What is milk glass?
Milk Glass is a mobile glassblowing studio that offers products, workshops, and educational opportunities to the local Charlottesville community and beyond through the ancient art of glassblowing.
As a mobile studio, we are able to transport and set up in a variety of environments: farmer’s markets, wineries, private events, neighborhood block parties, schools, and anywhere else you can imagine.
Where art, hospitality, and entertainment meet is where Milk Glass begins.
ART | We value creativity and believe it to be a catalyst for growth, ideation, discovery, and opportunity.
HOSPITALITY | We care about community and value those in our community feeling seen, welcomed, and that they belong.
ENTERTAINMENT | We believe our most joyful memories are formed through shared experiences.
Who am I?
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Who am I? 〰️
Hello! I’m Ceejay Renner-Thomas. For the last four years, I have been working as a visual art educator in Charlottesville while commuting to Richmond to work part-time in a glassblowing studio.
I graduated from VCUarts in 2018 with a major in Craft & Material Studies, focusing in woodworking and glassblowing. It was there that I developed my passion for craft using historic and ancient techniques as it relates to modernity and pop culture. Most of my personal art delves further into this intersection.
This spring, I successfully completed an entrepreneurship course through a local non-profit that helps small business start-ups lay the framework for their business.
Why Milk Glass?
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Why Milk Glass? 〰️
Milk Glass in name is a reference to the Venetian style of glass crossed with the American pop-culture nostalgia of The American Milkman. Glass as a material has always been both form and function. It is high-end art and the crux of the service industry. As a studio, we exist in the middle ground where glass has always found itself with delicate beauty on one side and the heat and grind of the hot shop on the other. Milk Glass is excited to welcome you into both.
Milk Glass in practicality is a mobile glassblowing studio with the aim of introducing glassblowing to the Charlottesville community for people that may have never interacted with the material, or the ancient form of art making, before. It would be hard to find someone these days who hasn’t held glass in its solid form. Conversely, very few have experienced the intimidating, fiery, yet playful material in its molten form.
