Edward Raub is from the Makah Tribe. His Native art career began in the 1970s when he began carving masks and totem poles for sale to the tourist trade. He graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico, 1972 and earned his Associates Degree from Wenatchee Valley College in 2002.

He then enrolled  as a full time student at the University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau campus to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Art (minor in Northwest Coastal Art). His Native art instructors have included Steve Brown, Steve Hendrickson, David Boxley, and Jim Heaton. He also I took a beginning Tlingit language class taught by Florence Sheakley and incorporates traditional Tlingit names into some prints.

He has shown his work at the Seattle Trade show and the Denver Gift show, The Gathering of Nations Powwow in Santa Fe New Mexico.

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