Mary Shaffer discusses Bruce Chao’s work. Oral history interview with Mary Shaffer by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, March 21, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:30.

Mary Shaffer: But the person that was the best glassblower back then was Bruce Chao. So Bruce Chao would blow glass and every morning you came in, there would be a wall with all the work that had been blown the night before, taken out of the kiln, and Bruce was the innovator. He would start something and then everybody was copying him—including Dale [Chihuly]. You know, so Bruce was really the most creative of the students there.