#preston singletary

[jadeseadragon]

Raven Skyriver and Preston Singletary

Freehand Sculpted Carved Glass collaborations

[top] Matriarch

[bottom] Descendent

Luminosity: Native Glass Art by Preston Singletary and Raven Skyriver

#preston singletary #raven skyriver #indigenous art #indigenous artist #carved glass #art glass #orca #blue whale #whales #whale calves

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Amber Salmon (tail up)

Preston Singletary

#Preston Singletary #Tlingit #Stonington Gallery

[blow-glass-kick-ass]

Preston Singletary Raven Steals the Moon, 2001 Glass Lifeforms, Fuller Craft Museum Photo taken by Emerson Please do look up other examples of Preston Singletary's work, really detailed and beautiful. Example of more here: https://www.travergallery.com/artists/preston-singletary/

#preston singletary #glass artist #glass sculpture #glass art #glass lifeforms #fuller craft museum #native american glass artist #tlingit art #native american heritage month #contemporary art

[pazzesco]

Preston Singletary - Shaman Mask with Chillkat Spirit Helpers

Preston Singletary, Tlingit Crest Hat, 2015

Singletary (Tlingit American) uses his mastery of European glassblowing to create works of art inspired by Northwest Native imagery.

Preston Singletary, Passage to the Sea, 2016

Preston Singletary, The Raven Danced in the Sky, 2016

Preston Singletary, Wakefulness, 2016

Two Ravens

#art #artists #preston singletary #glass #indigenous art

[pandaemoniumpancakes]

Preston Singletary, Dleit Yéil (White Raven) (detail), American Tlingit, 2017, blown, hot-sculpted, and sand-carved glass, steel stand, Museum of Glass. 

#preston singletary #tlingit #indigenous #birds

[reblogs-the-art]

"Glass artist Preston Singletary, NATURE episode"

#preston singletary #Youtube

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Sky Blue Tlingit Glass Basket with Orange Lip Preston Singletary

[moniquill]

"A night on the village"

Basket is woven from red and yellow cedar bark

Lisa Telford, American, born in 1957 is a weaver who creates contemporary garments, shoes and other objects using Northwest Coast style weaving techniques. Her work serves as a commentary on Native identity, stereotypes and fashion.

Born in Ketchikan Alaska, Telford is a Gawa Git’ans Git’anee Haida Weaver and comes from a long line of weavers including her grandmother, mother, aunt, cousins, and daughter. She learned the traditional techniques of Haida basketry from her mentor Delores Churchill, and Haida cedar garments thanks to Holly Churchill. She began weaving in 1992, and for twelve years closely followed the tradition that form must follow function. It wasn’t until a friend asked her to submit a contemporary basket for a show that Lisa experimented beyond the borders of traditional form. This opened a door for her, and in 2004 she was asked to design a contemporary cedar-clothing piece for a show. She used traditional methods and materials, but felt more confident and inspired to experiment – creating a contemporary clothing item from cedar.

With her National Artist Fellowship from Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Lisa collaborated with Preston Singletary (Tlingit), known for his glass art. Preston has developed techniques to mimic the woven texture of basketry, paying homage to the geometric border designs of traditional Northwest Coast baskets. Lisa worked with Preston in his Seattle, Wash. based hot glass studio learning the hands-on skills of working with glass, how to incorporate designs and shapes, and experimenting with forms such as dress figures, working collaboratively as a designer with Preston. They hope to create some new and compelling pieces, joining their expertise from their respective disciplines.

[cielsosinfel]

I had to wait for the county metro office to open yesterday, so I was wandering around Pioneer Square and finally stopped in an art gallery I always meant to check out. It's a gallery that focuses on Native and Indigenous artists, especially those who work with glass. There was a lot of really amazing and lovely works of art there, but the ones that really caught my eye were animal glass statues by Raven Skyriver, a Tlingit artist.

Some of these were made in collaboration with Preston Singletary, another Tlingit glass artist. I'll post his work in a separate post at some point! There's a few other things I'd like to catalogue here for later...

#museum blogging #not really a museum but i dont want to make a separate tag #art #mine poste

[meret118]

#Native Americans #Art

[zooophagous]

Do you have any artists whos style you really like but don't want to try to emulate?

I really like Salish art, and the work of Preston Singletary, but given I'm not native and I have no idea what any of the motifs signify it would be really tacky of me to copy any of it.

[jadeseadragon]

Preston Singletary @prestonsingletaryglass

"Raven and the Box of Daylight"

White Raven, blown and sand carved glass, 19.25" × 9" x 14"

"Before here was here, Raven was only named Yéil. He was a white bird and the world was in darkness…”

This exhibition told the story of Raven and his transformation of the world - bringing light to people via the stars, moon, and sun.

Photo: Russell Johnson

#preston singletary #indigenous artist #indigenous art #art glass #raven

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Grey Whale 

Preston Singletary

#Preston Singletary #Tlingit #Steinbrueck Native Gallery

[cjbolan]

My GIFs of Preston Singletary’s latest exhibit

#my gif #my edit #indigenous people #Native American #Tlingit #glass art #multimedia #native artists #indigenous artist #glass #glass sculpture

[softgrungeprophet]

okay i'm gonna post a bunch of pics i took at the seattle art museum with my phone lol - i pasted the full captions onto/beside the images but i'll put the titles and artists underneath in text too.

Weltempfänger (World Receiver) (2018) - Isa Genzken

I started in the modern art area specifically in the section with post-war german art mostly engaging w/ the war in some way, which is neat, but the presentation left me kind of wondering who had curated it. there was a lot of vague language and i'm not sure that any of the artists were like... jewish...?

there were like three pieces by a sculptor who is apparently one of the top 1000 wealthiest men in germany though. lmao. didn't take a picture of those though.

anyway then was the rest of the modern art.

View from the Other Side of the Mountain (1985) - Roger Brown

i liked this painting. the sense of scale etc. w/ the little tiny people is good.

A Cloud Index (2020) - Spencer Finch

Untitled (2001) - Cameron Martin

Thought this was striking. I like that the background and the tree body are slightly different shades of white.

(background): You Mist, Again (Rattle) (2019) - Natalie Ball

(foreground): IF I RULED THE WORLD (2018) - Jeffrey Gibson

There was a section on modern art by marginalized groups which included some indigenous artists, black artists, and stuff, that was pretty cool.

Architecture of return, escape (the British Museum) (2022) - Nicholas Galanin

(this is a floorplan of the British Museum in the context of indigenous American art pieces that have not been repatriated)

Painting, 1950 - Ad Reinhardt

Untitled (1963) - Mark Rothko

I was a little bit psyched to see this. I didn't check what they had ahead of time so I had no idea they had in person Rothko paintings (two of them! though i only took a pic of this one) I always liked his color paintings since I learned about it in college so it was really neat to see this up close and be able to see the like... texture of the paint and stuff.

(left): Frog Feast Bowl (1997)

(right): Whale Hat (1999)

Both by Preston Singletary.

I thought these were neat. Glasswork has such an interesting feel.

There was this as well—Shaman's Soul Catcher (2000)—by the same glass artist plus underneath it an 1860 Tsimshian bone soul catcher, as a contrast/comparison. Both very pretty in very different ways.

The places I've lived have often had coastal tribal art in various areas but going to the museum and seeing a lot of the artworks in this section was neat because at least half of the stuff on display has abalone shell so it's very sparkly in person. the public carvings and paintings outside usually don't have abalone lol

There was a lot of Native art from all up and down the coast from like, oly to canada, which was really cool to see. I'm not sure how much of it is donated by the tribes or not but I know that's a thing—the MAC in Spokane does that. Plus there's the Burke here which has the Native American Advisory Board. But there's still a chance some of the stuff at the SAM is like... less than ethical.

this is on their website though:

it seems like most of their stuff is probably ethical but there's always a chance some of it isn't, esp since the section on Native art mentions that "grave goods and certain categories of cultural objects" may be repatriated which kind of implies some don't have to be.

a huge chunk of the very large collection comes from one guy:

Headress with frontlet (sakíid) (ca. 1870) - Simeon Sdiihldaa (skil kingaans)

This is very pretty and seems important and valuable.

(background): Interior housepost (Dłam) (ca. 1907) - Arthur Shaughnessy (Hemasilakw)

(foreground): Mask of the Hux̱whukw-Cannibal Bird (Hux̱whukw'iwe') (ca. 1940) - Mungo Martin (Nakapankam)

There were a bunch of these (as well as some other masks) which were pretty cool, and I think the lower beaks are hinged. It would be neat to see them used.

Mask of the Hux̱whukw-Cannibal Bird (Hux̱whukw'iwe') (ca. 1938) - Willie Seaweed (Hilamas)

this one was really big.

more on the house posts and their history. there was another pair (two big faces stacked) on the opposite side of the room I didn't take a pic of. All of the stuff is very pretty but obviously there's a lot of shitty history—like potlatch bans and houses being dismantled—that's just kind of inextricable in both the US and Canada.

adjacent to the large local native art there was a section of Australian Dreaming art as well, with a small short documentary/interview with one of the artists playing nearby.

Kalipinypa Rockhole (2003) - Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra

I only took a picture of this one. It's very striking. The entrance to this area had a hot pink wall with a black and white painting and then inside was all very dark walls. I think it's one of those things that's best in person (lots of art is, really)

nearby was some Japanese art and they had a whole case of netsuke

Seated Monkey Poking at a (Turtle? I think... got cut off lol) (ca. 1770) - Okatomo

It was hard to photograph cause they're so small and in a glass case but they all had such fine details, it was neat to look at them and see all the little tiny lines

There were quite a few, ivory and wood, plus fish sculpture... this one didn't photograph very well though. the fish is really beautiful.

I like these deer-shaped bronze water droppers too. There were a bunch of them of various sizes.

Concretion of Chinese porcelain fragments and coral from a shipwreck, 17th/early 18th century

There were sections on Japanese art, Chinese art, and some Vietnamese porcelain and I thought this was neat. I didn't take a photograph but directly next to this was a modern porcelain sculpture that was definitely intended to be a pairing in overall form and shape and material but still very different.

Ivory, ostrich egg, and silver pieces. I think this section was meant to be a kind of comparison of similar art forms separated by location and temporality—the ways similar forms convergently exist in different locales and time periods. There was an insane-looking Tiffany silver goblet near a much older and simpler silver goblet. Or tankard? it may have been tankards. I didn't take a picture.

next place I went was the ancient art cause that was the nearest bathroom lol—actually it was next to the Italian and Christian European art which I didn't take any photos of. I like medieval and renaissance European art fine but after like. 2 or 3 hours at the museum I was more interested in the Ancient Egyptian and Greek stuff lol.

like this 1st century snake bracelet from Roman Egypt. Phone camera refused to focus though... But like, hey that's wild, that bracelet is probably almost 2000 years old. it's so pretty and i wonder what the red coloration in the lines is. maybe it's a gold alloy? or pigment?

they had a bunch of Roman glasswork as well which is always fun to see. Lots of people think of pristine white marble (it was painted!) when they think of Classical art but glass was such a distinctive thing in those periods—the iridescence and color especially

They had some Greek vases as well, and this Etruscan krater lid with sirens painted on it, which was pretty cool.

also Check out these Sumerian (and one Elamite) frogs!!!!!!

look at them!!!

Babylonian clay foundation peg with cuneiform inscription ca. 2400 BC—think about that. That's like. over 4000 years old. Crazy.

next to the Egyptian art was Islamic art, and I really liked this silver pen and ink holder. It had so many fine details. The entire section was really beautiful. for some reason this also ended up my highest resolution photo? lmao? i don't understand my phone camera at all.

this Turkish floral tile from the 16th century is so pretty

i hit the image limit so i'm gonna add the last four pictures on a reblog

#nadia rambles #arghphoto

[extemporaneousmusings]

26/12/22

Pictured: one the many incredible blown and sculpted glass pieces by Preston Singletary in the temporary exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian

Went downtown today with the fam to go to the Botanic Gardens and the NMAI and had a very nice time. The permanent exhibitions feel a little out dated to me—the museum in my mind is still new but it’s been open for well over a decade at this point—but I was blown away by the narrative, integration, and scale of Singletary’s work. One of the best special exhibitions I’ve seen in a while.

#personal #edit: I just looked up when the museum opened #2004 #😭😂🙃 #almost 2 decades!!! #but I remember it opening so that makes it feel new