Featured Artist: Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell (January)

We’re thrilled to feature the powerful work of Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell for this year's newsletter! 🖼️✨ Each month we'll be sharing their artwork along with a description of the art from Carmelle herself. Enjoy her art which invites us to slow down, notice the details, and reflect on the deeper layers of meaning within and around us. 

Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell (born 1991, Miami FL; active Princeton, NJ)

The Illumination (Mapou Tree), 2024

Acrylic and Ultra-violet Ink on Canvas

30x40

Commissioned by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

About The Artist: 

Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell is an interdisciplinary artist and visual theologian whose work explores ancestral memory, sacred imagination, and communal care.

Website: carmellebeaugelin.com

Instagram: @carmellebcaldwell 

About The Art: Created during a Reflective Leadership Grant gathering at Duke Divinity, The Illumination (2024) weaves together worship, scripture, and communal reflection. Participants’ discernment responses are embedded in invisible ink and revealed only by ultraviolet light, echoing the Spirit’s work of uncovering what is hidden. The central image remains intentionally ambiguous, inviting viewers to discern whether they see barrenness, transformation, or new life.