Ghost Optics
April 2, 2026 through December 31, 2026
In the Museum of American Glass

Visitors to the Museum of American Glass will encounter a site-specific window intervention by guest artist and curator, Jocelyne Prince. Her work, Ghost Optics, addresses early methods of flat glass and bottle glass production. Of particular interest to the artist was the variety of Americana imagery found on the historic glass bottles in the collection. Wanting to source these images as directly as possible, Prince dug into the WheatonArts mold collection and honed in on one particular mold, a flask for spirits, which had an inset for interchangeable emblems.

Portals & Passages
April 2, 2026 through December 31, 2026
In the Museum of American Glass

Curator Jocelyne Prince has brought together five artists: Justin Ginsberg, Romina Gonzales, Ashley Raye Harris, Matthew Day Perez, and Alexander Wenstrup, who have an acute understanding of how just a few millimeters of glass can shift our perception of the world. Each work in this exhibition catalyzes the optical and sculptural space that exists within a sheet of glass. 

TRANSPARENT THRESHOLDS SYMPOSIUM
November 6 & 7, 2026
WheatonArts
Millville, NJ

WheatonArts Fall Symposium is led by Jocelyne Prince and Anna Riley in conjunction
with the Museum of American Glass special exhibitions Portals and Passages and Ghost Optics.

How can the history of window and flat glass technology reshape contemporary practice with glass across various fields? How can revisiting this history help reframe dominant narratives about the built and technological environment? This symposium examines the evolution of flat glass manufacturing with the goal of broadening our understanding of material, labor, and craft in a mechanized age. Central to the symposium will be the “think-and-do” sessions combining discussion and hands-on testing of these processes. Lubbers draw, Fourcault draw, rolled, cast, and cylinder production methods will be applied to studio-scale experimentation.

Transparent Thresholds aims to bring together artists, scholars, architects and engineers to explore the embodied intelligence of industrial glassmaking and reclaim this history as a source of creative and educational innovation. Presenters include researchers and practitioners from glass, archeology, and material science. By bringing historical and industrial knowledge into the studio, this collaborative event seeks to expand the vocabulary of glassmaking, foster interdisciplinary discussion, and generate new forms of creative and technical engagement.