09/03/13
Caroline Woolard a Brooklyn based artist, collaborated with New York MoMA as part of the Department of Education’s Artists Experiment initiative to create the MoMA Studio: Exchange Café, a social space in the mezzanine of MoMA's Education and Research building that is dedicated to exchange-based practices. Go to carolinewoodard.com to see more of her work.
01/24/13
Alex Hays is running in the Boston Marathon this April to raise money to give students from low-income homes the opportunity to receive outstanding arts education and college prep at Boston Arts Academy. Boston Arts Academy is an Oxbow member school.
01/17/13
Caroline Woolard is doing a project at MoMA Artists Experiment in New York, an ongoing collaboration between MoMA's Department of Education and four contemporary artists including Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Kenneth Goldsmith and Xaviera Simmons.
02/27/12
Caroline Woolard is teaching a class about barter at The New School. For her latest video of live/work/philosophy go to http://vimeo.com/31042328. She is also is co-founder of Trade School and will represent them for smART power in Delhi, India. Trade School is a non-traditional learning environment that runs on barter. Anyone can teach a class, and students sign up for classes by agreeing to meet the barter requests of teachers. Now in its third year, Trade School celebrates practical wisdom, mutual respect, and the social nature of exchange. Trade School classes range from weaving and grant writing to ghost hunting and balloon animals, and teachers have asked for everything from research and advice to vegetables.
12/08/10
Claire Fletcher is working at Chronicle Books in San Francisco as a Managing Editorial assistant. Two of her art pieces will be featured in one of their upcoming books called Everyting Is Going to Be OK. She's still working on art and to see some paintings and journal entries you can visit her blog at http://clairefletcher-meow.blogspot.com/. She's getting married next June in a double wedding ceremony along with her brother OS6 Alden Fletcher and his bride.
07/29/10
Ali Powley graduated summa cum laude from New York University with a double major in studio art and art history. She is now managing for Calvin Klein and is contemplating a law degree and pursuing a career in repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates.
07/29/10
Case Conover is living in the East Bay, silk-screening and working at a collectively run print shop, Patchwork Press.
02/26/10
Caroline Woolard – received $15,000 to finish developing www.OurGoods.org, a barter network that helps artists, designers, and producers of culture get independent projects done. In the past year, Caroline was an artist in residence at The MacDowell Colony, Watermill, and iLAND. Caroline is also currently a core member of two collaborative projects: KTC Architecture (building an off-the-grid house for artists for The Andes Sprouts Society) and Strataspore (mycology and art: www.strataspore.com). She lives in NYC and wishes she could visit Oxbow right now!
10/19/09
Case Conover completed a residency at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley where he focused on stamping, silkscreen, letterpress and intaglio. He also participated in the Power to the Peaceful festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
10/19/09
Alexei Bien held his debut Photography Opening this summer hosted by Alexis Handelman of Alexis Baking Company, Napa, CA.
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)
Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.
— John Powley, Parent
Oxbow School is one of the preeminent choices for creative high school students interested in the arts. Their project-based, integrated approach to learning mirrors the approach of many top art schools. At California College of the Arts, we are thrilled to see applicants who have attended Oxbow because we know they are well prepared for the rigors of college level work. I wish there had been an Oxbow School when I was a high school student!
— Stephen Beal, President, California College of the Arts
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