Richard Yelle speaks about NYEGW as a growing  organization. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 02:07.

Richard Yelle: And there’s a lot of interesting people at Mulberry Street. And then you already heard the story of Tina [Yelle] coming back from Europe. And I needed a director on short notice. And I gave her the job. And I was busy at that time at Parsons School of Design [New York, New York] where I was the head of the Crafts Program. And, you know, I wasn’t able to do that job myself. But I was at that time, the chairman of the board of directors, I believe. And I—we had started writing grants and getting funding from NYSCA [New York Statue Council on the Arts] and the NEA [National Endowment for the Arts] back at Great Jones Street. But we were on a much higher scale at Mulberry. And so I worked on forming a more substantial board of directors. And that has been, as you can imagine, a 40 year process of building up and then maintaining a real board of directors. And of course, that was the most important thing for us when we had to move to Brooklyn, because all of a sudden we were raising millions of dollars. So thank goodness for those 10 years at Mulberry Street, when we sort of were practicing [laughs] to be a bigger organization.