthrie

Teaches at UrbanGlass

Jane Bruce
Jane is an independent artist and educator based in New York City. Jane has always maintained the paired careers of maker and teacher. She teaches and exhibits internationally and her dual careers have taken her around the world, from Europe to the USA, to Australia and back again to the USA. Jane works in a range of techniques to create objects of delight and mini installations. Jane received a Master of Art & Design degree from the Royal College of Art, London, and undertook further post-graduate study at the NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred. Throughout her career she has been the recipient of a range of international Fellowships, Awards and Grants, and her work can be found in many prestigious museum collections world-wide

Dorie Guthrie
Born in 1982 in Moline, Illinois, Dorie 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.