Kristin Qualls talks about Wheaton’s Paperweight Weekends. Oral history interview with Kristin Qualls by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, July 26, 2019, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. Clip length: 01:12.

Kristin Qualls: I can only say what’s happening more recently with the Paperweight Fest and how that’s developed, but definitely the Delaware Valley Paperweight Collectors Association, part of the Paperweight Collectors Association, has—have always been actively involved. I’m not sure if that was the exact format of the partnership then or if those are all the same names of the organizations, but the paperweight collectors and artists have always been extremely involved in developing this programming. And so, again, I was at the meeting for next year’s Paperweight Fest on Tuesday. So it’s fresh in my mind. But again the idea of who are the people that the community wants to hear from, that are recognized experts, that we want to talk to; and again, it runs the gamut from just private club hobbyists to put a name to it, people who do it on their own free time, to people who are like curators that are paid to work with paperweights, to the artists who are working with them, to the dealers. So it really has to do with whom people in the community want to hear from and who’s a good speaker and engaging speaker to put on the Paperweight Fest. So it’s always been—the community’s been—the paperweight community has been very involved with creating the fests with us.