Blown Away, however, seems shaping up to be more focused on craft and technique, placing glass-blowing among an array of showy crafts like cooking, bladesmithing ( Forged in Fire), and fashion design ( Project Runway).Ĭandidates “will spend up to 5 weeks in the competition” and be awarded an honorarium of $500 CAD per episode completed, according to the application website. And the show also has an art-world predecessor of sorts in Work of Art: The Next Great Artists, the daring (and controversial) art-world reality television show on Bravo, which started in 2010 and featured up-and-coming artists competing for a cash prize and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Marblemedia positions Blown Away as following in the tradition of popular shows like MasterChef, Iron Chef, Survivor, The Amazing Race, and Forged in Fire.
One artisan is eliminated each week until a winner is announced in the final episode.” The winner “will receive a significant cash prize and be named the Blown Away champion.” In each episode the glass blowers create a beautiful works of art, which are assessed by a panel of expert judges.
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A glass-blowing reality television show tentatively titled Blown Away is set to premiere in Spring 2019, and is seeking highly skilled glassblowers to audition for the first season.Ī production of the Toronto-based global entertainment company Marblemedia, the co-production with Netflix and Blue Ant Media will see “a group of talented and creative artisans from all over North America compete over the course of the series in the highly skilled art of glass blowing. The same theatricality that reliably fills the seats in Corning and Tacoma is being banked on to attract television viewers. Few other art forms are as regularly paraded to the public as their final result is taking shape - unfinished and hotly imperfect. Just ask the demo team at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York State or, on the opposite coast, at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, where the amphitheater is regularly filled with museum visitors who want to witness the process of making. Glassblowing can result in serious art - but it can also be intensely performative, a fact that has helped to fuel its expansion as an art material over the past five decades.
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