Yaffa Sikorsky-Todd discusses being the second woman to teach glass at Penland. Oral history interview with Yaffa Sikorsky-Todd by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, October 5, 2016, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:31.

Yaffa Todd: In the summer of ‘78, I taught glass at Penland School, and I was the second woman to teach glass, and that was a real honor. And in those days, it was really hard for women to blow glass. It was very unusual because most of it was real macho, you know, it was a macho thing to be doing. Guys with big beards drinking beer—and it was like women weren’t supposed to do it or couldn’t do it. And I was really—it made me mad, so I was—my focus was to blow glass.