Jurors’ Statement (first Toledo Glass National)
The first national competitive exhibition of individually made glass, which we were invited to select, has been an encouraging experience.
Technical competence was not the overriding criterion in making the selections. Our main purpose was to choose those pieces in which the craftsmen know how to capitalize on expressive qualities uniquely possessed by glass.
Forty-three out of forty-eight entrants had work accepted; clearly the level of basic competence in this rather young variation on an ancient craft is exceptional. We look forward to the development of these and other individual craftsmen working outside of the industrial complexes. […]
In our opinion this exhibition demonstrates that glass has now joined other more familiar materials as a legitimate medium for adventurous designer-craftsmen.
Edgar Kaufman, Jr.
Paul N. Perrot
Rudolf M. Riefstahl