Jennifer Frazier
Project Director, Visualization Laboratory
Jennifer Frazier arrived at the Exploratorium in 2004 to develop exhibits and multimedia for the museum’s Microscope Imaging Station and Traits of Life collection. Before joining the Exploratorium, she created exhibits, multimedia, and documentary films at NOVA, the National Academy of Sciences, The Tech Museum of Innovation, and several multimedia companies. Jennifer received her PhD in cell biology from UCSF, where, as an NSF and AAAS Fellow, she used advanced imaging techniques to study polymer assembly during cell division. She has a BS in bioethics and genetics from the University of California, Davis.
Tom Rockwell
Associate Director for Program, Exploratorium
Visual arts training and a lifelong interest in combining art and science led Tom to work first as a science museum educator at The Franklin Institute and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and then as a designer and construction coordinator of community-built science parks and playgrounds with Leathers and Associates in Ithaca, New York. In 1995, Tom founded Painted Universe, Inc. to pursue exhibit design, fabrication, and scientific illustration. Painted Universe’s projects included exhibits for the Materials Research Society; traveling exhibitions, such as It’s a Nano World and Too Small To See (with the Ithaca Sciencenter and Cornell University); The Enchanted Museum: Exploring the Science of Art (with the Berkshire Museum); and illustrations for The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. In 2005, Tom joined the Exploratorium and is currently a Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation-supported Geometry Playground, and Co-Principal Investigator on several projects, including the Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) Network.
Pam Winfrey
Senior Artist, Exploratorium
Pamela Winfrey joined the Exploratorium in 1979. Recent exhibitions curated by Winfrey include Virtual Unreality (2007), Liminality (2007), Reconsidered Materials (2006), and Art Life (2004), an exploration of artworks with human and living attributes. In celebration of the fifth anniversary of Irvine, California’s Bealle Center, she curated Five, an exhibition that featured five interactive media artists from different countries. She has served as a panelist for Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) in the interactive arts category. In 2007, she was the lead curatorial consultant for Creative Capital’s emerging art forms.
Ms. Winfrey is a playwright and performer. She was a founding member of Mobius Operandi, an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble. During her tenure with the company, they produced two CDs and five large-scale performances. The Sounding, Winfrey’s drama based on the laying of the Atlantic cable, was read at Science on Stage 2004 at the Magic Theatre. Plays and performance works by Winfrey have been presented at numerous venues around the country. She received a Marin Arts Council Independent Artist Award and a Sloan grant for Celestial Bodies, a play about the first female radio astronomer. She has also received awards from both the Marin Arts Council and NJNG Productions in New York for a new recording of an untitled musical that she is writing with Christie Winn.