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 twelve years, Dorie taught and worked on staff at the Pilchuck Glass School, and has been a teacher’s assistant at Bild-Werk, Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. Ms. Guthrie was selected to demonstrate flameworking at the 2013 Glass Art Society Conference in Toledo, Ohio. She was featured in Winter 2019 of GLASHAUS magazine and was also nominated for New Glass Review 42. Before uprooting to Brooklyn, NY, Dorie worked at a Bullseye Resource Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently teaches kiln casting, flameworking, fusing, and imagery techniques at UrbanGlass + Salem Community College and fabricates for artists.
