William Gudenrath talks about early studio glass makers’ creativity not being burdened by technical skill. Oral history interview with William Gudenrath, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:38.

William Gudenrath: The fact that so many of the early practitioners didn’t have any of the control of the material that had evolved through industry. They were coming to it from a casual point of view, without technical skills that had always been associated with glass. I’m talking about glassworking at the furnace, for example. So there was the possibility of a level of creativity that wasn’t burdened with the history of what the hands were used to doing and what the hands knew how to do. You know, that was an interesting thing.