Karen Chambers discusses writing about glass. Oral history interview with Karen Chambers by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, June 14, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:57.

Karen Chambers: You know, at first I was interested in the so-called fine arts, but I found that scene really boring in the early eighties. And I can’t pinpoint why I thought that, because I was interested in contemporary art and so I haunted the galleries and I saw what was up, and that’s—I would have liked to have begun writing about that, but I didn’t have an opportunity, so when glass came along it was like, ‘Okay, I can do this.’ As we all know, it’s a fascinating medium, and I have watched a hundred blowing sessions and I still am intrigued by it, and I liked the intersection of so-called craft and so-called fine art, and how they touch one another occasionally.