Tina Yelle describes raising money for NYEGW. Oral history interview with Tina Yelle by Catherine Whalen, conducted via telephone, April 30, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:00.

Tina Yelle: Let me tell you how I got involved. I’m a painter—I was trying to be a painter, not a glass artist, and I had been living in Europe, and I was one of those people that didn’t really have a career path, per se. I wanted to paint. I came back from Europe to New York, and I was working a dead-end temp job. And Richard—of course he knew that, we were very close. He went down to the Workshop one day and found the place in disarray, I guess; you can get his version. He fired the director on the spot, and then in his typical bossy brotherly way, he phoned me up and told me to get down there the next day because I was just working a stupid temp job, and he just needed a warm body in there. So I thought that was fantastic. Of course, I’m young, open-minded, didn’t care, walked down there and it’s kind of like love at first sight. Not so much the glass itself, but the artist attitude.