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#Blown away host series#

The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG), which houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass, the library of record on glass, and one of the top glassmaking schools in the world, has served as a key consulting partner for the series since its conception. The exhibit Blown Away Season 2 opens on the Museum’s West Bridge the day the show launches.

The Museum will also host an exhibit of work made during Season 2, featuring one object from each of the 10 contestants. Imagine the incredible pieces that might’ve emerged from a competition where they could have used their actual experiences.Arguably the hottest show on Netflix, the glassblowing competition series Blown Away–once again featuring expert glassmakers from The Corning Museum of Glass–returns for a second season on January 22, 2021. It’s just incredibly cool to watch the artists pull and stretch molten glass, as flames flare toward their faces, and the resulting pieces are mesmerizing and ethereal, even with the limits of the holiday. I still love the show - I watched all four episodes in one sitting. In a contest about making skilled art - a process which is often very personal - it felt like the non-Christian contestants were limited by the dominance of Christmas, a holiday they lacked personal connection to.

#Blown away host license#

To be fair, two of the challenges - to make a festive food in glass, and to create a winter wonderland - weren’t totally Christmas-specific, but they were still swathed in and judged by the language and aesthetics of Christmas one host even complained that Yamamoto was using an Easter color palette instead of a Christmas one, in case there was any doubt about creative license to stray from the holiday. Image by netflixīut if you’re blithely asking contestants who don’t even celebrate the holiday to make art guided by their favorite Christmas memories, it’s time to dial down the Christmas focus. How do you evoke a powerful memory of Christmas morning joy when you didn’t grow up with stockings or gifts?Īndi fires up her interpretive Christmas confectionary. Instead, the challenges were often very personal, such as asking contestants to craft a piece evoking the best present they’d ever received - “We want to see something that really encapsulates a memory,” said host Katherine Gray.

Image by netflixīut for the Christmas special, they’ve eliminated the iconic and perfect introduction and replaced it with a glass-themed rhyming voiceover featuring lines such as, “‘Twas a time close to Christmas, and through strands of twinkle lights / Furnaces were cranked up to 2,000 Fahrenheits.” As the camera pans through the hot-shop, we see its industrial floors and furnaces decked out with nutcrackers, stockings and rustic-looking signs declaring “Merry Christmas.”Īdmittedly, Christmas is a big deal in the glass-blowing world, and, had the show focused on making pieces that were intended for commercial appeal or focused on historical techniques, it would still probably feel appropriate. Unlike most of the contestants, she has actual experience with Christmas. Cat Burns’s submission for the first challenge.