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Patric Santerre
,born 1961 in Millinocket, Maine, is an industrial designer, licensed architect, sculptor and educator.

Santerre left Millinocket, a papermill town in 1979, to study architectural engineering at Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland, where he received an Associate of Arts degree in 1982. That same year he was accepted into the School of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he first met and studied under Robert F. Graeff, HfG, SiD Professor and Director of the Center of Product and Environmental Design. Robert - the son of Werner Graeff a student of the Bauhaus in Weimar - graduated with a degree in Product Design from the Ulm Institute of Design in Germany. His teachings along with Virginia Tech professors Robert Dunay, Olivio Ferrari and Dennis Kilper, greatly influenced Santerre in his development as an architect/designer. Santerre was particularly inspired by the work of Swiss-Italian Rationalist architect Rudy Hunziker, a Visiting Professor at Virginia Tech in 1985. During a presentation of Hunziker's residential architecture, in which he described how the sky is connected to a window from a vertical linear void emanating from the roof edge down a facade to a window, Santerre returned to his studio desk and proceeded to draw a single orthographic line outlining a human eye, an invention he coined "orbing." Subsequently, Santerre used this single line, orthographic drawing technique to paint his first concrete paintings comprised of a single line "orbbed" drawing on glass, with fields filled additionally with paint, then sandwiched with concrete and a wire mesh woven in a grid through a hardwood frame. Later that semester, Santerre visited his close friend and fellow sculptor Lester Bill in Baltimore who provided Santerre with a flat plate of 1" steel and oxyacetylene torch to sculpt his first orbbed bust called Fred Camp.

In 1994, Santerre received a Creative Arts Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship from the College of Applied and Fine Arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where he studied and received his Master of Industrial Design degree in 1997. He remained at the University at the request of Andrzej Wroblewski, chair of the industrial design program for an additional year, receiving an appointment to teach as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Industrial Design.