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The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum is a space that honors the memory of Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert, a stalwart of the St. Augustine Arts Community.

The museum is dedicated to exhibiting the best contemporary art by local, national and international artists. Built in honor of Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert and her husband, Dr. Robert Ellert, the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum offers Flagler College students and the Northeast Florida community a venue for fostering knowledge and a deep appreciation of contemporary art. As an educational resource for the Colle

ge, the Museum exhibits regional, national and international artists, and provides opportunities for critical engagement and exposure to a variety of exhibitions and personal interactions with visiting artists. The Museum challenges students, the Flagler community and the public to cultivate individual creativity, critical reflection, historical consciousness and respect for the free exchange of ideas. In this spirit, the Museum also hosts public programs, including artist talks, readings, panel discussions and film series that provide a platform for vital interdisciplinary dialogue.

06/01/2026

Happy June all! On view now through June 25 is “The very ground that shaped us,” an exhibition of artwork by our super talented fine art and graphic design alumni!

We are open this week and hope to see your faces! Please see below for our hours:

Mon-Wed: 10am - 4pm, regular hours
Thurs: 12pm - 4pm, late open!
Fri: 10am - 8pm, 🎉🎉 Art Walk! 🎉🎉

📸: from left Rachel de Cuba, Ruth Coffman, Sara pedigo, and Annie Gardner

05/28/2026

Last semester’s intern Shannon Speakman sent a list of questions to several of our alumni included in the "The very ground that shaped us," on view now. Please enjoy Annie Gardener discussing her creative process below. We have lightly edited some her answers for brevity.

What were some challenges you faced making the work/successes? -- In the case of water bottles in "I Dub Thee" - areas like those make me question the level of finish I want in the painting. If I stop short, am I committed to the painting? If I push an area to a detailed level of finish, is it actually helping the painting as a whole? How can I simplify a form to its foundational elements to better understand what I'm seeing and relate it in paint? What three moves can I make to get to the resolution I want? This is my internal dialog while confronting complex areas in a painting.

What was the most rewarding part of the process to you? -- If you're a painter, you understand finding euphoria in having a good studio day. If I can bring a visual itch to life on my canvas, I'm elated.

What do you want viewers to notice or feel? -- I hope viewers will see the importance of painting from life. I was adamant about looking empirically at these staged events in my studio, while trying to stay true to the visual language of perceptual painting. I hope my curiosity in making the work sparks interest in others, inviting them to look and observe the way I did throughout the process, trying to understand the depth, values, colors, and visual warp I was decoding, questioning initial assumptions along the way

Thanks Annie and Shannon for both the thoughtful questions and responses!

05/15/2026

Our juried alumni exhibition "The very ground that shapes us" is officially open!! Please join us tonight from 4 to 7pm for an opening reception. The exhibition will be on view through June 25.

Thanks to this year's juror, Laura Novoa, for selecting a wonderful group of artworks!

Artists included:

Ruth Coffman, Rachel de Cuba, Bradley Edmonds, Amelia Eldridge, Kobe Elixson, Taylor Fausset, Annie Gardner, Grace Garlesky, Jessica Lubbers, Noah MacKenzie, Laura Mackie, Jenna McDonald, Morgan Mudryk, Sara Pedigo, and Beiyi Wang.

CEAM programming is supported by Flagler College and through grants from the Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council, the St. Johns Cultural Council, Volkswagen of St. Augustine, and VyStar Credit Union. Additional support is provided by the AC Hotel St. Augustine.

05/07/2026

Join us tonight at 5pm to celebrate the amazing student artists whose work is on view for the BFA + BA Senior Portoflio Exhibition! The reception starts at 5pm and we'll be here until 8pm. You can then wander over to Jay's Place in Ringhaver Student Center to check out the Graphic Design Portfolio student work from 6 to 8pm. See you here!

Our final artist spotlight was writtten by Vivian Shugats, our beloved gallery assistant who is graduating on Saturday!! We will miss you Vivian!!!

Tabitha Hanely's collection of drawings is deeply influenced by her appreciation for nature and wildlife that stems from tending to farm animals and household pets as well as immersing herself in nature while hiking. The time spent surrounded by nature and its inhabitants has piqued Hanely’s curiosity as she looks closely to the textures and movements of the environment that are depicted in these drawings. The contrast provided by the vast landscape and accompanying detailed drawings of animals invite the viewer to consider the small moments of existence that are often overlooked within the larger visual narrative of the forest. Each detailed observation provides unique glimpses into the natural world and provides a relationship between the individual animals to the broader environment.

Rylie McCormick’s work explores complex landscapes, as she navigates her own reaction to them, incorporating the chaos she feels into the works by digitally manipulating colors, tearing and reorganizing the printed scenes. McCormick translates the photographs she takes into oil pastel to regain autonomy over the landscapes captured to integrate her own sense of appreciation for the natural beauty that has been obscured by her own thoughts. Her work showcases complexity and vulnerability as the natural scenery is intertwined with her fragmented thoughts, evoking a sense of anxiety while also capturing beauty of the moments as they come together as one complete artwork.

05/04/2026

BFA artist spotlight! Thanks to Vivian Shugats for writing about Shannon’s work.

For Shannon Speakman, the practice of art has always been an outlet to explore her emotions, spirituality, and curiosity through discovering small and purpose-filled moments of light around her. In her body of work “Meditative Windows,” she focuses more on capturing the essence and feeling of the light rather than technical realistic perfection. Basing each work off her own photographs and translating them to canvas with oil paint, Speakman utilizes a significant amount of black and darkness in her work allowing these glimpses of light to shine through. The stark contrasts between these shadowy interiors and light and colored views through each window are intertwined with Speakman’s search for hopefulness and assurance in times clouded by self-doubt, and fear; a search that she finds guidance by her faith in God and her perception of the world and the light it has to offer.

05/01/2026

Join us tonight!!

🕔 : Art Walk, 5 to 8pm
📝 : FLARE launch, 5 to 7pm

We hope to see your faces!

04/29/2026

We are excited to share the work of BFA student Ellie Bowman, whose body of work is entitled "A Sick Sense of Humor."

The scale alone of Ellie Bowman’s artworks excites viewers, and other elements of her work include hand-carved and printed illustrations with beautiful beaded embroidery. She derives influence from Medieval anatomical illustrations relying on visual language to emphasize misunderstandings (or lack of) about women’s health both in the past and modern-day health care. Her work brings to light distorted views about women and mental health; preconceived ideas of female “insanity.” While the female figure is life-size, the organs are intentionally disproportional and exaggerated to reinforce this notion of distorted views about women’s health.

Thanks Shannon for writing this post about Ellie’s work!

04/28/2026

The Spring 2026 BFA & BA Senior Portfolio Exhibition is officially open!

🎗️ Art Walk: this Friday, May 1, 5 to 8pm which also coincides with the FLARE launch!

🗓️ Closing Reception on Thursday, May 7, 5 to 8pm

📸: 1) ceramic sculpture and hanging pieces in foreground by Marysa Gunter, drawings by Tabitha Hanley in background
2) paintings by Shannon Speakman
3) paintings and installation by Shannon Song
4) Mixed media installation by Aiden Balog

04/27/2026

We are thrilled to announce "The Very Ground That Shaped Us," a juried exhibition featuring the works produced by Flagler College’s Department of Visual Arts alumni. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 15 to from 4 to 7pm, and will continue through June 25.

The artwork in this exhibition reflects the diverse artistic practices embodied by the school’s alumni over the past 25 years. The artists include Ruth Coffman, Rachel de Cuba, Bradley Edmonds, Amelia Eldridge, Kobe Elixson, Taylor Fausset, Annie Gardner, Grace Garlesky, Jessica Lubbers, Noah MacKenzie, Laura Mackie, Jenna McDonald, Morgan Mudryk, Sara Pedigo, and Beiyi Wang. Their work spans a broad array of methods and materials, including ceramic sculpture, textiles and fiber arts, printmaking, painting, collage, photography, video, and mixed-media installation.

This year’s juror, Miami-based independent curator Laura Novoa, found connective threads within these works that examine how “domestic spaces, language, inheritance, and landscape operate as psychological structures where repetition, concealment, and the desire for escape coexist.”

CEAM programming is supported by Flagler College and through grants from the Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council, the St. Johns Cultural Council, Volkswagen of St. Augustine, and VyStar Credit Union. Additional support is provided by the AC Hotel St. Augustine.

04/23/2026

BFA student artist spotlight! Our Senior Portfolio Exhibition opens this Monday, April 27!

Cindi Tromblee's work is intended to reflect her own journey of growth and spiritual transformation using numerous different industrial materials and experimental techniques. The process of making the work itself "getting scratched and poked while manipulating copper wire” as well as the constant energy output that leads to physical exhaustion reflects her physical struggles with the materials and the psychological struggles of living life in an effort towards renewal and strength.

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48 Sevilla Street
Saint Augustine, FL
32084

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

(904) 826-8530

Website

http://www.flagler.edu/ceam

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