News and Updates

The Gail Keenan Art Center will host a Saturday Art Class with Suzanne Findeisen on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Open to adults and young adults, with a max class size of 8, participants will be introduced to the art of indigo dying using the Japanese folding technique called Shibori. Participants will be provided with directions on how to mix the dye, fold fabrics and complete the dying process. Students will be provided material,...Read More

The third graders of Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach have established the independent school as one of 150,000 locations across the globe to offer a Little Free Library.  Located just outside the CES main building at 5065 Espy Avenue in Long Beach,  the free standing unit is accessible to the general public seven days a week, 24 hours a day. According to third-grade teacher Jillianne Larson, her students were...Read More

“It takes a village” was brought to life at Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach this week when 25 parents volunteered to step into CES Classrooms while their children’s teachers attended the 2022 Mississippi Winter Literacy Conference at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. For three days, December 7-9, parents partnered with staff teaching assistants to cover Kindergarten, through Third Grades while each of those class’s teachers attended the three-day conference. ...Read More

Coast Episcopal School’s Third Grade Class traveled to the University of Southern Mississippi on Wednesday, October 26, to experience the de Grummond Children’s Collection, one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary youth literature in North America.  The students, who are first introduced to the concept of book writing in first grade, have been focusing on the process of writing since the beginning of the current school year.  Third...Read More

Coast Episcopal School of Long Beach has become a NASA ASTRO CAMP® Community Partner, a National/International Partner Program that provides NASA-unique STEM engagement activities and experiences to youth, families and educators in their own communities.   The independent school is now one of a total of 201 NASA ACCP partners in 29 states and six countries, and one of 14 MS Gulf Coast partners.   The NASA ACCP (NASA ASTRO CAMP®...Read More

Coast Episcopal School students went on the road last week when the Long Beach independent school’s third grade traveled to Foxtown, MS to experience Red Bluff, and its fifth grade walked the Mississippi Gulf Coast beach south of Espy Avenue in search of nurdles, small plastic pellets. Red Bluff, a canyon formed by erosion from the Pearl River, became an outdoor classroom for 10 CES third graders last Thursday, September...Read More

The Gail Keenan Art Center at Coast Episcopal School is excited to announce Conversations in Clay, a group show featuring the work of some of the Gulf Coast’s most dynamic ceramic artists. Conversations in Clay will be on view September 9 to October 7, 2022. The show will feature work by artists Allen Chen, Stacey Johnson Hardy, Danielle Inabinet, Ellen Ellis Lee and Samantha Rodriguez. “The artists in this show...Read More

Five hundred acres in the Kiln became a classroom when Coast Episcopal School students visited La Terre Farms on Tuesday, April 26. In keeping with the Long Beach independent school’s tradition of experiential learning to encourage students to appreciate the world around them, the youngsters who experienced the bucolic property are members of the school’s newly formed garden club. The students were provided hands-on opportunities to appreciate the wide variety...Read More

The Gail Keenan Art Center is excited to offer three upcoming workshops to be led by three of the artists featured in our current exhibit, Paper Fools. Paint, collage, stitch with Suzanne Findeisen  Saturday, May 7, 202210 a.m. – 2 p.m. Adults (max class size 10) Please pack a lunch/snack Cost: $65 ~ REGISTER HERE Participants will be introduced to a variety of painting techniques used to create a collection of...Read More