10/24/19
Merideth Hillbrand graduated from University of California, Riverside with her MFA. She is currently teaching at University of Texas at Austin through the St Elmo Arts Residency Fellowship. See more of her work at meridethhillbrand.com.
Photo by Josh Schaedel.
10/27/16
Naomi Binzen is living in Willams, Oregon working in organic farming and sustainable living. She still loves photography. She donated and sold a number of images last spring at a benefit for the Legal Defense Fund supporting the ban on GMO seeds in Josephine County where Williams is based.
06/21/16
Ramona Magsaysay has a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and is working in New York focusing on fashion illustration and production assistance work. She most recently was a production/staffing coordinator for the MET Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also works on some similar fashion assistance work with a few magazines for Vogue and other publications. She is still painting and active in her artistic practice and has shown in a few small galleries in Brooklyn. See Ramona's fashion illustration and current work.
04/19/16
Marshall Henrickson graduated from Vassar and then worked for the Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco for a few months, continuing his budding interest in craft beer. He then traveled to Bogota, Columbia to learn Spanish and explore the country. He began work at a premiere craft brewery there then the company moved him to Panama where he became a head brewer. He completed an apprenticeship under the craft beer veteran Brad Kraus as well as a 6-month intensive chemistry, microbiology and practical engineering course with the American Brewers Guild to master the theoretical components of beer making. He recently moved to Miami to start a new brewery with friends from Columbia. More to come!
03/05/15
 |
| Tom Ungerer, Eat, 1967 |
Nora Rodriguez wrote the February 6th article Tomi Ungerer: All in One for the Daily Serving. The article is on Tomi Ungerer's current exhibition on view at Drawing Center in New York through March 22. The Daily Serving is an international publication for contemporary art.
"Tomi Ungerer: All in One, now on view at the Drawing Center, is a joyful retrospective of the artist's career as children's-book author, satirical cartoonist, political illustrator, and erotic artist. Sadly it's also incredibly timely. Because though Ungerer was a beloved illustrator, he was also rejected for the explicit imagery in his political and erotic work." - Nora Rodriguez
See more of Nora's work.
03/26/14
Lisa Teas is a member of Island Artist Gallery and was instrumental in founding this artist's cooperative in her home town of Sitka, Alaska. She is busy developing her art, spending time in the wilderness of Southeast Alaska and teaches at Sitka Fine Arts Camp. The camp's mission is to build community in Alaska by providing opportunities in arts, culture and recreation in an inclusive, educational and inspirational environment. You can see her current work at www.lisateas.com.
10/03/12
Nora Rodriguez was a Visiting Artist at Cow House Studios in Ireland this summer. She lived on a working family farm, worked with young people, and made work in a unique environment. To see more of Nora’s work click on the Cowhouse link above.
04/06/12
Amelia Sechman graduated in May 2011 from California College of the Arts (CCA) with a degree in Photography and started working full time at Fraenkel Gallery in December 2011. For the past few years she worked at TBW Books as the Project Manager/Assistant Editor and interned at Pier 24 Photography. She has also worked as a freelance writer for the online art publication Daily Serving an international publication for contemporary art and is experimenting with curating. She curated her first show called "Are We Not Men?" at Root Division a community arts and education organization in January 2012. The show examined the failures in the relationships and dialogs between humans and computers.
04/06/12
Clara Dudley is a volunteer and site supervisor for the Santa Cruz needle exchange program. She was inspired early on during an Oxbow presentation by Jeff Schoenberg on homeless IDUs in San Francisco and the visibility of his kind of ethnography. It is a movement close to her heart (harm reduction, needle exchange, grassroots disease prevention, drug policy reform, etc). She has been a co-speaker at the National Harm Reduction Conference and is very proud of this program....to quote her "we didn't start it but we carry it on with love." She is also the Chapter Leader for the newly formed Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) chapter at UC Santa Cruz.
02/29/12
Naomi Binzen graduated from Prescott College last May with a concentration in Cultural and Regional Studies. Her senior project was a series of "BMosiacs" about Monsamto done is seeds. She'll spend three months this summer interning and doing leadership training on an organic fam in Patagonia, Arizona.
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
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)
In the year leading up to Oxbow, I became obsessed with the program, I was entranced with reading testimonials and researching interdisciplinary learning styles. When I arrived at Oxbow I was never disappointed, despite my endless expectations. I will forever cherish the time I spent at Oxbow and the connections I made there. Through Oxbow I was able to hone into the ideas I was thinking about, to refine my artistic process and to see the world in a new light every day of my life. I'm not going to say that without Oxbow I wouldn't be the person I am today, but I will say that without Oxbow it would have taken me at least four years to become who I am after one Oxbow semester.
— Phoebe Dubisch, Fall 2018
A School Like No Other