For 12 years Amelie Guthrie has worked with multiple organizations in the U.S. and abroad to bring environmental art education to underserved communities. Among those were Arte Para Todos, which Guthrie founded in Buenos Aires, and the Children's Museum of the Arts in NYC. Guthrie also served on the board of Turnip Green Creative Reuse in Nashville, a non-profit that provides the community with environmental art education and diverts materials from landfill by offering them at their donation-based art shop. Through these experiences, she witnessed the power of art to motivate people to advocate for better treatment of the Earth. Guthrie is also a visual artist who uses metal and thread to exalt the beauty and the vulnerability of our suffering Mother Earth. With her work, Guthrie calls for policy change in our state and country to better protect our home, especially Louisiana's wetlands. Now back in her hometown of New Orleans, she seeks to serve CGR with her passion for community education, her non-profit experience, as well as her mutual love of our swampy home and the natural world beyond.

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