Warren
Norgaard

I’ve spent much of my life learning how materials speak—glass through light, photographs through memory, and poetry through the things we struggle to say aloud. My work moves between these forms, but the questions underneath remain much the same: How do we become ourselves? What do we hold onto? And what becomes possible when we feel truly seen?

I’m a native of Phoenix, Arizona, and have worked across poetry, photography, collage, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and digital media. Glass remains my truest creative home. For more than twenty years I have worked in stained, blown, and fused glass, with work shown and sold throughout the United States, including at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art and the Glass Craft and Bead Expo.

In 2015, I opened Milkweed Arts in Phoenix. Teaching has become part of my creative practice: a chance to share what I know, protect curiosity, and help people discover that mistakes are often just new kinds of learning.

My poetry has appeared in Sauce*Box, Mind Caviar, and Papier Machete. In 2007, John Gilgun and I published There Is a Tomorrow. My 2025 collection, The Space Between Glances, is a memoir in fragments—poems about memory, identity, belonging, and becoming.

I don’t believe the goal is perfection. The goal is to stay awake to the process, remain curious, and make room for the unexpected. That is where the most honest work usually begins.