Anne Moertel

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Anne Moertel

06/25/15

Anne Moertel graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010 with a BFA in Visual Communications. Since 2011, she's been with the Chicago-based non-profit Healthy Schools Campaign as a Designer and Creative Strategist.

Healthy Schools Campaign is a social justice organization focused on creating healthy environments for all students across Chicago and across the country. They work to provide access to healthy food, physical activity, and healthy classroom environments - check out their facebook page. Anne said her memories of Oxbow are closely linked to her work.

Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.

— John Powley, Parent

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

Oxbow was, without a doubt, the best part of my high school experience. A year after leaving, and I still feel as though it were yesterday that I was sitting on the lawn, eating in the dining hall, and laughing with my friends in the studios.

— Julia Weir, Fall 2015

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