Functional and Decorative Glass Art
We make each piece by hand with you in mind.
Meet the Team
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Freddie Blache
Owner
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Caroline Gratton
Event Coordinator & Operations Manager
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Gage Nobles
Stemware Specialist
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Tres Johns
Sculpting Guru
Our Story
Muffinjaw Designs started as a means for us to share our work while studying glassblowing at the University of South Alabama. We began setting up during our local Art Walk and forming relationships with fellow artists and glass lovers. After we initially threw ourselves out into the world, we discovered that most of our friends and customers had never seen glass being blown in person. At the end of 2016, we purchased a Baby Dragon furnace from Mobile Glassblowing Studios based out of Americus, Georgia. This piece of equipment transformed how we were able to do business and has allowed us to showcase our craft in public.
Once we acquired our Dragon (nicknamed Smaug), and while still in school, we began doing live glassblowing demonstrations along Mobile Bay in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Through these events we are able to engage with people who had never experienced hot glass before and show what it takes to make our work.
In 2018, Muffinjaw owner, Freddie, and his now wife, Caroline, moved to Missouri for Freddie to complete a two-year apprenticeship at the Augusta Glass Studio under glass masters Sam Stang and Kaeko Maehata. After COVID-19 abruptly ended this apprenticeship in 2020, Freddie and Caroline moved back to Mobile where we were able to expand our old home studio and continue making glass pieces locally.
During the Fall of 2023 our team moved into our first publicly accessible space, surpassing our wildest dreams of becoming Mobile, Alabama’s first and only public hot glass studio. After even more growth, we now occupy our current studio in downtown Mobile on St. Anthony Street, where we are able to offer single-day glassblowing experiences, multi-week courses, host parties, and more.
We are incredibly passionate about sharing glass with our community and want to be able to teach others about this wonderful medium and help them create their own works of art. Our craft continues to lead us places we never thought possible. It is one of our greatest joys to see the spark that 2000˚ glass creates in the eyes of all ages and we hope to share these special moments with you!