Museum of Glass - Visiting Artist: NCN Collective Day 1 - 06/10/2026

These next couple weeks we are joined by the NCN Collective. NCN Collective is a creative group of glass makers and Indigenous artists that includes Preston Singletary, Martin Janecký, Raven Skyriver, Kelly O’Dell, Charles Parriott, and Joe David. NCN stands for Nuu-chah-nulth, the tribe that Joe David comes from. With their lives woven together, some over four decades, they collaborate in bringing life to contemporary Native sculpture using innovative glass techniques. Concepts and designs of the Tlingit and Nuu-chah-nulth tribes resonate through their unique glass sculptures. During this two-week residency, the artists will work together in the Hot Shop to develop a new body of work that will draw on their artistic voices. The works created during the residency will be the basis for a future joint exhibition that showcases the collaboration, as well as the individual works from the artists to demonstrate the convergence of their ideas. The members of the NCN Collective have traversed through each other’s lives beginning in the late seventies, between the Pacific Northwest and the Czech Republic, through Pilchuck Glass School and various glass teams and studios, collaborating, traveling the world, teaching, demonstrating and developing each of their unique individual approaches.