Ferdinand Hampson discusses Paul Hollister writing for Habatat Galleries. Oral history interview with Ferdinand Hampson by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 3, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:53.

Ferdinand Hampson: In 1981, I did a, I had an idea for a show. It was called Glass, Artist, and Influence. And the idea was if you took any one of the artists out, you know, they weren’t there, it would alter the history of what had happened so far in studio glass. And so I assembled the artists, [inaudible] and then the catalog—I mean, the exhibition, which I was working with a smaller museum in Michigan. The Detroit Institute of Arts said, ‘Oh, I like that exhibit. I want—I’d like to have that exhibit. We’d like to travel it.’ And so I’m delighted with that. However, when I submitted the catalog to them, they said, ‘Well, the director of the Detroit Institute can’t possibly write something when a commercial gallery has written something.’ And so the little museum stood up to them completely, and said, ‘Well then you can’t have the exhibit.’ And they were somewhat taken aback. Well, then the agreement that we made was that if I could have a published author co-sign it, then they would allow it. So I contacted Paul [Hollister] and submitted to him the information, and he made some, well, minor revisions to it, and so we co-published it, and it ultimately went to like 13 different museums.