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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.

08/31/2026

Nicole Antebi's Rebel Waters / Aguas Rebeldes is officially open!

We hope to see you at the opening reception this Friday, Sept 4 from 5 to 8pm. Nicole will do a walkthrough of the exhibition at 6pm!

08/11/2026

We are thrilled to announce “Rebel Waters / Aguas Rebelde” - an exhibition of sculpture and time-based work by Nicole Antebi (Associate Professor of Illustration and Animation, University of Arizona). Antebi grew up in the El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico regions, and her work focuses on the history of these landscapes, specifically the once-meandering Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and the Santa Cruz River. She employs sculpture and animation to tell the story of the region and the environmental, social, political, and economic pressures that have afflicted this landscape for over a century. 👇🏼👇🏼 Keep strolling for the exhibition details and related programming!

🗓️ Exhibition Dates: Aug 31 - Nov 7, 2026

🎉 Opening Reception + Exhibition Walkthrough with Artist: Friday, Sep 4, 5 to 8pm (Walkthrough @ 6pm)

🗨️ Conversation with Artist + Dr. Jennifer Saracino (Assistant Prof. of Art History, University of Arizona): Monday, September 28, 6pm @ Virginia Room (50 Sevilla Street)

🖌️ Open for Art Walk on Oct 2 + Nov 6 🖌️

We hope to see you soon!

We are grateful to the St. Johns County Cultural Council for their generous support of this exhibition. CEAM programming is provided 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, Volkswagen of St. Augustine, and VyStar Credit Union. Additional support is provided by AC Hotel St. Augustine.

06/18/2026

Our social media has been a little quiet over the last couple of weeks, but thanks to everyone who came out for Art Walk on June 5 - we had a great turnout! There is only one week left to see the current exhibition, so if you haven’t stopped by, now is your chance! Please enjoy today’s highlight of Taylor Fausset’s drawings included in the exhibition, which are accompanied by poems written by his wife Pamela.

Fausset finds inspiration in the landscape around him, such as in the drawing “Magnolia Street.” According to the artist, the canopy of oak trees and being close to nature brings him a sense of peace and, “a kind of escape without having to actually escape to another place to go for a hike.”

The artist started out at a young age working in a darkroom making analog photography. This is evident in his charcoal drawings, which begin with references to black and white photographs. Fausset “concentrates on the light, texture, depth, and detail” to translate the photograph to drawing, imbuing the drawing with feeling and emotion. Ultimately, he allows the work to “become what it wants… something all its own.”

As Fausset worked on “Magnolia Avenue” and “The Beginning,” he concentrated on grounding and rooting. “I was trying to find my way, a new way. I was focusing on the analogy of "The Path" or "The Journey". Not worrying about the destination but instead focusing on each step…with patience and reverence. I hope that the viewer can look at these and be reminded to get lost for a moment every now and then whether it's in a work of art, in the woods, by the ocean or inside your mind. People are too often afraid of getting lost and forget that there is adventure in what you don't know. The drawing is about the journey and they are a journey. Destination unknown.”

06/03/2026

We have long been a fan of Amelia Eldridge’s work! Please enjoy the following where the artist shares the process for and concepts around her work “13 Dreams," on view now at CEAM!

Dreams and their significance are something that connect people across the world. I am inspired by experiences and stories that exist in multiple cultures across time and space. Their specifics, interpretations, and importance may vary, but their significance doesn't. For this piece, I was excited by the possibility of reading what other people dream about, and the magical properties of mugwort and roses.

I started growing mugwort in my garden because I was inspired by its' magical properties to enhance communication in the dream realm. I also had some potted roses, as roses are significant to the Goddess Epona. Epona is considered a protector of journey and travel, which extend to dreams and the afterlife. I thought it sounded like an interesting idea to dry some mugwort and roses and send them inside a little dream pillow, constructed using naturally dyed fabric. In exchange for a dream pillow, people would send me one dream they had while using it. I would collect them, unnamed, and figure out some way to safely store them and never share them with another. I took dreamers' trust seriously, and I am thankful for their trust in me.

I think my biggest challenge was deciding upon the idea of incorporating the dreams into a scroll. My initial idea, and what I told participants, would be that they would rest in a decorative vessel. However, once I wrote out all the dreams, this didn't seem fitting. The dreams rested beside my bed for a few years, before I decided to rewrite them onto the handmade paper, which I cut up and reassembled into the warp and weft of the scroll. This way they would remain unreadable, even if technically written out and exposed. If participants no longer felt comfortable with me including their dream, they could get in touch with me. Everyone was thankfully fine with it!

The most rewarding part of this process was having people feel comfortable enough to share their dreams with me, and the trust placed in me to safe guard these dreams.

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!

Address

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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