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Jessica Garcia

03/15/12

Jessica Garcia was accepted to Ringling College of Art and Design for Illustration. She won a National Gold Key in The Scholastic Art and Writing competition this past Spring for her Oxbow Final Project animation film.

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Sophie Erb

02/18/12

Sophie Erb is on a European excursion and she's really enjoying the culture. She walks practically everywhere, hikes quite often, and the accessibility of public transportation makes the community feel really close. She's taking AP art history and currently studying the Renaissance. She just finished writing a paper on Mannerism, and in particular, a piece by Pontormo and Andrea del Sarto. She's headed to Florence to make a presentation about this piece and spend four days in museums and galleries with her class. In art class, she's learning how to paint, improving her graphite skills, and developing her ink work and says the architecture in Europe has definitely informed her work. She spent the Christmas break in Rome with family.

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Randy De La Cruz

02/17/12

Randy De La Cruz is working with several local projects at his school Design and Architecture Senior High School. He recently returned from Young Arts week as an NFAA Young Arts finalist in Visual Arts. His work is featured on the DASH website as January's Feature Portfolio and he's currently working on his own website and we'll post the link when completed.

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Brooke Fougere

11/15/11

Brook Fougere is busy studying for SAT's and choosing which colleges she wants to apply to. She is the photography editor for the yearbook at her high school.

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Camille Hallin

09/22/11

Camille Hallin went to work as a camp counselor for 8 weeks at Camp Galileo following her semester at Oxbow. She said it was a lot of fun and a really great learning experience.

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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

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

Hey guys! OS33 alumni here! I received a full ride to California College of the Arts and just wanted to tell you guys that if it wasn't for the Oxbow experience and the great faculty who saw the potential in me I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did. I am still waiting for other colleges at the moment but I think this might be the school I will attend this fall!

— Keily Maldonado , Fall 2015

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