Flo Perkins talks about studio glass as sculpture. Oral history interview with Flo Perkins by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 20, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:07.

Flo Perkins: I always tried not to do a business, I did not do production, I did not go to craft fairs, I was trying to stay purist on the sculpture track and—the word arrogant might come in there, I don’t know, but at the time that was the big topic, you know, can we get glass into the realm of sculpture? So I didn’t do craft fairs. I didn’t repeat my objects. I didn’t make it a business. I was trying to do it as a studio as someone would be a stone carver, or a metal worker. I tried to have glassblowing be my studio process and material for sculpture. And that was a hot topic in those days. And so in order, so what I could do, I built a very small studio here. And I could run the furnace, make my parts and then turn it all down low to make the pieces, I had to do a whole bunch of fabrication after I blew the parts, but I would like, idle the furnace instead of turning it on and off as it became later in life I had to make all my parts and be sure I had what I needed and turn it all off because it had become so expensive.