09/12/12
Lucia Ippolito is working on a new project in San Francisco called the "Missions Makeover Mural" and since May of this year has been painting the mural in the Mission District's Balmy Alley. It is a public art project that she's designed and created right outside her house with help from family and volunteers. She launched a Kickstarter campaign online to help raise funds and to get the word out. She appreciates all comments about the work or memories of Balmy Alley
06/14/12
Anne Moertel graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2010 and now works as the in-house designer for the non-profit Healthy Schools Campaign (April 2011 to present).
05/27/12
Mollie Biewald was married on May 26, 2012 to Patrick Perry. Molly is a fourth-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College and graduates this Spring. She is to begin an internship in primary care internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in July. She graduated from Columbia University.
02/18/12
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06/30/11
Hunter Doyle - graduated in Fall 2010 from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation he traveled Europe for a month. Now back in Chicago he spends time teaching Middle School students in the Chicago Public schools about printmaking. He also works at Anchor Graphics, a not-for-profit fine art press bringing a diverse community of youth, emerging and established artists, and the public to advance the fine art of printmaking by integrating education with the creation of prints.
06/29/11
Katarina Schmidt just graduated Magna Cum Laude from Central Washington University with a BA in Art and a BA in Anthropology! She's taking a break to live school free and adventure-full. Look for her art showing in the Pacific Northwest, or on her web-site at www.rekartak.weebly.com. She's been in touch with Oxbow OS12 alumni Lisa and Katelyn. She's traveling to the west coast this summer and then in search of an artistic career based in the social services. To quote Katie "Hooray for art and people! (and dinosaurs and battleships still, of course)."
She hopes all is well in the Bay Area, and that Oxbow is flourishing. If there are any Oxbow alumni from the Pacific Northwest or who are now working in the Northwest she would love to connect, network, do some community art! Please contact her by email at rekartak@gmail.com.
07/29/10
Joshua King continues his art career in painting and etching and plans on returning to Oxbow campus to intern.
07/29/10
Molly O'Neill is a senior at Rhode Island School of Design and is currently working on a music video with Evan Polivy.
The art that goes on in most high schools is usually relatively skill-based. At Oxbow, there is more emphasis on looking and seeing and more critical thinking about what you are doing, the human connection, that personal element. Through art you can begin to understand yourself better. That may be the biggest eye-opener for students. It is almost a preview of college. Get out of the mechanical factory high school education and get into something open, new, and invigorating in a small environment.
— Bill Barrett, Former Oxbow Board Member, Former Executive Director of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD)
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
Oxbow forced me to create, and by creating, I established foundation for my thought.
— Jamie Roux, Spring 2003
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