At long last, Blown Away is back for a third season — and the hot shop’s hotter than ever. (Really. It’s superhot in there.) This season, 10 new contestants from an array of backgrounds and experiences face 10 creative challenges that push their technical and conceptual skills to the limit and result in deeply personal art pieces.

Whoever wins the final challenge — thereby becoming Best in Glass — will take home the biggest prize package yet. But who will it be? Get to know the hosts and contestants of Blown Away Season 3, which premieres July 22. 

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From left: Nick Uhas and Katherine Gray in Blown Away. 

Nick Uhas & Katherine Gray

Popular science influencer Nick Uhas hosts the series alongside artist and Blown Away judge Katherine Gray. Nick is well-known for his stunt and experiment videos, including his TikTok series, The Science Factory, and his Snapchat series, Snappy Science and Super Satisfying Glass Science. 

You can follow Nick on YouTube and Instagram. 

Katherine hosts the series with Nick and is the resident evaluator of the contestants’ work. She’s a renowned glass artist and an art professor at California State University, San Bernardino. Her works are on display in the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass and the Tacoma Museum of Glass. Exhibitions of her artwork have been featured at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark, Galerie Handwerk in Germany, the Heller Gallery in NYC and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.

Left: Brenna Baker in Blown Away.

Brenna Baker

A studio owner with 20 years of experience, Brenna is the founder of Hollywood Hot Glass, where she is an artist and educator. She says leaving her two babies at home to compete on Blown Away was one of the hardest decisions of her life. She considers herself a nurturing, loving mother and an extreme force in the hot shop who’s eternally motivated and never ever quits. Brenna learned glasswork as a child in Corning, New York, and has worked under the late Pino Signoretto, one of the world’s most well-known glass sculptors. 

You can follow Brenna on Instagram and Twitter. 

Claire Kelly

A glass artist with 25 years of hot shop experience, Claire sees herself as a storyteller who, through her work, wants to bring love and positivity into the world. Inspired by Venetian methods of glass artistry, she loves working with cane and murrini glass. Her work is on display at galleries across the US and Canada. 

You can follow Claire on Instagram.

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Dan Friday

Artist and instructor Dan comes from a family of Indigenous makers like his great-grandfather, who was a totem pole carver. Representing his tribe, the Lummi nation, Dan hopes his artistry will inspire other Indigenous people to become glass makers. Dan says he loves working in glass, particularly because of the caring community that has held open the door for him for the past 25 years. Much of his work, exhibited in shows across the US, touches on Native American cultural themes. 

You can follow Dan on Instagram. 

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Grace Whiteside

Grace hopes their work as a nonbinary artist will inspire others like them to become glass makers. Grace identifies with the fluidity and shapeshifting abilities of glass and believes it informs their work. They are the founder of Get Sticky Glass, a multifunction handblown glasswork business based in Brooklyn, New York. 

You can follow Grace on Instagram. 

Left: John Moran in Blown Away.

John Moran

A sculptor and studio owner from Belgium, John M. is confident he’s going to win Best in Glass and believes his biggest competition is himself. With 23 years of glasswork behind him, he says it’s part of his nature to always come out swinging when the stakes are high. He uses politics, social issues and pop culture to inform his work, which often features American iconography. 

You can follow John on Instagram. 

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Left: John Sharvin in Blown Away.

John Sharvin

A glass studio manager and studio technician at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, John S. doesn’t get to blow glass as often as he’d like, but it’s what he wants and loves to do. Despite having a background as an engineer, John decided to pursue art, much to the chagrin of his parents. His work uses landscape and miniature to comment on the relationship between reality and memories. 

You can follow John on Instagram. 

Madeline “Maddy” Hughes

One of the youngest competitors in the hot shop, Maddy has only six years of experience in glass. She’s a glass assistant from the UK and wants to flex her conceptual muscles throughout the competition. Her work often uses bright glass and complicated textures to add depth and boldness to simple forms. 

You can follow Maddy on Instagram. 

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Minhi England

A glass memorial artist with 14 years of experience in the hot shop, Minhi loves being underestimated — it makes her work that much harder. Having faced a number of hardships over the years, Minhi retreated into her work after the loss of her husband. As part of her artistry, she creates glass pieces to memorialize others’ loved ones. 

You can follow Minhi on Instagram. 

Rob Stern

Glass artist and designer Rob has been blowing glass for 35 years and is coming into this competition as the most experienced of the bunch. He says his passion for glass and living with ADHD has made him the artist he is today. His extensive experience in glass includes years of teaching, exhibitions and commissions, and much of his work explores the connection between humans and nature.

You can follow Rob on Instagram. 

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Trenton Quiocho

With 14 years of experience in the hot shop, Trenton is a glass instructor who views himself as competitive and likes to win no matter what. In joining Blown Away this season, Trenton wants to inspire other Filipino-Americans to work in the field. His glasswork company, Baso Glass, seeks to represent the experiences and culture of diasporic Filipinos. 

You can follow Trenton on Instagram.