Oral history interview with Mark Peiser
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 55 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Peiser, Mark, 1938-
label: Interviewer
content: Halem, Henry
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago
label: Names
content: Glass Art Society
label: Names
content: Illinois Institute of Technology. Institute of Design -- Students
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Penland School of Crafts -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Penland School of Crafts -- Students
label: Names
content: Purdue University -- Students
label: Names
content: Bernstein, William, 1945-
label: Names
content: Brown, William J. (William Joseph), 1923-1992
label: Names
content: Dreisbach, Fritz
label: Names
content: Littleton, Harvey K.
topic: label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Glass artists -- North Carolina -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Glass art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Peiser, Mark, 1938-
label: Interviewer
content: Halem, Henry
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mark Peiser (1938- ) is a glass artist from Penland, North Carolina. Henry Halem (1938- ) is a glass artist from Kent, Ohio.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 68 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: 6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (3 hr., 55 min.), digital, wav)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004 February 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.peiser04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.