DeYoung Day

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DeYoung Day

03/06/16

OS34 experienced two Oxbow traditions on Thursday, visiting the DeYoung Museum and afterward strolling across the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum's permanent collection offered the usual discoveries and excitement as the students studied many beloved works in person for the first time. Oxbow shared the space with a group of elementary school art students as well, and enjoyed the correlations between themselves and the younger children, later reflecting how grateful they were to witness arts education fostered so early on.

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photos by Will M, Gracie R, Ella S, Sabrina C, Kat L

At Oxbow, the eye and the hand are inseparable from the mind and because their peers are also artists, students adopt fresh attitudes toward their work.

— Charles Altieri, Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

In the year leading up to Oxbow, I became obsessed with the program, I was entranced with reading testimonials and researching interdisciplinary learning styles. When I arrived at Oxbow I was never disappointed, despite my endless expectations. I will forever cherish the time I spent at Oxbow and the connections I made there. Through Oxbow I was able to hone into the ideas I was thinking about, to refine my artistic process and to see the world in a new light every day of my life. I'm not going to say that without Oxbow I wouldn't be the person I am today, but I will say that without Oxbow it would have taken me at least four years to become who I am after one Oxbow semester.

— Phoebe Dubisch, Fall 2018

Oxbow gave Will a voice and a community. Under the nurturing attention of his wonderful teachers, he learned that he had the intellectual capability to express himself and that his unique point of view was, in fact, an asset.

— David Becker, Parent

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