Amelia Sechman graduated in May 2011 from California College of the Arts (CCA) with a degree in Photography and started working full time at Fraenkel Gallery in December 2011. For the past few years she worked at TBW Books as the Project Manager/Assistant Editor and interned at Pier 24 Photography. She has also worked as a freelance writer for the online art publication Daily Serving an international publication for contemporary art and is experimenting with curating. She curated her first show called "Are We Not Men?" at Root Division a community arts and education organization in January 2012. The show examined the failures in the relationships and dialogs between humans and computers.
The Oxbow School has both a local and national reputation for excellence. Oxbow produces great artists. In its studio, these emerging artists have a community of creative peers who respect one another and foster an expectation to produce thoughtful, sophisticated work.
— Paul Coffey, Vice Provost and Dean of Community Engagement, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Hey guys! OS33 alumni here! I received a full ride to California College of the Arts and just wanted to tell you guys that if it wasn't for the Oxbow experience and the great faculty who saw the potential in me I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did. I am still waiting for other colleges at the moment but I think this might be the school I will attend this fall!
— Keily Maldonado , Fall 2015
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
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