James Carpenter talks about learning to blow glass at Venini through RISD’s European Honors Program. Oral history interview with James Carpenter by Barb Elam and Jesse Merandy, September 20, 2018, JCDA Studios, New York, New York. Clip length: 00:43.

James Carpenter: I graduated from RISD, I went ‘71-72 on the program from the school’s European Honors Program. And then I went and worked at Venini for a year in Venice, and Dale came over and we did some stuff in Europe together for a period of time and I sort of side-stepped this. I actually really did focus on learning how to blow glass. I mean designing things for Venini and learning the process of blowing glass sort of in the Venetian way, using, you know, the marvering tables and all of that. And sort of brought that back a little bit when I came back to RISD, and I taught at Berkeley [University of California, Berkeley] first and then I got hired at RISD; I actually ran their natural history museum. They had a natural history museum on campus.