Dwight Lanmon discusses The Corning Museum’s founding Director Thomas Buechner and the studio glass movement. Oral history interview with Dwight Lanmon by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 5, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:04.

Dwight Lanmon: You know, so Bill [William] Warmus and Susanne [Frantz] are really the people that were involved at that point and Tom Buechner. I mean, don’t forget Tom Buechner, who I think is really central to the success of the studio glass movement. Tom as president when I went there as chief curator, he established a policy that we spent half of our money, half of all the acquisitions funds went to contemporary glass. And the other half went to the entire history of glass, so, and we only had like a hundred thousand dollars a year at that point—to make acquisitions. So fifty-thousand was devoted to contemporary glass and then very important, I think, in the development of the recognition of contemporary glass, of sculpture was not only Glass ’79, the exhibition, but starting The New Glass Review, which was Tom Buechner’s baby. Tom really started that and carried it.