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.
Oxbow opened me up to what was out there in the world to go out and grab, and gave me so much that I take with me everywhere I go, with everything I do.
— Nina Palomba, Spring 2008
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
It's been a whirlwind week, but also a time when I sang the praises of Oxbow to my colleagues. I've been thinking much about how Oxbow is an exemplar of true education. That art centers the curriculum is hardly surprising, and for those of us who work within the traditional educational mold Oxbow offers a gold standard of focused project based learning. Beyond the school's approach to immersive experience are the intangibles which make Oxbow different. The sense of community and of working together, even as each student retained their strong individual presence is palpable. The feeling of warmth and trust between the adults and the nearly adults in the Oxbow community could be felt throughout the campus. The openness of the architecture and interconnectedness of the three studios in themselves speak of the Oxbow philosophy and identity. More than form follows function, the physical attributes of Oxbow have a distinct warmth and invite exploration.
I'm sure that the ongoing challenges of leading and reinventing your school might sometimes keep you from having the time to see Oxbow with the fresh eyes of a visitor, but your steady presence and vision are really visible in every detail. Thank you for inviting me to one of the most profound experiences in my career.
— Ken Rush, Visual Arts Department, Packer Collegiate Institute
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