Kristin Qualls discusses scheduling of demos and events at Wheaton’s Glass Weekends. Oral history interview with Kristin Qualls by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, July 26, 2019, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. Clip length: 01:23.

Kristin Qualls: In general for the Glass Weekends, for example, it’s a multiple day event, and then usually there’s slots when the glass studio is doing demonstrations, so it might be, say, Saturday afternoon demonstrations in the glass studio. And then that sort of split out since we have multiple benches, they try the best they can to organize it, so while one artist is just doing the setup, another artist is in the really high-intensity part of their piece, and then another artist is maybe breaking it off in his put it in the anneal—like you’re trying to set it up so that you’re not, you don’t want to eclipse each other, but you want to keep the action going, because it gets boring to sit there and watch someone set up the perfect bubble for half an hour, so you have that happening to balance it out. So that’s a lot on the studio manager to bring all these artists together at once and see how they can work together in the same studio in front of an audience, and make their pieces. So it would usually be specific demo times during these long weekends, or again more recently we had Studio Wide Open, which would be an open late evening that we’ve now merged with Wheaton Wednesdays, that again would be more of a local—folks to come in just for the evening, and get studio tours with the fellows. Or again, it’s an open studio, so we’re open to the public 10 to five; at any given moment you’re walking in and an artist is making something.