FLAGLER COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF
THE FLAGLER COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND DESIGN HAS AN
ESTABLISHED REGIONAL REPUTATION AND A GROWING NATIONAL ONE. 2
Our renowned status has to do with much more than the beautiful and historic setting of the campus in St. Augustine, Florida. With a dedicated teaching faculty of professional artists and designers, we have an unbeatable combination for young creatives: a thriving studio program alongside a small liberal arts college. This allows us to offer more than the professional and for-profit art schools due to the comprehensive academics this liberal arts background provides. We also attract students who have attended or considered attending one of the big universities because we are small and every student gets individualized attention. We produce students who are intellectually flexible and creative. This is important in a job market that is unstable because students will need to be prepared, adaptable, and multifaceted.
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As one of the largest departments on campus, with three distinct disciplinary majors- Art History, Fine Art, and Graphic Design, we also enjoy state-of-the-art studio facilities in the Molly Wiley Art Building and an impressive gallery space within the Crisp-Ellert Museum of Art in which both student art and the work of visiting nationally and internationally recognized artists exhibit. Our Fine Art majors also have the option of applying for and receiving the distinction of a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. The numbers of BFA students who have gone on to the country’s best graduate schools is testament to the success of this program.
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Top- Installation view of Launch, a collaboration between advanced drawing and sculpture students and local fourth graders, exhibited in the Crisp-Ellert Museum Bottom- Kristie Feltner and Ryan Tempro
Our faculty embraces the need for students to
learn by facing multi-disciplinary, real world challenges. We provide experiences where students can apply their strong studio preparation and encounter issues, conflicts, needs, and situations that they will find in their creative lives after graduation. Below are some of the most recent situations created by faculty for students to engage with a wider campus and city community:
• Students in Prof. Natalie Stephenson’s graphic design classes partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida to develop promotional campaigns for six fundraising events to support programs like the Holiday Toy Drive and Summer Camp. • Professors Sara Pedigo and Chris Balashak led a group of 13 students to New York City in the program’s annual Spring Break Study Away Program. Students visited working artist’s studios, toured a non-profit art institution, and visited a multitude of museums and galleries. • Prof. Sara Pedigo’s Learning Community drawing students visited the city of St. Augustine’s Archeologist to learn how locally discovered artifacts were cleaned, catalogued and stored. Students were allowed to access and draw artifacts not on public display. • Students in Prof. Leslie Robison’s Relational Art course visited juveniles in prison to instigate a seven-week–long discussion about what it means to be vulnerable. As a final event, each participant performed an action or a “gesture of vulnerability” that would have a positive impact on themselves or on the lives of others. • Prof. Don Martin’s students in his “Public Art/Mosaic “ course designed and created a mosaic fountain for the new Admissions building, Hanke Hall. • Prof. Chris Balaschak’s Art History II course wrote collaborative interpretative texts on paintings hanging in Ponce Hall’s Flagler Room for the 125th anniversary of the Hotel Ponce de Leon.
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• Prof. Laura Mongiovi’s Installation Art students worked with local businesses and participated in St. Augustine’s First Friday Art Walk by creating a series of “peephole” boxes in storefront windows. • Prof. Patrick Moser arranged for artist Lee Walton, whose work was recently featured in ArtNews, to create a site-specific interactive work of art on campus. Mr. Walton celebrated the act of learning by offering and amplifying personal guitar lessons open to the entire college community. Students, faculty, staff and local citizens participated. • Prof. Don Martin’s illustration students collaborated with the capstone course in the Natural Science Department, producing original artwork to support the research of the science students. • Prof. Leslie Robison’s students worked with the Council on Aging to visit senior citizens, engage in conversations and create multigenerational relationships and works of art that were highlighted in two exhibits titled “Life Lessons,” and “The Buddy System: The Art of Companionship.”
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• Students in Prof. Natalie Stephenson’s web design classes re-imagined the online experience for a national sports brand. Students met with the client, developed innovative concepts, and then pitched their ideas. Several of these will be incorporated into the redesigned site that’s scheduled to launch in October 2013. • Prof. Chris Balaschak’s Art History III class recreates contemporary artworks as a means to understanding the processes, materials, and experiences of contemporary art. • Prof. Laura Mongiovi’s students visit culturally significant locations such as the Lightner Museum and Kingsley Plantation. • Prof. Don Martin’s Public Art students worked with the students, faculty, and administration of Julington Creek Elementary School to produce a 30’ long mural for their campus • Prof Patrick Moser lead an interdisciplinary study abroad trip to Italy with humanities professor Timothy Johnson. Art students experienced the incredible art and architecture of Rome, Florence and Assisi.
Top Spread- Brianna Angelakis Bottom Left- Andi Parent Bottom Right- Callie Cheney
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Top Left- Brianna Angelakis Top Right- Alex Jackman Bottom- Pernilla Stellgren
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Top- Tony Sasso Bottom- Johanna Falzone and Maya de Ceano-Vivas
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GRADUATES OF THE FLAGLER ART AND DESIGN PROGRAM HAVE A
STRONG RECORD OF SUCCESS USING THEIR DEGREES. 12
Our students have been accepted to many fine graduate MA, MFA, and PhD programs including those at the following schools: • Pratt Institute, New York, NY • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA • Portland State University, Portland, OR • University of Boston, Boston, MA • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL • Washington University, St. Louis, MO • Parsons New School of Design, New York, NY • University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV • Moore College, Philadelphia, PA • University of Washington, Seattle, WA • Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL • West Carolina University, Asheville, NC • Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL • University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY • George Washington University, Washington D.C. • New York University, New York, NY • Washington State University, Pullman, WA • Towson University, Baltimore, MD • Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY • Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, England • Burren College of Art, University of Ireland, Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland
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GRADUATES HAVE ALSO FOUND EMPLOYMENT WHERE THEY USE THEIR DEGREES AT THESE
EXCEPTIONAL BUSINESSES, NON-PROFITS, SCHOOLS, AND DESIGN FIRMS:
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• Nike, Beaverton, OR • Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL • Anthropologie, Jacksonville, FL • Florida View Magazine, Port Orchard, FL • Vans, San Diego, CA • Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL • Fiesta Bowl, Phoenix, AZ • Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL • MoroccanOil, New York, NY • Restore NYC, New York, NY • Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL • Link Design, Los Angeles, CA • Folio Weekly, Jacksonville, FL • Carmichael Design, Chicago, IL • PGA Tours, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL • Applum, Chicago, IL • Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL • Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI • Burren College of Art- Department of Art & Ecology, County Clare, Ireland • Astro Studios Gaming Design, San Francisco, CA • Juli Shore Design, Oakland, CA • University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Jacksonville, FL • Museum of Modern Art, through the NYC Art Studio Practicum, New York, NY • Murray Middle School, St. Augustine, FL • Episcopal School of Jacksonville, FL • Central High School, Central, FL • Mess Marketing, Chicago, IL • Sun Coast Media Group, Punta Gorda, FL • Yellow Fever Creative, New York, NY • Red Antler, Brooklyn, NY • Alice + Olivia, New York, NY • POKE, New York, NY • PP+K, Tampa, FL • Saatchi & Saatchi, London, England • and many, many more... 15
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