Tag Archives: Preston Singletary
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A Clockwork Raven: Preston Singletary
As we enter the exhibition of Preston Singletary’s “A Clockwork Raven,” we first see this extraordinary construction with Raven lying under a contraption that is dripping oil rendered from salmon heads, a traditional healing oil for the Tlingit. We stand shocked as we look down on Raven and wonder what […]
This entry was posted on April 26, 2026 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Native American art, Uncategorized. -
Raven Returns
Raven is Back! Raven, the creator in the Tlingit mythology, rescued humans from darkness by stealing the sun. “He was a white bird and the world was in Darkness. Raven decides he will try and do something about the darkness, for himself and for the world. As he follows the Nass River, he […]
This entry was posted on June 8, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
“Lifting Up From the River”
Preston Singletary honors his father Shaa-Héen-Kaa, who died in November at the age of 80, in “Lifting Up from the River” (at the Traver Gallery until the end of April). Death has been affecting all of us this year. We are experiencing so much loss in our lives, whether from COVID or other […]
This entry was posted on April 28, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology. -
Preston Singletary and Raven Skyriver
Preston Singletary (Tlingit, American) had a dazzling exhibition in Tacoma that recently closed called “Raven and the Box of Daylight.” The sculptures told the famous Raven story step by step with some full on installations, and special effects added in. We were mesmerized by the flow of the story and Preston’s presentation. “Before here was […]
This entry was posted on October 4, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
“Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977 – 2015”
“Not Vanishing: Contemporary Native American Art, 1977 – 2015” features 78 works of art by 49 artists from 23 tribes in the Northwest. In all media, and combining aesthetics, politics, history and urgent contemporary issues, this show at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, is not to be missed. It closes on January 3.
This entry was posted on November 24, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, indians, Indigenous activism, Indigenous Art, Photography, teddy bears, Uncategorized. -
A valuable conversation of past and present: Three Special Exhibitions of Indigenous Art in Seattle
Three exhibitions offer a conversation about native creativity, its history, its extraordinary media, and the contemporary artists in the Northwest who continue to honor and alter it.
This entry was posted on March 20, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture and Human rights, indians, Indigenous Art, Lillian Pitt.
