Dan Dailey discusses meeting Lino Tagliapietra at Pilchuck School of Glass. Oral history interview with Dan Dailey by Barb Elam, April 26, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:48.

Dan Dailey: Let’s see. I met Lino at Pilchuck. I was teaching a class. Ben Moore had invited Checco Ongaro to come to the school to—Venetian glassblower from Venini, and Checco—I already knew Checco cause I worked at Venini. But Checco came one summer and then deci—he got invited to come back. He said he couldn’t come, but he said, ‘What about taking my brother-in-law, who is Lino.’ Lino went, and when he came—I don’t know if that was the summer I met him or not. I think it could be the one after. Whatever it was, I speak Italian—they wanted him to be more involved in a class situation so Lino came with Lina  [Ongaro-Tagliapietra] and they were there for the whole class, and I would translate or make it as much as possible a dual lecture as much as a dual demo because the things that we were making were one thing, but people need time to talk and, so—it was good to be able to interact with the students that way—you know, interpret their questions to him—and the other way around—his comments. So I liked working with Lino and I was connected with Haystack [Haystack Mountain School of Crafts] at that time, on their board and so on, and I taught classes there too, so I invited Lino to teach a class with me at Haystack And I also asked Milton Glaser to come up during that time to Haystack, so that we were there, all in this kind of workshop. You know, Haystack’s a much different type of school—not class dedicated—and not so facility concentrated, very flexible studios, and minimal too. But, I think Lino appreciated the crudeness of that facility and what its purpose was to promote exchange and development of ideas and so on.