Dandee Pattee grew up in Wyoming and currently lives and teaches in the Washington DC area. She is an artist-in-residence at Red Dirt Studio and also teaches classes at Baltimore Clayworks. Pattee studied ceramics at Southern Utah University and earned her graduate degree at the University of Florida. In addition to these, Pattee completed a post-bac program at the University of Nebraska and a two-year apprenticeship with studio potter Silvie Granatelli in Floyd, VA.