Clockwork Raven
Traver Gallery
Preston Singletary: Clockwork Raven
Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA.
April 4th - April 25th, 2026
Opening Reception: April 4th, 3-5 pm
In their newest collaboration, Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary and author Garth Stein once again unleash Raven upon the modern world—a place that has grown complicated, distracted, and perhaps a little too clever for its own good.
It begins with a noble idea. Raven builds an elaborate machine to render the ancient healing oil known as “liquid sunshine” from fermenting salmon heads—purely for the good of the People, of course. But a trickster with unlimited oil, unlimited appetite, and questionable judgment soon finds himself drifting into stranger territory: sharing sorrow with a soggy log, meeting a shadow version of himself wandering the streets of Seattle, and enduring a brutal roasting in the Underground by the very descendants he once tried to help.
Along the way Raven encounters feuding forest creatures, a cannibal giant who harvests humans through unread “Terms and Conditions,” and a city so busy scrolling that it barely notices the old trickster shouting truth into a microphone.
Absurd? Certainly. But Raven has always believed that even a broken world—hungry, ridiculous, and dangerously inventive—is still worth saving.














