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PRESTON SINGLETARY

Ravens. Eagles. Totem poles. Think Northwest Native glass art and his name springs to mind. With his global reputation, glass artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit) stands front and center in Seattle’s celebrated studio glass movement. His pieces range from blown and sand-carved glass tabletop sculptures to massive multisensory installations—and you’ll find them in museums from Seattle to Alaska, Massachusetts to France, Sweden to Scotland.

Inspired by his Tlingit roots, Singletary reinterprets Native American art in glass sculptures carved with the curving arcs of the Northwest coastal Indigenous formline design. Transformation is inherent in the work. When light hits the luminous glass, it can seem alive,

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