Ana Flores is a sculptor, environmentalist and community arts advocate who lives in Charlestown, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work which focuses on cultural and ecological narratives is shown internationally and is in private, corporate and institutional collections throughout the United States. Her work addressing the natural and human history of place has been awarded many grants and fellowships including: 1998, selected as Rhode Island Woman Artist to be exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the same year, the Visual Arts Sea Grant for work addressing life in fishing communities, the 2000 millennium grant from the state of RI to build a public sculpture for the town of Westerly, and in 2009 she was awarded a TogetherGreen conservation leadership fellowship for her innovative work combing the arts and ecology.
Flores has been an educator for many years, she is a lecturer of Environmental Art and Sustainable Design at Bryant University, Smithfield, At the Rhode Island School of Design she helped develop the “Art as a source of Healing” course, still a popular and now award winning course. In the past decade she has also been director and founder of numerous arts groups that encourage greater collaboration and engagement between artists and communities. These groups are: The Arts Consortium (1995-2000) an arts instruction and arts advocacy group bringing together artists and the public in Southern Rhode island, Manos (1997-2002) artists working in healthcare facilities to enhance and humanize institutional environments, and Gaia Dialogues (2000- ongoing) which brings artists, environmentalist, and educators, together for collaborative environmental art projects in Rhode Island and the region. For over twenty years she has invited to do artist residencies in many diverse institutions in the US and abroad. From 2006-2009, she was the first artist in residence in a US Fish and Wildlife Center at Kettle Pond Visitor Center in Charlestown, RI. Her work there included the creation of the Green Cafe, the Greenhouse Youth group and Punctuating Place, a sculptural installation along the trails near the center.
Contact Ana at ana@art-farm.net for:
- Exhibitions
- Public and Private Commissions: interiors, and outdoors
- Curatorial and Art Consulting Services related to Environmental Art and Sustainable Design Workshops and Lectures:
- Drawn to Nature, a multi sensory exploration of the natural world combining art and scientific methods to probe the places we live.
- Recycling the Imagination learning to use nature's systems to boost your creativity
- Gaia's Garden - A survey of Flores's ecological projects
- Recycled Cuba - A personal journey through Cuban history and resourcefulness
