Michelle Millar Fisher & Dorie Guthrie

Teaches at UrbanGlass

Michelle Millar Fisher
Michelle Millar Fisher is a Curatorial Assistant in the Architecture + Design department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a doctoral candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, she worked at the Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, she has co-organized the exhibitions Design and Violence, This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, and From the Collection: 1960-1969. She also lectures at Parsons The New School for Design and The Frick Collection. She is currently at work co-editing a book on collaboration in the visual arts and architecture, to be published by Courtauld Books Online in 2016.

Dorie Guthrie
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.