Corey Silverman

Corey Silverman is a contemporary American glass artist whose work is known for its rich color, fluid form, and the unmistakable individuality of hand-blown glass.

Corey received his formal training at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, one of the country’s long-established centers for glass and dimensional art. After earning his BFA in 1998, he worked with several glass studios around the United States before settling in Colorado, where he continued developing his own artistic voice.

Over the years, Corey has explored many different ways of working with glass, including slumped forms, casting, cold working, solid sculpting, and blowing. Despite that experimentation, he has continually returned to blown glass because of the immediacy of the process—the ability to watch a piece take shape in real time while the glass is still molten and responsive.

Blown glass is both physically demanding and highly intuitive. Molten glass is gathered onto the end of a blowpipe and must be kept constantly moving as it is shaped. Heat, gravity, centrifugal force, air, and hand tools all play a part. The artist has only a limited window in which to work before the glass cools and becomes rigid, so every decision about proportion, color, movement, and surface must happen quickly and deliberately.

That combination of control and spontaneity is especially visible in Corey’s work. His forms often feel organic and relaxed rather than overly formal, with color flowing through the glass in layers, swirls, or softly shifting bands. Even when he works with familiar subjects such as pumpkins and gourds, the pieces retain a sculptural quality that makes them feel like works of art rather than simple decorative objects.

At Arts&Souls, Corey is especially known for his hand-blown pumpkins and gourds, which capture the rounded forms, ribs, stems, and individuality of their natural counterparts while transforming them through luminous glass and expressive color. Each is made individually, so differences in shape, pattern, and color placement are part of the character of the piece rather than imperfections.

Corey also creates vessels, ornaments, and one-of-a-kind sculptural work. His continuing experimentation reflects a broader interest in discovering what glass can do while remaining grounded in the blown form that first captured his attention.

Corey Silverman’s work combines technical skill with an easy sense of movement and color. Whether he is creating a vessel, a sculptural form, or one of his distinctive pumpkins or gourds, each piece reflects the spontaneity and individuality that make hand-blown glass such a compelling art form.