Ferdinand Hampson discusses studio glass collectors and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass [AACG]. Oral history interview with Ferdinand Hampson by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 31, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:14.

Ferdinand Hampson: Well, I think based on the excitement and based on so many people being of the same age and also being so many people from the Jewish community, there was a camaraderie. And so a man in New Jersey, Jerry Raphael, started a group and it morphed now into what is the AACG [Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass]. And that—you know, all of a sudden people would join this national organization. And it was exciting because now they had people of common interests, and they would get to know each other. And I started doing trips abroad, or elsewhere. And we’d have sometimes as many as 50 collectors at these. Well, during these trips these people would get to know each other and become friends, and it became a national network of people that were all excited about what was occurring in glass.