This May, we are thrilled to debut a new collection of work by renowned artist Preston Singletary. With this exhibition, I Dream, Therefore I am Raven, Singletary depicts new takes on traditional Tlingit Raven stories, a project that Singletary has been collaborating on with international best-selling author, Garth Stein.
He says of the show, “I have long wondered when Raven’s next story might be entered into the annals of Tlingit history. Did Raven just stop doing things, or is he perhaps some kind of spirit around us who is trying to affect changes, knowingly or unknowingly? I have partnered with my friend Garth Stein, a novelist with Tlingit ancestry. I asked him to create a narrative around this concept. It resulted in what I have come to think of as a new direction in my own work: imagining the stories of what Raven is up to these days. In my interpretation of what Raven is up to now, I want to believe that he is battling climate change, protecting the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, or helping discover the Residential School grave sites.”