Jane Bruce discusses Lino Tagliapietra teaching Venetian glass techniques. Oral history interview with Jane Bruce by Barb Elam, March 22, 2016, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:14.

Jane Bruce: My personal opinion is that Lino was the best thing and the worst thing that could’ve happened to studio glass. He showed skill; what you can do when you get really, really, really skilled, but then there was a huge—and it’s not quite so bad now, but there was a huge shift in the students that were studying glass. All of a sudden, everyone wanted to be a Venetian glass blower. And a lot of other interesting techniques that actually come—I was trained as a Northern European glass blower—most of the glass blowers now in the States are trained as Venetian glass blowers. And it’s quite different techniques and it’s because the glass was very different. Northern European glass is usually a heavy lead crystal and Venetian glass is a soda lime glass, and it makes a big difference to what you can blow and how you blow it. So I think with Lino bringing back a level of skill and showing that level of skill, I think there’s less sort of experimental stuff in the hot shop.