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
