BIO:

Jocelyn Chan was born in 1998 in Hong Kong. Her recent works focus mostly on sound because of her love of music. As a recipient of a Takano Sano Scholarship, her recent works have been recognized by the Glass Art Society. In 2020, she was awarded a Catherine Hokin Scholarship from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Art Department. She continues to create challenging works and strives to become a professional artist in the future. Jocelyn Chan will receive her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Glass and Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in May 2021 and currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

As a musician, with absolute pitch, the ability to recognize a pitch without an external reference, sound is an integral part of how Jocelyn experiences the world.  Through her collection of glass work, she takes the audience to examine the different sounds created by glass. Sounds can be dramatic when created with the transparency of glass. Each tone and pitch can be generated by either the thickness of glass, or the materials that hit the glass. Similarly, she visualizes sound in the form of soundwaves, vibration and modified music scores in my two-dimensional printmaking work. By experiencing sound in different ways, audiences develop a range of thoughts and reactions. Jocelyn is most intrigued with evoking emotive, healing, personal, and political responses. She always has the feeling that audiences prioritize the sense of vision for appreciating and experiencing an artwork, which shows how little we make use of our other senses.