Gay LeCleire Taylor discusses how the CGCA fellowship filled a pocket need for studio glass artists. Oral history interview with Gay LeCleire Taylor, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:37.

Gay LeCleire Taylor: Well, actually we give them a stipend, we give them a house to live in, so it has no charge to them—all they have to do is find their way once they’re juried in. And we really sustain them, so they have a body of work when they’re finished to go out. So that was sort of a pocket need in the studio movement that we saw that wasn’t available before. And now there’s so many other teaching situations around where you can go and get a fellowship or get a paid way to go, but back then, in 1983, there wasn’t anything like that.