Jocelyne Prince is an artist and professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is known for her experimental approach to glass. Whether based in performance, installation or object-making, her work consistently investigates material as a site of transformation and wonder. She thrives in the act of making; engaging hands-on with materials and allowing them to guide form and meaning. The body, the studio, and material are always in conversation. Collaboration is another key element in her process and working with fellow artists or a site-specific location is central to her studio practice. Her Live Event works cultivates a responsive approach to making and promotes a multi-tiered path of inquiry, provoking discussions that embrace history, presence, attention, and change.
Recent awards include a United States Artist Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholar award (Czech Republic) and a Center for Craft Research grant. Other notable fellowships and awards include: the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, and the Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).Jocelyne earned a B.F.A. from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. She exhibits work in museums and alternative spaces across North America, Asia, and Europe.
Anna Riley is an artist and doctoral student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Working from the belief that making is a way of knowing, she develops projects that combine creative practice and archival research. She studies materials and objects that shift across contexts as museum artifact, tourist souvenir, scientific specimen, and collectable craft. Through this work she attends closely to the crafting of scientific knowledge about artisans and their processes.
Anna’s work has been supported by artist residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design, Dieu Donné Papermill, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, and WheatonArts. She has received grants from the Center for Craft, Brooklyn Arts Council, UC Berkeley, and Bard Graduate Center. She has presented at conferences such as the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, the Annual Seminar on Glass at the Corning Museum, and Materiality and the Making of Art at Rice University. Her sculptures have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Arts and Design, the Corning Museum, the Museum of American Glass, and BRIC Arts Media.
Mary Mills is the Director of Exhibitions and Collections at WheatonArts, as well as the curator for the Museum of American Glass. She also serves as historic glass specialist for AECOM Cultural Resources, assisting archaeologists in identifying and interpreting glass artifacts recovered in Philadelphia.
Mary formerly held the position of Education Programs Manager at The Corning Museum of Glass, where she received the Richards Award for Research in American Glass and is now a Fellow. She lectures extensively and has taught American and European glass for graduate programs at the Winterthur Museum, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Mary holds a master’s degree from the University of Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She has served on many nonprofit boards and has been a Trustee of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass since 2005.
Peter Drobny is an innovator/problem solver. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he has over four decades of design and hands-on experience. His knowledge, insight and skill have guided exceptional projects; he was instrumental in the Architect of the Capitol cupola restoration, the Innovation Gallery at the Corning Museum of Glass, a wealth of Steuben Glass Works designs and projects, as well as some early James Carpenter architectural ventures. Peter has a deep interest in the history of glass factories and the industrial processes that shaped glass in the 19th and 20th centuries. When not thinking about glass he is consumed by his sailboat Rozmar on the Finger Lakes in upper New York State.
