Susie Silbert discusses the “selectors” she chose for New Glass Now. Oral history interview with Susie Silbert by Catherine Whalen, February 25, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:37.

Susie Silbert: You know, it’s an interesting thing, this idea of whether they’re jurors or selectors or guest curators or whatever. In the 1959 show that methodology was so new that they didn’t even use the term ‘juror,’ and the idea that there could be any women on this panel was so outside of the realm that the museum—and in the catalog they’re just referred to as ‘the gentlemen.’ So I think of it, I tried to get away from the word ‘juror,’ because I think ‘jury’ mostly we use that in a binary sense. It’s guilty, not guilty, and my experience of going through this new glass process where everybody is looking at the work together and conversing about it is much less binary. It’s much more the result of conversations, and it’s not like, you know, it’s good, not good. So, anyway, the selectors are Aric Chen, who is a design writer and curator at large at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong for visual culture. Susanne Jøker Johnsen, who is a glass maker with a really fine attention to craft, but also a curator in Denmark who does the biennial exhibitions, European Glass Context and European Ceramic Context. And then Beth Lipman, who’s an artist whose practice is rooted in glass but is much more expensive than that, from Wisconsin. And so each of them, you know, Beth with an attention to art, Suzanne especially with an attention to craft, Aric with an attention to design, really created this layered approach that I was looking for.