Susie Silbert discusses the need for a comprehensive look at glass in a global context. Oral history interview with Susie Silbert by Catherine Whalen, February 25, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:00.

Susie Silbert: One thing that I think about in my position and looking at the history of glass and looking at what I think is there and what I think could really be there, is I see that there hasn’t really been a great comprehensive look at international contemporary glass since Susanne Frantz’s book in 1989, which is a while ago now, Contemporary Glass. And I see that there’s an opportunity to really talk about in a—in a much more cohesive and comprehensive way, how global glass progressed from that moment. I think Martha Drexler Lynn does a lot in giving nuance to how the field grew in her book from 2006, but—American Studio Glass—but that’s really only looking at American studio glass, and it ends at 1990. So I think that there is a lot that really hasn’t been written or said in any kind of real comprehensive way about that period from 1990 to now.