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No medium captures the dance of color and light more fully than the luminosity of glass. Archaeological evidence suggests glass-making dates at least back to 3,600 B.C. in Mesopotamia, Egypt or Syria. Stone Age societies used naturally occurring obsidian glass for cutting tools and weapons. “Raven Steals the Sun,” Preston Singletary (Tlingit), 2017. (Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico Press)) Venetian glass artists have produced glass from the island of Murano for more than 1,500 years. Glass gestated in Indian Country in the 1970s. And the legendary glass artist Dale Chihuly played mid...

Artists continually break boundaries. The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe is putting together an innovative exhibit scheduled to open on April 18. “Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass,” examines how Native artists reinterpret cultural narratives and designs in new mediums. ................................................................ ” ‘Clearly Indigenous’ is a groundbreaking new exhibition at MIAC that presents Native artists’ innovations in glass,” says MIAC Director Della Warrior (Otoe-Missouria). “By looking at the genesis of glass art thr...