Ken Carder talks about why he attended Paul Stankard’s flameworking workshop. Oral history interview with Ken Carder by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, September 6, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:14.

Ken Carder: Well, it was—you know, anytime you can expand your knowledge about a material, it seems to have advantages, so. I think it was one, it was the mystery of seeing how this could be done, you know, encapsulating these three-dimensional figures in hot glass without trapping—or trapping a very minimal amount of air. That was for me, you know, a great mystery. And the other thing was, at that point, I don’t think I had met Paul [Stankard]. In fact, I don’t recall, you know, I mean—we were all showing at—there wasn’t a huge amount of galleries and a number of us showed at similar galleries, so that there’s a chance, but at that point, I don’t think I had met Paul. I’m sure Mark [Peiser] probably had known Paul at that point. And I knew of his work, obviously, but I don’t think we’d actually met, maybe, and things. So the other part of it was just, you know, to meet Paul Stankard.