Raven and the Box of Daylight

Before here was here, Raven was a white bird, and the world was in darkness… 

So begins the origin story passed down among the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest since time immemorial, from the lips of one person to the ear of another—from generation to generation. In this episode of Sidedoor, Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary shares the story in a new way: leading us on a journey from darkness to light through dozens of luminous glass sculptures.   

Guests

• Miranda Belarde-Lewis, independent curator and assistant professor of Information Science at the University of Washington
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• Preston Singletary, internationally acclaimed Tlingit glass artist
  IG: @prestonsingletaryglass
  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/PrestonSingletaryGlass
• Emil Her Many Horses, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
  IG: @SmithsonianNMAI
  Twitter: @SmithsonianNMAI

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