CRYSTAL FLOYD IS A VISUAL ARTIST BASED IN northeast fl

As a visual artist and naturalist native to Northeast Florida, Crystal Floyd’s work explores themes of nature, storytelling, conservation, environmentalism and adaptive reuse, transforming hand-prepared specimens, collected ephemera and manipulated materials into naturalistic vignettes. Her artistic practice examines the intersections of art, science, and nature. Celebrating the deep relationships between living beings & the natural world and translating emotions & ideas, Floyd uses her collections to craft narratives that invite reflection on our relationship with the environment. Her gosl is to encourage observation and participation in the natural world and closer examination of the individual role and responsibilities we have as humans. In addition to exhibiting personal work and completing commissioned projects, she regularly teaches public and private terrarium construction, art assemblage and gardening workshops at various museums, art venues and gardens. Through her art, Floyd seeks to bridge the personal with the universal, inspiring innovative thinking and creation while fostering growth and fulfillment through shared experiences and collective action.

Crystal serves as Studio Director and works from her art space at CoRK Arts District, a large warehouse facility that houses gallery & work space for over 60 artists. Since 2015, Crystal has also filled the role of bimonthly visual arts curator for both Bold Bean Coffee Roasters locations. Crystal is a recipient of an ArtVentures Individual Artist Grant from the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida.  She received an Executive Certificate in Arts and Culture Strategy through the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice | NAS in October 2019. An avid gardener, Crystal works with Wacca Pilatka Landscaping & Design Services and has enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about native flora and fauna. In April 2024, she co-hosted and curated an art show with Adam Arendell & Betsy Harris of the Ixia Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society entitled “Floribunda – Celebrating Florida’s Unique Biodiversity” in CoRK’s East Gallery, which drew over 100 regional artists and makers and hundreds of guests to benefit Ixia.

Crystal’s exhibition at the Thomas Center Gallery’s juried show in Gainesville, “Cross Creek Rising: The Consciousness of Land and Water,” received an Honorable Mention. Her work has appeared nationally, in shows at Light Grey Art Lab (Minneapolis, MN), the Gallery at Avalon Island (Orlando, FL), Flower Pepper Gallery (Pasadena, CA), and other locations throughout the United States. Locally, she has had her work on view in the offices of the City Council and on display for six months in the concourse gallery of the Jacksonville International Airport. Her pieces were featured at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens during the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida ArtVentures Anniversary Exhibition and were on exhibit in their Concourse Gallery from September 2020 through February 2021. In December 2023, she participated in the annual invitational show at the Butterfield Garage Gallery in St. Augustine as a guest of batik artist Cindy Wilson.

Crystal currently has a solo exhibition, entitled Kindred Spirits, on view in the Lightner Museum’s East Room Gallery in St. Augustine from October 30 2024 through January 27, 2025. She looks forward to an artist residency with the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve beginning in March of 2025.

Comprehensive CV available upon request

For purchasing and commission inquiries, please email crystal@crystalfloyd.com.

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