Flora Ranis is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller from the Everglades whose work explores the molten, hand-made qualities of our built environment. In a celebration of non-dualist ontologies, she explores the intimacy between traditionally natural forms and contemporary state markers. She received her BA from Yale University, where she pursued ethnic studies and learned how to weld. Flora was recently awarded an emerging artist fellowship from the NE Sculpture & Gallery Factory and residencies at The Steel Yard and The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. She is a recipient of the Boynes International Young Artist Award, the Bill May Furniture Scholarship, and the Metal Museum’s Carlsen Family Scholarship. She has exhibited works in solo and group shows across the country, including Stonewall National Museum and Yale University. She currently has two sculptures on view at Meredith Sculpture Park with a forthcoming group exhibition at the Art Complex Museum.