Mark Peiser talks about the early studio movement, glass marbles, and teaching himself to blow glass. Oral History Interview with Mark Peiser by Catherine Whalen, February 25, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:08.

Mark Peiser: Well, you know, the studio movement started with the Johns-Manville 475 fiberglass [marbles] as the glass that they were using. I mean, it was—I’m sure it was done just because it was convenient and available. I didn’t need to know—again, I’m working by myself down in, you know, the mountains. But I didn’t need to know much about blowing glass. This is back—this stuff just—I had a big poster on the wall of some Swedish gob—beautiful stemware things, you know. I think [laughs]—you know, I’m trying to—of course, I didn’t know how to blow, really, but I just knew this stuff was not going to make that, you know. So I figured figuring out the glass was part of the job description. So well, through a number of initial experiences, I realized, ‘Hey, I can do this.’