Tina Oldknow gives a synopsis of studio glass’ history and growth. Oral history interview with Tina Oldknow, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:42.

Tina Oldknow: Oh, it was huge. It really was radical. Once you—move the material out of industry and away from the bottom line, and one of the things to remember is many of the artists who were working with glass in the sixties and seventies barely sold anything. You know, they weren’t doing it to make a killing on the market or, you know, they didn’t have the prices they have today, they didn’t have the success, they built all that. They built the market, they built, you know, kind of all those things. They built their careers, they made incredible technical innovations. I kind of compare it, in a way, to when the Bell monopoly broke up, you know, If they were still in charge we would probably still have phones in our houses and, you know, no cellphones. I mean, all these things happened when that happened. And, similarly with glass, when it came out of the factory—came kind of out of the—you know—moving from brief to, you know, whatever you wanna do with material. It was incredible what happened to it. And—I do like to look at the beginning of studio glass and the context of mid-century design and that way you can really appreciate—as opposed to kind of looking now and looking backwards, if you look at it at that time it was kind of forming, it becomes really radical and very interesting. And you also wonder, why was anyone excited about these blobby things that people were making? So, it’s a really interesting story and a very interesting time, that I think is great now to look back at that and really examine what happened, and why, and the personalities that were involved. Many of whom are still alive.