About Milkweed Arts

We’re serious about glass.Not about making it intimidating.

Milkweed Arts is a kiln-formed glass studio: classroom, open studio, and wonderfully well-stocked shop in Phoenix.

Come here to learn something, find the right supplies, or make the idea that’s been following you around.

COME
CURIOUS.
Why Milkweed?

Give people what they need.Then let them surprise themselves.

Monarch butterflies need milkweed—not because it tells them how to be butterflies, but because it gives them what they need to become one.

We liked that idea for an art studio: provide good materials, useful guidance, and a safe place to try. The rest belongs to you.

How we do things

Our goal isn’t perfection.It’s process.

Curiosity is more valuable than certainty, and mistakes are often just new kinds of learning.

Learning is shared.Clear guidance without gatekeeping.

Curiosity is protected.Room to experiment, ask the odd question, and grow.

People feel seen.A warm table with a place for you.

People you’ll meet

Good humans.Very into making things.

Owner & Instructor

Warren Norgaard

Warren began working with glass in 1990 and still loves the moment when a student realizes they can do more than they thought. His winding path through art, teaching, publishing, retail, and a few unexpected careers made Milkweed the people-centered place it is today.

Usually thinking about glass. Occasionally thinking about something else.
Instructor

Bahney

Bahney has spent a lifetime caring for people and making things. Her grandmothers taught her to knit and embroider before her feet could reach a sewing-machine pedal. Then she found fused glass at Milkweed—and that was it. Hooked.

Believes creativity and calm belong at the same table.
Instructor

Teri

Teri has spent much of her professional life helping learning happen—organizing programs, supporting professional communities, and bringing people together around shared interests. Now she brings that experience to Milkweed as an instructor. Teri has a steady way of making people feel welcome, capable, and ready to try—which makes her a natural fit for a studio where curiosity matters more than getting everything perfect the first time.

Believes good learning begins with good people and room to be curious.
Studio Assistant

Jonathan

Jonathan is the newest members of the Milkweed team—and one of the newest to kiln-formed glass. He brings a willingness to learn, a helpful presence, and the fresh perspective of someone still discovering what this wonderfully strange material can do. Outside the studio, Jonathan is into cars, which means he already understands the appeal of good tools, careful work, and figuring out how things fit together.

Glass is new. Cars are not.

Making room for curious people since 2015.

Phoenix Magazine’s Best Place to Create Art
2026 · 2024 · 2023· 2022 · 2021

Come see what we’re making

Take a class. Reserve a studio seat.Or stop in and wander through the glass.