Greene Glass 101: Rethinking and Remaking Our Recycling
Taught by Amanda Patenaude
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 was most recently, worked as Artist in Residence for three months in the STARWorks NC Glass Lab. Currently, Amanda is leading a series of collaborative events with Fort Greene Park Conservancy on community engaging projects utilizing found broken glass found within the park. www.amandapatenaude.com
In this hands-on studio class, artist Amanda Patenaude will share basic, low-tech glass techniques to rethink and redesign waste glass into new upcycled possibilities.
We'll start with a brief lecture on how her community art projects, including her current collaboration with The Fort Greene Park Conservancy, transform and engage neighborhoods through their broken glass. Inspired to action, we will head into the studio to explore simple methods to cut glass, add graphics and collage decal imagery.
Students will transform found glass bottles and packaging to discover new utilitarian objects such as dishware, planters, lighting and more. Students are welcome to bring in their own found glass to experiment on! Students will leave this class empowered to head home and recraft their own recycling bin.
