Title is Soul Catcher. 19" by 5 1/8" by 4 3/4". Preston Singletary. Born 1963. Known for: Glass vessels and blown glass, Tlingit imagery. A member of the Tlingit Alaskan tribe but living in Seattle, Preston Singletary is known for stylized glass vessels in classical Tlingit forms and imagery, especially the rain-hat, a conical form with etched surface of symbols. Because glass is so permanent, he sees that medium as a way of preserving Tlingit designs, but his pieces are unusual because traditionally tribal members have worked in wood, carving masks, totem poles, vessels and bowls. He is the first Northwest Coast Native American artist to be trained at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and is considered a bridge artist between the modern world and his Tlingit people. His interest in glass began with his friendship with Dante Marioni, who became a well-known glass artist. Marioni helped Singletary get a job as a night watchman at the Glass Eye, now Benjamin Moore, and one of Seattle's first class glass studios. There he saw glass masters that inspired him, and by 1984, he enrolled at Pilchuck, working as an assistant to the legendary Dale Chihuly. By the early 1990s, he began to earn a reputation for quality work and even taught a workshop at the Kosta Boda glass factory in Sweden. Although he doesn't consider himself a surrealist, he is interested in that type of expression and discovered that surrealists were interested in Northwest Coast Native American imagery because it explored the world of the subconscious. Singletary is a student of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and has an avid interest in the relationship between the mind and art, and his Tlinglit hat form symbolizes a connection between his past work and a new direction.