ARTS Southeast is pleased to host ON::View Artist-in-Residence
Flora Ranis
April 9th - may 1st, 2026
Special Events
Meet & Greet: Wednesday, April 15th, 6 - 8PM at Garden Square
Artist Talk: Wednesday, April 22nd, at 6PM at ARTS Southeast
Project Finale: Friday, May 1st, 5 - 9PM in conjunction with Starland First Fridays
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
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.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
During her residency, Flora Ranis will reimagine ordinary aspects of Savannah’s built environment as integral elements of a 21st century origin story, figuratively and literally rooting them in the local flora and fauna. Using a combination of materials and mediums–including sculpture, soil, paintings, poetry, and chain link fences–her work will abstract everyday cultural signals, such as mass-produced objects, maps, road signs, and more, as a way for viewers to consider and question the visual language around them as it's been stripped down. The artist will utilize the studio windows to showcase her works as they physically grow and shift over time, encouraging the Savannah community to engage with and respond to the work in a tangible way and prompting the public to reimagine the systems and structures that shape our bodies and lives. By highlighting the folkloric nature of our built environment, Flora hopes to honor culture itself as gooey and amorphous, as molded every day by human hands and minds.
Follow along on Instagram: @onviewresidency and @flora_ranis
