Jane Bruce talks about an important glass conference in London in the 1970s. Oral history interview with Jane Bruce, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:35.

Jane Bruce: One of the most important things that happened, I think, was—1976, ‘75, ‘76, there was a big conference in London; well, it wasn’t big. There was a conference in London, and it was the first sort of glass conference. It was called Hot Glass. And it was about a hundred and ninety people. And as Harvey Littleton said, if you—if someone dropped a bomb on the Royal College of Art during that conference you would actually wipe out the future of studio glass. And it was only a hundred and ninety people. So—and they were—at that conference it was Berto Valine, Klaus Moje, Jamie Carpenter, Gianni Toso, the Libenskýs—it was an amazing event. But even then it was—you know, it was the Libenskýs from Czechoslovakia, Klaus from Germany, Dale and Jamie from the States, Jan Rijkman from Sweden. So right from the start, it was pretty international, you know. And one of biggest—one of Harvey’s biggest influences was Erwin Eisch, when he met Erwin Eisch, who was a German—who is still alive, a German artist whose family actually were generations of glassmakers. So I think that’s different from anywhere else, you know. I tell my students, ‘If you get good at something in glass, you can go anywhere in the world,’ you know.