Cedric Mitchell

As a World Play Day Playmaker, Cedric Mitchell partnered with the LEGO Group and We Are Amplify to design playful, large-scale public installations that invited communities to build, explore, and imagine together.

His ‘funk is contagious.’ This L.A. glassblower breaks the rules with his stunning vessels

Mitchell, 37, was an emerging hip-hop artist in Tulsa, Okla., when he first considered glassblowing. It was 2012, and he was recording a song in a Tulsa music studio when he noticed his friend’s impressive glass bong.

“He told me about a studio in downtown Tulsa where I could take a glass-blowing class as an elective at my community college,” says Mitchell, who was studying business at Tulsa Community College. “I immediately signed up for the class at 1 a.m.”