

Coming in as a judge, I didn’t have the benefit of all that backstory,” Silbert said. “The show is about glass, but it’s also about the people who made it. Silbert, who spent a week in Hamilton, Ontario during filming last fall, focused on work rather than personalities. Viewers meet the “Blown Away” contestants throughout the season.

Silbert is used to making tough decisions she selects the winner of CMoG’s prestigious Rakow Commission, awarded annually to an artist not currently represented in the museum’s collection. There were only two contestants left for Episode 10, when Silbert judged her work to help determine who would become “Best in Glass” and win the prize package. Contestants “face 10 creative challenges that push their technical and conceptual skills to the limit and result in deeply personal pieces of art,” according to Netflix’s description. “Blown Away” begins with 10 contestants from around the world competing in Season 3. It’s so hard to be an artist, and especially hard to be a glass artist.” I think winning at art just means being able to do your job every day. “One of the things that was the biggest challenge for me going on the show is that I really don’t think you can win at art. “I was very happy with the result and happy that they kept my line that you don’t win in art,” Silbert said. Silbert serves as a guest judge on Episode 10, the season finale that determined the winner of Season 3, although “winner” is a relative term.
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Silbert features prominently in Season 3 of “Blown Away,” a Netflix series released in late July. She is a key component of her work as a curator of contemporary and post-war glass at the Corning Museum of Glass.īut making those decisions in front of the Netflix cameras for a popular reality series broadcast around the world? That was a completely new experience. Silbert is used to making tough decisions.
