Oral history interview with Preston Singletary
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 memory cards as 8 digital sound files. Duration is 3 hr., 48 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Singletary, Preston, 1963-
label: Interviewer
content: Savig, Mary, 1982-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center
label: Names
content: Pilchuck Glass Center (Stanwood, Wash.)
label: Names
content: Chihuly, Dale, 1941-
label: Names
content: Cribbs, Keke
label: Names
content: Dailey, Dan, 1947-
label: Names
content: David, Joe, 1946-
label: Names
content: Feddersen, Joe, 1958-
label: Names
content: Garcia, Tammy
label: Names
content: Gardiner, Lewis, 1972-
label: Names
content: Hauberg, John H. (John Henry), 1916-
label: Names
content: Jojola, Tony
label: Names
content: Jungen, Brian
label: Names
content: Libenský, Stanislav, 1921-2002
label: Names
content: Luna, James
label: Names
content: Marioni, Dante, 1964-
label: Names
content: Marioni, Paul
label: Names
content: Martinuzzi, Napoleone, 1892-1977
label: Names
content: Moore, Benjamin P.
label: Names
content: Royal, Richard
label: Names
content: Svenson, David, 1953-
label: Names
content: Tagliapietra, Lino
topic: label: Topic
content: Glass artists -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Primitivism in art
label: Topic
content: Tlingit art
label: Topic
content: Tlingit sculpture
label: Topic
content: Native American artists
label: Topic
content: Glass art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Singletary, Preston, 1963-
label: Interviewer
content: Savig, Mary, 1982-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Preston Singletary (1963- ) is a Tlingit glass artist in Seattle, Washington.
function: label: Function
content: Artists' studios
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items (Sound recording: 8 sound files (3 hr., 48 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 55 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2011 March 23-24
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.single11
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Preston Singletary conducted 2011 March 23-24, by Mary Savig, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Singletary's studio, in Seattle, Washington.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Singletary speaks of his family background, especially his Tlingit heritage and his grandmother; his early interest in music; his job at the Glass Eye Studio in Seattle; his formative years as a glass blower in Seattle and at Pilchuck Glass School; his early styles and processes in the modern Venetian tradition; his interest in Tlingit motifs; early mentors including David Svenson, Joe David, and Tony Jojola; collaboration in the studio with other glass artists and other native artists who work with various media; his interest in the modernist primitivist art movement; the character of significant exhibitions and commissions; his collaborative project with David Svenson and native Alaskans on the Pilchuck Founders' Totem; how he met his wife in Sweden; descriptions of his processes and techniques, including lighting techniques; his retrospective at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma and the Smithsonian's Gustave Heye Center in New York; current and future directions of his work; the character of his studio, including the contributions of his assistants; collaborations with other native artists including Tammy Garcia, Joe Feddersen, and Maori jade carver Lewis Gardiner; his interest in Jungian psychology and shamanism; his relationship with critics, collectors, and dealers; and his involvement with native communities. Singletary also recalls Dante Marioni, Paul Marioni, Benjamin Moore, Lino Tagliapietra, Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Stanislav Libensky, Napoleone Martinuzzi, David Svenson, Keke Cribbs, Joe David, Tony Jojola, John Hauberg, Richard Royal, Tammy Garcia, Joe Feddersen, Brian Jungen, and James Luna.