Object Details
sova.aaa.peiser04
- General
- Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 55 min.
- Interviewee
- Peiser, Mark, 1938-
- Interviewer
- Halem, Henry
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Names
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Glass Art Society
- Illinois Institute of Technology. Institute of Design -- Students
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Penland School of Crafts -- Faculty
- Penland School of Crafts -- Students
- Purdue University -- Students
- Bernstein, William, 1945-
- Brown, William J. (William Joseph), 1923-1992
- Dreisbach, Fritz
- Littleton, Harvey K.
- Topic
- Decorative arts
- Glass artists -- North Carolina -- Interviews
- Glass art
- Provenance
- This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
- Interviewee
- Peiser, Mark, 1938-
- Interviewer
- Halem, Henry
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Sponsor
- Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
- Biographical / Historical
- Mark Peiser (1938- ) is a glass artist from Penland, North Carolina. Henry Halem (1938- ) is a glass artist from Kent, Ohio.
- Extent
- 68 Pages (Transcript)
- 6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (3 hr., 55 min.), digital, wav)
- Date
- 2004 February 26
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.peiser04
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Interviews
- Sound recordings
- Genre/Form
- Interviews
- Sound recordings
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Mark Peiser conducted 2004 February 26, by Henry Halem, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Penland, North Carolina.
- Peiser speaks of growing up in Chicago; his relationship with his parents; developing an early interest in music and engineering; attending Perdue University and transferring to the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology; working for a design firm in Chicago; becoming interested in glass after seeing an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago; attending a workshop at Penland School of Crafts; becoming Penland's first Artist-in-Residence in glass and developing a technique on his own; working with Fritz Dreisbach to set up the first Glass Art Society conference; making improvements to the Penland glass studio; teaching at Penland; making a living as an artist; making opal glass for the first time; choosing certain imagery and color in his work; experimenting with technique including glass casting; making his Innerspace series; his relationship with collectors; finding challenges with his latest body of work; and the influence of Zen on his art. Peiser also recalls Harvey Littleton, Bill Brown, Billy Bernstein, and others.
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
AAA.peiser04
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596375092415-1596375092417-0

