Susie Silbert discusses what intrigued her about glass. Oral history interview with Susie Silbert by Catherine Whalen, February 25, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:54.

Susie Silbert: So I knew going into college that I wanted to study glass, and when I enrolled in a glass class at the University of Wisconsin Madison where the first university glass program was, I learned that it is true: glass is very difficult. And I am pretty tenacious, so I kept going, and I think what I found and continue to find in working with the material even now as a curator is that—is that I appreciate the way that it combines artistic impulse, aesthetic impulses, and body to science. So whether or not an artist can write the chemical expressions for what’s happening, people that are successful in glass understand at a really intimate level chemistry and physics, and I am sort of endlessly fascinated by that relationship.