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JUNE 15, 2022

VOL. 103, NO. 23

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Magnolia shop owner opening second store in Queen Anne

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By Jessica Keller

QA&Mag News editor

After putting in 14-hour days for the last month in preparation for the opening of her second business, local businesswoman Courean Napolitano is excited for this weekend. Saturday marks the grand opening for Napolitano’s new business, Vixen Collection, situated next to Starbucks on Queen Anne Avenue North, in the former Peridot space. Napolitano has owned Vixen in Magnolia for 20 years but has considered expanding for some time, and she has high hopes for her new location. “This is something that I wanted to do prior to the pan-

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Photo by Jessica Keller Courean Napolitano fixes a blouse on display at her new business, Vixen Collection, which will open in Queen Anne with a grand opening Saturday. Napolitano also owns Vixen in Magnolia.

Queen Anne glassblowing artist making a name for himself By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing writer

Photo by Laura Marie Rivera Queen Anne artist Preston Singletary stands in front of La Diab Phish, his glass and steel octopus sculpture, at Climate Pledge Arena. He wears an ivory bear claw necklace commemorating the kakawin-chealth name, which means “transforming killer whales,” bestowed upon him by Nuu-chah-nulth artist and his tribal elder mentor Joe David, who he met at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood.

Queen Anne glass artist Preston Singletary is making a name for himself in the state and around the country this year, but the Native American artist’s 2022 is special in more personal ways, too. Last October’s installation of his glass and steel octopus sculpture, La Diab Phish, at the Seattle Center kicked off what is turning out to be a strong year for Singletary. He was also named as James Renwick Alliance for Craft’s 2021 Master of the Medium for glass. In January of this year, Singletary’s show “Raven and the Box of Daylight” opened at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., and he received the Artist Trust’s 2022 Arts Innovator Award. In February it was announced that he’d been elected to the American Crafts Council’s 2022 College of Fellows. And on June 25, a very personal totem commemo-

After 39 years working as a glass artist, I am now an overnight sensation.” — Preston Singletary, local glass artist

rating his family history will be installed in Sitka, Alaska. As well, this year, he has been featured in “The Seattle Times,” “Smithsonian Magazine” and the cover of “UrbanGlass Art Quarterly.” “After 39 years working as a glass artist, I am now an overnight sensation,” Singletary joked. Singletary is a Native American glass artist who has deep ties to the local arts community and to Alaska’s Tlingit tribe. He was born in San Francisco but grew

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