Artist and musician Olivia Block’s forthcoming exhibition, “Four Channels,” will be a collaboration between the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College and the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR). The exhibition will include two site-specific sound installations. The first will open at GTMNERR (also known as GTM Research Reserve) on Feb. 23, in conjunction with their State of the Reserve Symposium, and will continue through March 2. CEAM’s presentation will kick off with a walkthrough of the exhibition on March 2 at 4 p.m., followed by an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will continue through April 14.

Flagler College’s Women of Vision Advisory Board will host its fourth annual Power of the Purse® luncheon on May 17, 2018. The event will include a silent auction of purses, followed by a luncheon and program in the college’s historic Ponce de Leon Hall. The funds raised will support scholarships and educational opportunities for women attending Flagler College.

In honor of Flagler College President Joseph Joyner’s inauguration, the college's Gallery Management class will hold an exhibition featuring reproductions of political posters from the Yanker Poster Collection of the Library of Congress. Students will host a walk through of “Progress? The Art of Activism” on Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. at the Kenan Gallery, located on the first floor of Kenan Hall.  

Flagler College will hold a day of personal finance and business workshops for the community on Feb. 17 focusing on topics like starting a small business, investing basics and estate planning.

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum will host experimental filmmaker Sky Hopinka as the CEAM Artist in Residence for Spring 2018. During his visit, Hopinka will work closely with Flagler College students and faculty through class visits and critiques, and will give a workshop for Flagler students. The museum will screen a selection of Hopinka’s short films, including “Dislocation Blues” (2017), “Anti-Objects” (2016), “I’ll Remember you as you Were, not What You’ll Become,” (2016) and “Visions of an Island,” (2016) on Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. in Kenan Hall on the Flagler campus, room 300. The screening, followed by a short Q & A, will be free and open to the public.

Flagler College’s Ideas and Images lecture series will host Andrew Nagorski, former senior editor of Newsweek International and former vice president and director of public policy for the East/West Institute on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. Nagorski’s talk is titled “From the Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia” and will focus on Russia’s history, current actions and future prospects. Nagorksi’s talk will be presented in the Lewis Auditorium, at Flagler College, 14 Granada St.

Flagler College will celebrate the inauguration of Dr. Joseph G. Joyner as the fourth president of Flagler College with a week of community-focused events in February centered around the theme of “Citizenship in a Diverse Democracy.”

Flagler College will hold a public screening of the documentary "Dare Not Walk Alone" followed by a panel on the legacy of the civil rights movement on Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium.

Flagler College and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will hold a Naturalization Ceremony on Feb. 21 in the Lewis Auditorium for approximately 50 individuals as part of the college’s Inaugural Week for new President Dr. Joseph G. Joyner.

Beginning Jan. 18 and running through Jan. 21, Flagler College will play host to the Saint Augustine Film Festival, featuring films from Syria, Georgia, Afghanistan, Poland, Estonia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, among others.

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College are pleased to announce "A Tondo for Rajon Rondo," an exhibition of recent work by Jibade-Khalil Huffman, including video, photography and sculpture. The exhibition will kick off with an artist talk on Friday, Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. in the Gamache-Koger Theater in the Ringhaver Student Center on the Flagler campus, followed by an opening reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Flagler College’s Ideas and Images lecture series will host Dr. Laurie S. Stoff, Senior Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, for a talk on “American Women and the Russian Revolution Then and Now” on Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Flagler Room of Ponce de Leon Hall, 74 King St.

Now that her first semester at Flagler College is complete, Dr. Joanna M. T. Krajewski has found a balance between educating students on the world of strategic communication, and focusing her free time on her own personal research concerning sustainable practices.

A winner has been chosen from among 34 submissions from Flagler College Professor Natalie Stephenson’s design classes for a new food concept at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. Lauren Curtis’ torpedo design will be the logo for the Tin Pickle Local Gedunk, a snack counter in the newly restored World War II Garage, recently unveiled during the Museum’s Grand Opening in September. 

The Flagler College Honors Program is no longer without a home; students recently moved their operations to the Palm Cottage. A committee of Honors students moved into the Palm Cottage at the end of the 2017 fall semester.

Flagler College announced that it has awarded Melissa Southwell, associate professor of Natural Sciences, the 2018 Kahler Grant for her proposal “Shoreline Development and Coastal Hazards.”

Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s Lead Editor for Politics and Digital Audience, will give a talk on “The Golden Age of Grievance” at the Flagler College Forum on Government and Public Policy on Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. in the college’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St.

Nicholas Johnston, one of the founding editors of online media company Axios, will speak at Flagler College’s Forum on Government and Public Policy on Thursday, Feb. 8, about the complexities of building a media company during the Trump presidency.

High school students from across the nation and our state will have the opportunity to learn about the academic disciplines of the humanities at Flagler College, specifically focused on St. Augustine, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Florida Humanities Council.

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