TACOMA, WA.- Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows, a mid-career survey of the artist’s work organized by the Museum of Glass, opened at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City over the weekend. It will remain on view through September 5, 2011 before it will travel to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmussen Center early in 2012. Preston Singletary is recognized internationally for his work, which combines two of the Pacific Northwest ’s most prominent artistic influences—traditional Native American designs and the medium of glass. For nearly two decades, he has melded the symbols, patterns and legends of his Tlingit heritage with the dynamism of the Studio Glass movement, creating a distinctive and powerful body of work. Singletary uses a complex combination of techniqu