JOCELYNE PRINCE

risd connection: Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Glass; adjunct faculty, Digital Media Department; RISD MFA in Glass, 1994; teaching at RISD since 1995

about her work: Glass artist and sculptor Jocelyne Prince creates quirky works in glass and a variety of unconventional materials, often on a large scale. For example, the 700-pound Static Virus contains vintage television sets rolled into a big ball of lint. Prince’s Disco Ball for the New Millennium is a large-scale, motorized spherical sculpture that incorporates and diagrams the “caustic curve reflection phenomenon,” in which constantly changing light reflections are projected on gallery walls. To create Ghosts: Discarded Socks and Found Mittens, she blew glass into socks and mittens, preserving the shapes of the articles as she destroyed them and displaying the resulting homely objects in ordinary cardboard boxes as if set out for a yard sale.

about the artist: Prince started teaching in RISD’s Glass Department immediately after earning her MFA here, and now teaches in the Digital Media Department as well. She was a visiting artist at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Toyama, Japan, in 2004; taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in the summer of 2002; was an adjunct assistant professor of visual art at Brown University in 2001-02, and adjunct assistant professor in sculpture at the Maine College of Art the previous year. She has also taught at the Bild-Werk Academy in Frauenau, Germany, and the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA.

selected solo exhibitions
2002 Projections-Watermark Taxonomy, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2000 Disco Ball for the New Millennium, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Mobius Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Viruses, Galerie Articule, Montréal, Québec
1994 Retinal Schism, 532 Kinsley, Providence, RI
1991 Double Salon: Tête Qui Pense, Corps Qui Pese, The Franco-Manitoban Cultural Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba

selected group exhibitions
2006 20 years on, Ebeltoft Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
2003 Other Side of the Looking Glass: The Glass Body and its Metaphors, Turtle Bay Museum, Redding, CA
2003 The Poetry of Science, The Gallery, One Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY
2003 20/20 Vision, The Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
2001 Visionary Women, The Gallery, One Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY
2000 Constellation, New Art Center, Newton, MA
1999 On the Ball: The Sphere in Contemporary Sculpture, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1998 Rapid Eye Movement, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
1997 Home Invasion, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Glass 97, Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
1997 Lloyd Martin/Jocelyne Prince, Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI

selected honors and awards
2000 Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship
2000, 1998, 1989 Travel Grant, Canada Council
1998 Jerome Grant, Franconia Sculpture Park
1995 Project Grant, Canada Council
1994 Award of Excellence, RISD
1992-94 Full Scholarship Grant, Québec Ministry of Education

selected collections
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, NJ The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

education
RISD, MFA in Glass, 1994
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BFA, 1985