Mary Shaffer talks about being a Wheaton fellow at the same time as Lino Tagliapietra. Oral history interview with Mary Shaffer by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, March 21, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:23.

Mary Shaffer: Okay. Wheaton Village was really important. It was important to me because I’d had a fire in my house, so I didn’t have a place to work and they invited me to be a visiting artist. And Jane Bruce was there, I think she’s the one that either taught me—I think she taught me how to polish glass, which was amazing. And Lino [Tagliapietra] was there. I mean that was a very important time for, I think all of us that were there. Lino was just starting out here, and I think Wheaton Village continues to be that, because they have these residencies where artists can go and work and have free materials and a free place to live. So—I mean that was a very important kind of center for people.