Richard Yelle discusses the 1992 Dale Chihuly/Lino Tagliapietra Venetian series demonstration at the Brooklyn location of NYEGW. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 02:44.

Richard Yelle: So this 1992 event with Dale Chihuly and Lino was a important event for UrbanGlass—and it is the Brooklyn facility. And we probably had only been there a couple of years. And one of the reasons it was so interesting was that Lino was the real star of this event. And we’re more used to Dale being the, you know, the most important artist in the room, so to speak. And Lino has a great story. And fantastic skills. And he eventually became a board member at UrbanGlass, and is still on our advisory board. So he has been a big supporter all of these years, maybe 15 years, I want to say. These events—as I mentioned, I believe, earlier—were very popular with the public and with the glass collector community. And Tina and I think that this event may have gone on for quite a number of hours. And this may be one of the groups from New Jersey visiting. So you could expect these events to have a steady stream of visitors coming and going. And it was really good for UrbanGlass to have people in our facility because they could also look at the—whatever exhibit was in the gallery, and become familiar with Glass Magazine, and maybe even purchase something in our gift shop.