Exhibits

2025

• Interdependence - A Fall & Winter Nature Art Exhibit, RLA Learning and Conference Center (November 2024-February 2025)

• Art for Animals, North Hills Art Center (June -July)

• A Rabbi in Bloom, Rodef Shalom Congregation (June 16- August 18)

2024

• All Creatures Great and Small, Carlow University (April-May)

• The Grand Menagerie, Rodef Shalom Congregation (June-August)

• Bugs, Birds, and Botanicals, Pittsburgh Botanic Garden (July-October)

2023

• The Healing Garden, Rodef Shalom Congregation (March27-May 7)

• Botanical Holiday Drawings, Rodef Shalon Congregation (August-October)

Annual Exhibit  (2010 - 2023)                                                                                                        

• Phipps Allegheny Highlands Flora Project

  • Phipps Garden Center, Shadyside, PA. (March-May)

  • Phipps Conservatory Welcome Center

  • CSL Atrium at Phipps Conservatory

• Western PA Garden & Landscape Symposium and Garden Marketplace, Shadyside Academy, Fox Chapel, PA. (April)

2022

• Botanical Resurgence

  • Beachwood Arts Council in Beachwood, OH (June)

  • Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling WV (July-August)

    • https://oionline.com/botanical-resurgence-art-exhibit-stifel-fine-arts-center-wheeling/

2018 - 2019

• Shaler North Hills Library (May-June 2018)

• Summit Art Gallery, Weirton WV (August-October 2018)

  • https://www.weirtondailytimes.com/news/local-news/2018/07/new-artists-welcomed-at-summit-gallery/

• Peace of Time Wellness, Bloomfield, PA (December 2018)

2016

• Celebrating Native Trees

  • Re:New Festival, downtown Pittsburgh (September-October)

  • Repair the World in East Liberty (October-December)

2014

• National Transit Art Studios, Oil City, PA. (May, October)

• Phipps' Native Plant and Sustainability Conference (November)

• Christ Episcopal Church, McCandless, PA. (2012-2014, October)

2011-2013

• Reflections: Homage to Dunkard Creek, a travelling exhibit between West Virginia and Pennsylvania

• Cranberry Public Library (January-February), Cranberry Township, PA

Special Projects

• Drawing featured on HBO documentary Saving My Tomorrow (2014)

• Painted pumpkins for Kaelin Farm Market, Pumpkin Paradise, Wexford, PA ( 2010-2022, September-October)

• VisitPittsburgh’s 90 Painted Chairs Program (2019)

• Created mural for waiting room for Peace of Time Wellness in Bloomfield (2021)

Contact/Bio

Raana Flemm (Chughtai) engages in the study of botanical and wildlife illustration. Her focus is primarily of native plants and animals of Western Pennsylvania. Emphasizing the details and personality of a subject, her work has been applied to both scientific and recreational projects. Raana is a member of the 3 Rivers Botanical and Nature Artists and the Colored Pencil Society of America. She studied Botanical Art and Illustration at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

E-mail address: rlc200@msn.com