Donavon Boutz discusses his father, Jean, bringing glass in for the Penland workshop. Oral history interview with Donavon Boutz by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, April 23, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:39.

Donavon Boutz: Penland did not have the supplies on hand to do the glass work. I don’t know if they’d ordered them late or they hadn’t come, but I phoned my dad and had just had him bring up basically a truckload of glass so we—Dad came up and then Dad brought one of his sets of equipment and then he demonstrated how to make fancy Christmas ornaments, and I think most people who were collectors of my dad’s work think that he was the greatest living Christmas ornament maker in the country. He had a huge palette of colored glass that he could use, and he did the candy-striped ornaments, and one of the things that you can—and talking about that is my dad always worked in lead glass—and the borosilicate glasses, to this day still don’t have the color or the transparency, the vibrancy of lead crystal glass. So that my dad—I’m probably the person now, have the largest collection of raw materials for working in lead glass. And that part of the craft has never come back.