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Kristen Gibbs

09/04/13

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Hypnagogic

Kristen Gibbs graduated from the certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and will complete her undergraduate degree at University of Pennsylvania through PAFA and UPenn's combined BFA program. Kris received the John R. Conner Memorial Prize in Printmaking and the Henry C. Pratt Prize in Printmaking at PAFA and sold paintings in PAFA'S Annual Student Exhibition. She just finished a very rewarding internship teaching drawing and painting in a free after-school program for high school students in Philadelphia and is currently teaching at a preschool. She was also included in the Kennedy Center’s 12th Annual Infinite Earth exhibition of emerging artists.

Advice I would give to future students is to just do it and come to Oxbow and not overthink it because it will most likely (99.9%) be the best decision you have made in your life.

— Malachi Snyder, Spring 2018

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

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