Mary Shaffer talks about her experiences with sharing in early studio glass. Oral history interview with Mary Shaffer by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, March 21, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:43.

Mary Shaffer: I think that my influence towards others was probably stronger because it was conceptual and now there’s a lot of people internationally that are making great conceptual work. So I think because the glass world in the early days really was vessel and object-oriented and I wasn’t, as you can tell if I wanted my pieces to explode—[laughs] I probably didn’t care about the object, per se, but—yeah, I think we were just sharing ideas and techniques and as I said, I was more of a teacher to a lot of those young people in the beginning.