Biography
Diane C. Wright received her MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons the New School for Design, specializing in glass studies. She has conducted research and lectured on glass for a number of institutions including the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Blair House, and The Freer/Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution. She recently completed a three-year term as a Fellow in the American Decorative Arts Department at the Yale University Art Gallery where she pursued research on Yale’s collection of early American Glass and began building a collection of contemporary glass for the Museum. She has worked as an Educator at the Corning Museum of Glass where she taught about glass making history and techniques to students of all ages.
Ms. Wright has extensively researched the leaded glass windows and mosaics of Tiffany Studios at churches across the country. Her graduate thesis presented the first in-depth study of Frederick Wilson, Louis C. Tiffany’s most prolific window designer and head of the ecclesiastic department at Tiffany Studios. In 2009 she published an article on the life and work of Frederick Wilson in the Journal of Glass Studies (Corning Museum of Glass). She is currently a co-curator for the forthcoming exhibition, “Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion” and is contributing an essay for the accompanying catalogue (published by the Museum of Biblical Art in conjunction with D. Giles, 2012).
Ms. Wright currently teaches courses on the history of glass at the Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons the New School for Design and George Mason University, and has published on contemporary glass in Modern Magazine, the Yale Alumni Magazine and the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin. She is the recipient of the 2011 Rakow Grant for Glass Research from the Corning Museum of Glass.