Ken Carder discusses the high concentration of glass artists at Penland and in the surrounding area. Oral history interview with Ken Carder by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, September 6, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:00.

Ken Carder: The glass community, there was a large number of private studios in this area, you know, per capita, in relation to the population, there was probably no more—a higher concentration of glass artists in anywhere. And, as a young glass artist hungry to develop my own original ideas, but to be able to feed off of all these other people that are there also pursuing original ideas and developing techniques. It was extraordinary. I mean, it still is—the Penland area and Mitchell and Yancey County, North Carolina, I think are—I mean, it’s just, there’s a vast number of very creative people in that part of the world, you know, and it’s—you can you can trace most of that back to Penland School. I mean, it’s just—you’re talking generations deep now.