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Raven uses the Tribal name of her Comanche Grandfather for her home studio/business, "GoldenHawk Gallery". She is enrolled in the Cherokee Tribe.

Working in any medium - acrylic, pastel, watercolor, oil, or ink - Raven produces a vast diversity of subjects. These subjects range from her preferred Indian and western, to Grecian scenes, to Victorian subjects, horses, wildlife, and a specialty - portraits.

Winner of more than 50 awards including seven best of show, her exhibits are in galleries and private collections throughout the Northwest and Southwest states. There is a growing list of private collectors gathering a series of limited edition prints, which have been recently released.

Jean Carol Davis used Raven's illustraions in the book See South Central Washington. In the works are illustrations for a book by Mato Cardinal, The Living Legend Storyteller in Colorado.

Raven was one of a limited number of artists invited to photograph during the filming of "Dances with Wolves" in the Fall of 1989. Lasting friendships were made among the artists, actors, Lakota Indians, adn the working cowhands used in the film on the multi-thousand-acre ranch in South Dakota. Since then they gather for a yearly "Family" Reunion.

Each year's gathering in South Dakota brings home another thousand photographs for authentic painting reference. It becomes an adventure of "going back in time" when the landscape by the Cheyenne River becomes a scene out of the 1850s with tipis, wagons, women and children in buckskins and pioneer attire. A Lakota Chief, a Medicine Man, genuine rough-hewn cowboys, along with authentically dressed trappers, soldiers in both blues and greys. Cattle, horses, buffalo, and wolves are available for photographic reference as well as sketching and painting at location. Especially enjoyed by all is the camaraderie.

Always on the lookout for props, a tipi was brought home from Wind River, Wyoming, and is now set up in her back lot. Working out a trade made it possible to acquire an old freighter wagon, a buffalo skull, and an osage war bow with bone-tipped arrows. Her 1998 trip added an authenitc flute and beaded fringed flute bag, acquired in trade by painting a buffalo and eagle on a tipi.

Raven is on the advisory committee of LICWAC, a subdivision of the Washington State Department of Social Services for the overseeing of Indian Child Welfare. She is also a member of the Thunderhouse Intertribal Club in the Tri-Cities. She was nominated in 1992 for the Governor's Ethnic Heritage Award. She was chosen Artist of the Year in 1996 for RADCON.

She is currently an adjunct instructor through Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington where she maintains a home studio and, as time allows, teaches painting workshops.

In February 2002 she was accepted as a member in the prestigious I.A.C.A. (Indian Arts and Crafts Association).