CRYSTAL FLOYD IS A VISUAL ARTIST BASED IN northeast fl

As a visual artist and aspiring naturalist native to Northeast Florida, Crystal Floyd’s work explores themes of nature, storytelling, and adaptive reuse, transforming collected ephemera and manipulated materials into naturalistic vignettes. Drawing inspiration from the environment and science, she uses preserved insects, plants, taxonomic items, natural artifacts, miniatures and found objects to activate magical narratives. Her practice focuses on encouraging observation and participation in the natural world and closer examination of the individual role and responsibilities we all have to our environment. 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. Her goal is to have her work evoke a sense of connection and wonder in the viewer, hopefully causing a ripple effect of increased compassion, creative thinking and caring. 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. Her pieces were recently featured at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens during the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida ArtVentures Anniversary Exhibition in early 2021 and were on view in their Concourse Gallery from September 2020 through February 2021. She was recently featured in Void Magazine’s February 2021 Issue.

Since 2015, Crystal has also filled the role of bimonthly visual arts curator for all three Bold Bean Coffee Roasters locations. Her exhibition at the Thomas Center Gallery’s 2017 juried show, “Cross Creek Rising: The Consciousness of Land and Water,” received an Honorable Mention. Her work has appeared nationally, most recently in shows at Light Grey Art Lab (Minneapolis, MN), the Gallery at Avalon Island (Orlando, FL), Flower Pepper Gallery (Pasadena, CA), and other locations in the United States. Locally, she has recently had her work on view in the offices of the City Council and had work on display for six months in the concourse gallery of the Jacksonville International Airport. Crystal is a recipient of a 2013 ArtVentures Individual Artist Grant from the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida and a Community First Cares Grant in 2018.  Her exhibition with fellow artist Eric Gillyard, entitled "Dark Nature," won Folio's Best of Jax award for Best Art Exhibition of 2012 and her work was featured in a an article and on the cover of Folio's Fall Arts Issue in September 2017. 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.

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