![]() “And if you’re scared to do something, you just pretend you already know how to do it.”īurns eventually headed to New York state, home to the renowned Corning Museum of Glass, and “moved into the moldiest, grossest camper, along some train tracks.” She taught classes for tourists, helping them create blown glass ornaments, and took a job as a technician, learning to break down and rebuild “glory holes” – the 1,000-degree furnaces used to heat glass.īefore long, she was handed an incredible opportunity. “You learn these complicated skills that other artists are really adept at, because you’re the one there helping them,” she says. She became a freelance assistant to glass artists in Philadelphia, bouncing from studio to studio, making friends and learning, fast. It wasn’t the first time Burns’ personality – her sarcastic wit and easy laugh – would help her career along. He had a piece of scientific apparatus in his pocket and I said, ‘Is that a scientific apparatus in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?’ He was like, ‘You’re hired.’” “But I knew I needed to find a way to learn outside the classroom,” she says. She earned 2 associate degrees, one in Glass Fine Art and one in Glass Craft and Design. That relationship went nowhere, but Burns did ultimately fall in love with the act of glassblowing. But I had a crush on someone in the class, so I stuck with it, and tried to make my crush think I was cool.” “I did that at first, and honestly despised it. “Salem’s known for scientific glassblowing – it’s very precise work,” Burns says. ![]() But before all of that, she was learning to make scientific beakers at Salem Community College in Carneys Point. In the last few years, the 30-year-old has become one of the most recognizable glass artists in America, thanks to both her undeniable skill and her fan-favorite role on the second season of Netflix’s smash reality competition show “Blown Away.”īurns has traveled the world demonstrating and teaching glass-blowing, gone viral on TikTok, and earned a residency at the world’s foremost glass museum. It’ll be a way to relax and figure out what you want to do.’ Well, it turned out to be what I wanted to do.” Finally, she was like, ‘there’s a glassblowing place in Salem. After her high school graduation, the Swedesboro native says she had no idea what she wanted to do, and was “butting heads with my mom. ![]() Cat Burns’ mom just wanted her to get out of the house. ![]()
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