Glass

Tlingit Hat
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Note: Small flaw on the base of the bowl Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often ...

Note: Small flaw on the base of the bowl Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are related to crest symbols. Crests have been passed down through families and have varying meanings depending on the context and association with a nation, clan, or family. The figures depicted in contemporary Northwest Coast Indigenous artwork also have varying meanings but there are some common characteristics from a range of sources, including oral histor...

Tlingit Basket, Blue/Midnight
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Featured work in Preston Singletary's solo exhibition, Tlingit Modernism. This new body of work i...

Featured work in Preston Singletary's solo exhibition, Tlingit Modernism. This new body of work is reflective of his different styles, from representing traditional cultural objects or making contemporary abstractions inspired by Modernism. His work continues the narrative thread of Tlingit style while reflecting on new directions for an ancient culture.

Tlingit Basket, Dark Amber/Cedar
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Featured work in Preston Singletary's solo exhibition, Tlingit Modernism. This new body of work i...

Featured work in Preston Singletary's solo exhibition, Tlingit Modernism. This new body of work is reflective of his different styles, from representing traditional cultural objects or making contemporary abstractions inspired by Modernism. His work continues the narrative thread of Tlingit style while reflecting on new directions for an ancient culture.

Winged Ones Above
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Featured work in Preston Singletary's solo exhibition, Tlingit Modernism. This new body of work i...

Featured work in Preston Singletary's solo exhibition, Tlingit Modernism. This new body of work is reflective of his different styles, from representing traditional cultural objects or making contemporary abstractions inspired by Modernism. His work continues the narrative thread of Tlingit style while reflecting on new directions for an ancient culture. Eagle is an especially prominent figure in artwork on the Northwest Coast. There is a large population of eagles along the coast of the Paci...

Tlingit Basket, Smoke/Midnight
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He refere...

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He references objects like the traditional spruce root baskets from his Tlingit heritage in his glasswork as a way of rethinking and re-contextualizing the item. In doing so he imbues these pieces with the elegance and beauty that the traditional woven forms are so well known for.

Tlingit Basket, Cornflower/Cedar
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He refere...

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He references objects like the traditional spruce root baskets from his Tlingit heritage in his glasswork as a way of rethinking and re-contextualizing the item. In doing so he imbues these pieces with the elegance and beauty that the traditional woven forms are so well known for. 

Tlingit Basket, Amber/Orange
Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He refere...

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He references objects like the traditional spruce root baskets from his Tlingit heritage in his glasswork as a way of rethinking and re-contextualizing the item. In doing so he imbues these pieces with the elegance and beauty that the traditional woven forms are so well known for.

Glass Totem Pole
Don Yeomans (Haida)

This is the prototype for an outdoor lit glass totem pole that Douglas worked on with Don Yeomans...

This is the prototype for an outdoor lit glass totem pole that Douglas worked on with Don Yeomans (Haida). Future commissions of this type could be completed with a different artist.