A retrospective celebrating this Tlingit artist's unique alchemy of Northwest Coast formline design and glass-blowing technique.

In a meeting of European glass-blowing tradition and Northwest Coast design, Preston Singletary's art depicts cultural and historical images from his Tlingit ancestry in richly detailed, beautifully hued glass. By infusing traditional formline design with fresh energy through the use of modern materials, his work pays homage to his forebears.

Recognized internationally, Singletary's works are held in such museum collections and galleries as the National Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), the Seattle Art Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY), the Spirit Wrestler Gallery (Vancouver, B.C.) and the Handelsbanken (Stockholm, Sweden). This beautifully illustrated retrospective of an innovative artist at midcareer accompanies a touring exhibition. It includes a DVD and features essays by Melissa Post, curator at the Museum of Glass; Steven Brown, former curator of Native American art at the Seattle Art Museum, and Walter Porter, a Tlingit storyteller.

Melissa G. Post is curator at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA and publishes, lectures and judges exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has served as assistant director of the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (Hendersonville, NC) and held curatorial positions at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design (Charlotte, NC) and the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY).

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Steven C. Brown is former associate curator of Native American art at the Seattle Art Museum. He is the author of Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century and Sun Dogs and Eagle Down: The Indian Paintings of Bill Holm.

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