Karen Chambers discusses Czech glass artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova coming to NYEGW. Oral history interview with Karen Chambers by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, June 14, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:38.

Karen Chambers: And then there were people like the Libenskys [Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova] from the Czech Republic, who used to be—they would—only one would come because the Communist government did not want the possibility of them defecting. And then things opened up and they did come. And so there’s a strong glass tradition in Czechoslovakia—a number of Czech artists came to do workshops. I can’t think of any that came to actually teach on an ongoing basis.