Sam Wadsworth received a prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Annual Art Award at his graduation from The Packer Collegiate Institute. The award was established in 1984 and each year, a select number of secondary schools with noteworthy programs in the visual arts are invited by RISD's President to nominate an accomplished artist from the senior class to receive this distinction. Sam also had an unprecedented five films that were finalists in the Packer Collegiate School 2015 Film Festival and won the award for Best Experimental Film.
If at any point Oxbow doubts the good it does, I just want to reassure you all that you’re changing the lives of young artists every semester.
— Colin Davis, Fall 2009
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
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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