Donavon Boutz discusses his father Jean encouraging him to continue lampworking. Oral history interview with Donavon Boutz by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, April 23, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:59.

Donavon Boutz: From my perspective one of the things that my dad talked to me about a lot was not letting the craft die in my lifetime, and so I think that I’ve been a part of keeping that from happening, I think, lampworking in spite of the fact they’re making pot pipes—there is—the craft is alive and well, I think both Paul Stankard’s children are good paperweight makers. There’s a couple of other really good floral paperweight makers out on the west coast, and so I feel very satisfied in that lampworking as a craft did not end in the 20th century.