Jane Bruce discusses the transition from NYEGW’s Mulberry Street location to Brooklyn. Oral history interview with Jane Bruce, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:13.

Jane Bruce: When we closed Mulberry Street we discovered that sixty artists had keys to Mulberry Street. Cause we all had keys. I mean, I would go in at six o’clock in the morning to blow glass because it was quiet. And that changed when we went to the Strand, as it was known. The Strand Theater. No more keys, you know. It became—it had to change, it had to become more institutionalized, I think, because—you know, we needed grants, we needed funding, so we had to—you know, we had to up our game I guess. We had to become—and it was, the move was—back then it cost almost two million to build the Strand in ‘91. You know. So we—and none of us really knew, I can’t even remember how we managed to raise the money, because none of us were fundraisers. I mean we were sending out grants. Tina was writing grants, but, you know, none of us were professional fundraisers or anything like that. So the fact that we actually moved it I think is pretty amazing.