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Preston Singletary

Preston Singletary

I Dream, Therefore I Am Raven

May 2 - Jun 1 | Opening Reception: Thursday, May 2, 5 - 8 PM

This May, we are thrilled to debut a new collection of work by renowned artist Preston Singletary. With this exhibition, I Dream, Therefore I am Raven, Singletary depicts new takes on traditional Tlingit Raven stories, a project that Singletary has been collaborating on with international best-selling author, Garth Stein. He says of the show, “I have long wondered when Raven’s next story might be entered into the annals of Tlingit history. Did Raven just stop doing things, or is he perhaps some kind of spirit around us who is trying to affect changes, knowingly or unknowingly? I have partnered with my friend Garth Stein, a novelist with Tlingit ancestry. I asked him to create a narrative around this concept. It resulted in what I have come to think of as a new direction in my own work: imagining the stories of what Raven is up to these days. In my interpretation of what Raven is up to now, I want to believe that he is battling climate change, protecting the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, or helping discover the Residential School grave sites.”

Click here to explore Preston’s catalog with stories by Garth Stein

Click here to visit Preston’s full artist page

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WOLF SITTING ON A ROCK | 34447
WOLF SITTING ON A ROCK | 34447, 2024
blown and sand carved glass
16.75"h x 10"w x 3"d
$19,000
SON OF LAND OTTER | 34449
SON OF LAND OTTER | 34449, 2024
blown and sand carved glass
25.25"h x 11"w x 4"d
$19,000
POWER OF THE INVISIBLE  | 34450
POWER OF THE INVISIBLE | 34450, 2024
blown and sand carved glass
25.75"h x 6.5"w x 4"d
$18,000
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  • WOLF SITTING ON A ROCK | 34447, 2024
    blown and sand carved glass
    16.75"h x 10"w x 3"d
    $19,000
  • SON OF LAND OTTER | 34449, 2024
    blown and sand carved glass
    25.25"h x 11"w x 4"d
    $19,000
  • POWER OF THE INVISIBLE | 34450, 2024
    blown and sand carved glass
    25.75"h x 6.5"w x 4"d
    $18,000
  • About
    Preston Singletary

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Preston Singletary has become synonymous with the relationship between European glass blowing traditions and Northwest Native art. His artwork features themes of transformation, animal spirits, and shamanism through elegant, blown glass forms and mystical sand carved Tlingit designs.

Singletary learned the art of glass blowing by working with artists in the Seattle area including Benjamin Moore and Dante Marioni. As a student and assistant, he initially focused on mastering the techniques of the European tradition. His work took him to Kosta Boda (Sweden) where he studied Scandinavian design and met his future wife. Throughout his 30+ years of glass blowing experience, Preston Singletary has also had opportunities to learn the secrets of the Venetian glass masters by working with Italian legends Lino Tagliapietra, Cecco Ongaro, and Pino Signoretto. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Puget Sound. Now recognized internationally, Singletary’s artworks are included in museum collections such as The British Museum (London, UK), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), The Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY), the Mint Museum of Art and Design (Charlotte, NC), the Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ), and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC).

Singletary maintains an active schedule by teaching, lecturing, and exhibiting internationally. In 2009, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, launched a major mid-career survey of his work, entitled “Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows”. In 2018, he launched a new traveling exhibition with the Museum of Glass, titled “Raven and the Box of Daylight“, which pushes the boundaries of glass as a medium for storytelling. Preston Singletary continues to assert himself as a keeper and teller of stories and as a contemporary master of his craft.

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