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| Portrait of the artist |
Seattle-based Preston Singletary (bass and founder of Khu.éex’) is a visual artist, glass sculptor, and teacher who renders traditional Tlingit forms in the non-traditional medium of glass. He has worked globally with Indigenous art communities and artists.
Recognized internationally as one of the leading glass artists of his generation, Singletary has artworks in dozens of museum collections such as the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Denver Art Museum; The Seattle Art Museum; the Museum of Art & Design, Corning Museum of Glass and the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Mint Museum of Art and Design, Charlotte, NC; the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; and the British Museum, London, UK, among others. In 2004 he had a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. Singletary maintains an active schedule by teaching and lecturing internationally, including an Artist Series lecture at the NAEA 2018 convention. PBS featured his work in the 2017 Craft in America NATURE episode.
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Preston Singletary (American Indian, Tlingit, b. 1963)
Raven Steals the Moon, 2007
Glass, blown and sand carved
Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.66
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Singletary was born in 1963 in San Francisco, California and studied at the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, from 1984 to 1999.
His work is on exhibit through September 2 at Washington’s Museum of Glass:
Khu.éex' is performing at JCCC in the Carlsen Center’s Polsky Theater the evening of Thursday, October 10, see Pre-Conference page for more information.
