NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Ana Flores is an award-winning sculptor, ecological designer, and educator. She has been promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and groundbreaking collaborations between the arts and sciences for over two decades. She has worked with communities to design award-winning outdoor installations, parks, and programming that engage people with the history of their local landscapes and the landscapes they carry within- as cultural heritage. Flores’s interest in deep ecology and the complex history of place is rooted in her own experiences of displacement; she was born in Cuba and arrived with her family in the United States as refugees. She now lives and has her studio in Charlestown, Rhode Island, surrounded by forest that is ancient Narragansett land.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Ana Flores is a sculptor and ecological designer. Her work, focusing on cultural and ecological narratives, is shown internationally and is in private, corporate and institutional collections throughout the United States and abroad. For two decades she has been promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and groundbreaking collaborations among the arts, sciences and humanities, working with communities to design award-winning outdoor installations, parks, and programming. “Poetry of the Wild,” one project, has continued to travel throughout the United States, inspiring meaningful engagement with the land, combining the use of poetry, art, and community collaboration. Another endeavor is her artistic investigation of the history of Cuba, her homeland. In 2017 she will be artist in residence at Brown University, doing research and a sculptural installation on how slavery connected Rhode Island and Cuba. Flores, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, has taught Ecological Art and Design at Bryant University since 2006.
Source: NetWorks 2015-2016 Catalogue
Wood and pigment, 120 x 120 in.
Credits:
Video: Richard Goulis
Music: Ruben Gonzales
Additional Video: 2 Much Time Design
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.
Additional Resources:
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
Pingback: Cuban-born Sculptor and painter Ana Flores in "Forest Dreaming." » CANY Blog