
New Orleans-based artist Raine Bedsole received a Masters of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Auburn University. A prizewinner in the Florence Biennale and the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation public sculpture grant, her work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, South Carolina Museum of Art, and the Mobile Museum of Art.
Bedsole's 27-foot steel sculpture, "Justitia," is installed at the U.S. Federal courthouse for the southern district of Alabama. She has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and served as a visiting artist at Kent State University. Bedsole has exhibited her work at The Hilliard Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. Her sculpture, “Nomad," is installed on the Poydras Street Corridor in downtown New Orleans.