MONA LEE RAY

Mona Lee Ray is a streamer, artist, and storyteller whose work has never been particularly interested in staying in one medium.

Her work moves between writing, painting, movement, film, performance, and whatever else a story demands. Raised in a military family and accustomed to moving from place to place, Mona learned early to build worlds wherever she could find them. Art became less of a career choice and more of a first language.

She has also always been a little spooky.

Mona began studying astrology and secretly providing her reiki services in 2014, long before TikTok, or when spirituality became a distinct part of her public work. While teaching and directing her dance company out of a creative hub in Orlando, Florida, Mona was also exhibiting her artwork there and hosting regular Reiki events—her creative and spiritual practices already sharing the same space.

Even then, the lines between her practices were blurry. Members of her dance company, CultureConduct, were each assigned a crystal Mona felt suited them, and she gifted them necklaces she made, with their stone.

In retrospect, Mona has quite literally always been doing some version of what you see her doing today—making art, telling stories, moving bodies, reading energy, and finding strange little ways to weave them all together.

That instinct bleeds naturally into her work: ravens, strange creatures, haunted places, magical characters, dreamscapes, fractured figures, and the occasional thing that probably followed her home. Her stories and visual art often cross into the surreal, supernatural, and unsettling—while still leaving room for beauty, humor, tenderness, and wonder.

Mona is especially drawn to the in-between: beauty and decay, reality and imagination, tenderness and violence, who we were and whatever we are becoming.

Over more than a decade, she has written and published books, created visual art, worked in film and performance, and taught creative storytelling while empowering and providing creative clarity for others.

She still doesn’t know what to put in the little box that asks for her occupation.

Storyteller seems to fit for now.

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