Fine Art Internship, Textiles— Flagler College
For this internship at Flagler College, over-seen by Professor Laura Mongiovi, I was tasked with taking photographs of historical textile pieces around St. Augustine, FL. The images were uploaded to a database on Omeka in hopes to gain more information about the textiles and St. Augustine’s history.
Tolomato Cemetery. St. Augustine, Florida.
Tolomato Cemetery was originally a Franciscan mission village for Guale Indians from Georgia, known as Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato. The cemetery became the first burial site of the Minorcans, who arrived in Saint Augustine with their priest, Father Pedro Camps, in 1777. The cemetery then became a parish cemetery for the Cathedral from 1784 until 1884.
In the photographs above are wood scraps, cloth and other debris thought to be second class relics. The artifacts were pulled from the burial site of Father Varela, in 2011 during floor and crypt restorations.
Historical Society. St. Augustine, FL
This silk thread textile artwork was found in the archives of the Historical Society in St. Augustine, Florida. While there is no updated information about the piece or its creator, the frame is marked with the name “Alex Albert”, and Saint Augustine 1853.