Gary Beecham discusses sharing at Paul Stankard’s flameworking workshop.

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Gary Beecham

Gary Beecham discusses sharing at Paul Stankard’s flameworking workshop. Oral history interview with Gary Beecham by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, April 11, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:40.

Gary Beecham: This was a really important workshop cause it was the first time that a major name in lampworking was willing to show how he did his stuff. Before that, lampworking has traditionally been very secretive. I worked with a guy who was a lampworker when I worked up at Milropa Studios in [Queens] New York and he said that we never show anybody anything; we’re very secretive. We were running a production art glass shop, and the instruction was if anybody comes to the door, you shut the door. If anybody comes in the studio, you leave.