Nina Palomba is in her junior year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is embarking on the journey of arts education and is in the midst of studying for the exam to enter into the department and plans on graduating with a BFAAE. She wants to work with non profits around Chicago that focus on after school art programs for high school students, and teaching them basic concepts of the adobe suite and how to use that in t-shirt and skateboard design. She is releasing her fall/winter collection with Allegiance Skateboard, the entire site is about to undergo a drastic switch to involve much more of the community! Anyone involved will be able to login and post what inspires them, what they have been making, etc. She meets new people nearly everyday through Allegiance, and it has truly been a remarkable journey so far, all from the love of art and skateboarding!
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
At Oxbow, I got to try inquiry-based learning for the first time. This allowed me to control the amount of rigor and the depth of research in my topic, as well as picking a topic that I found most interesting. From going through this new process of learning, I feel excited to go back to the rigor of my sending school to apply the inquiry-based perspective to my classes.
— Meave Cunningham, Fall, 2015
I want to thank you all for being so supportive and wonderful, thank you for running this incredible program. And half of my acceptance to RISD is because of Oxbow. (Especially thanks to Chris who wrote my letter of rec, to Jennifer who revised my essays, to the admissions team who helped me with my portfolio.
— Jeff Shen, Fall 2014
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