News and Updates

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

Thousands of visitors who arrive and depart from the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport will be greeted by student-generated works of art displayed on a first-of-its-kind Youth Art Wall installation.  More than 20 original pieces, created by Coast Episcopal School students representing Kindergarten through Sixth Grades, will be on display for at least the next 12 months, according to Stacey Hardy, Art Instructor at the independent school located in Long Beach, Miss....Read More

The Gail Keenan Art Center at Coast Episcopal School is excited to announce Paper Fools: Works on Paper, a group show featuring paper-based art created by some of the area’s most dynamic artists. will be on view April 1 to April 30, 2022. Curated by Gulf Coast photographer and artist Ann Madden, the show will also feature works by artists Kat Fitzpatrick, Laurin Stennis, Church Goin’ Mule, Mary Hardy, Paulette Dove,...Read More

Coast Episcopal School is pleased to announce the participating artists and award winners of the Gail Keenan Art Center 2022 High School Art Exhibition.  The exhibit, part of the Children in the Arts program at Coast Episcopal School, was on display in February and is an integral piece of the Gail Keenan Art Center’s mission to help inspire young artists in our community.  The 2021-2022 Children in the Arts program...Read More

The Coast Episcopal School Robo-Raiders, seven energetic, enthusiastic and engaged sixth-graders from the 70-year-old independent school in Long Beach, brought home a first-place win in Core Values win at the state-wide FIRST LEGO League Competition held in Pearl, Miss., on Feb. 12 One of 21 teams from around Mississippi participating in the competition, the Robo-Raiders placed seventh overall in the robotics competition, after completing three, hard-fought rounds.   Pleased with the...Read More

When Coast Episcopal’s Head of School Jake Winter reached out to Melissa Flickinger to gauge her interest in teaching the school’s first Transitional Kindergarten Class, Flickinger responded with a resounding YES! The University of Southern Mississippi graduate has 13 years of experience in preschool and elementary education, with the last four as a Preschool Intervention Teacher. During that time, Flickinger had been keeping a watchful eye on research coming from...Read More