Susie Silbert discusses the need to connect glass with other movements and fields of cultural production. Oral history interview with Susie Silbert by Catherine Whalen, February 25, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:48.

Susie Silbert: I think that there is an opportunity to get at more than just establishing the particular facts and characters of the history of glass itself, but rather to write something that is more synthetic with other fields of cultural production, with—by connecting glass with all kinds of other movements that were happening at the same time; I think we’d get to a much better place. I think we’re finally at, in contemporary glass, at a place where the field is established enough to be able to reach out in that way, and I hope that when there are books like that, the field of glass will extend, it will be an opening up, it will invite other people in, and it will itself go out and exist in other kinds of fields.