News and Updates

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

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