Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell

Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell is a contemporary artist and visual theologian based in New Jersey. Born of Haitian heritage and shaped by the layered cultural landscape of the South Florida diaspora, Caldwell’s work emerges from the fertile ground between ancestral memory and sacred imagination. Rooted in Haitian aesthetics, theopoetics, and her South Floridian upbringing, her practice reflects an ongoing negotiation between migration and belonging, theological inheritance and becoming.

Caldwell’s layered compositions are shaped by theological inquiry and diasporic consciousness. Through material accumulation and abstraction, she reframes migration as a generative force, moving across geography, ancestry, and interior worlds. Her work invites contemplation, asking viewers to encounter color as archive, texture as testimony, and abstraction as a site of spiritual reckoning. At its most fundamental, Caldwell’s practice calls viewers to recover what has been obscured, to reimagine the sacred beyond ideological confines, and to recognize how ancestral wisdom continues to shape contemporary faith and culture.

Carmelle currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Artworks Trenton and is the 2025-2026 Artist in Residence and a Visiting Scholar at the Overseas Ministry Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ.

You may view Carmelle’s curriculum vitae here.