Please join us for a lecture with artist James Sansing.

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

James Sansing’s films have shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival among others.

His work has also been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ampersand International Arts, Mark Wolfe Contemporary as well as other venues, nationally and internationally.

Awards, residencies, and fellowships include the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, Recology, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Princess Grace Foundation and others.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Josh Faught.

Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Reveling in the suburban panic punctuated by a hysterical self-help culture, compulsion toward decoration, and docudramatic tragedy, Josh Faught's current work uses elements of textiles, collage, sculpture, and painting to triangulate between a space that negotiates the history of textiles, a social/political history, and personal history.

These mythologized reconfigurations respond to ongoing interests surrounding possibilities in narrative between object, ornamentation, sexual difference, desire, and the site of domestic dysfunction. The objects in Faught's work are often twins, explicit or sometimes tacit doppelgangers shadowing each other.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Jesse Fleming.

Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Fleming is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and co-founder of the artist collective Gatherall. He is part of an emerging group of artists and technologists innovating the convergence of media art and mindfulness. Fleming's motivation is to transmute, and at times lower our perceived boundary between self and other. To do this, he takes inspiration from contemplative maps where a practitioner is given systematic techniques to explore their world, perception, consciousness, and relation to other through direct experience. This is seen in Fleming’s artistic research and development — a hybrid output of his media art, installation, and filmmaking, lectures, and contemplative workshops.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Rebecca Manson.

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Rebecca Manson is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has received a Windgate Fellowship Award and a Windgate Project Grant. She has been a resident artist and Zentrum Fur Keramik and California State University Long Beach. Through her sculpture work and in the classroom, Rebecca is interested in clay as a metaphor for community and the body. The spherical form, a recurring theme in her work, celebrates the idea that small parts together amount to something impactful. Her work is frequently comprised of thousands of tiny, handmade porcelain parts which on their own may appear trivial, but in mass depict the power of togetherness. Through her upcoming interactive public outdoor sculpture, she challenges ideas about fragility.

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This year's Raffle offers two exciting packages:

* A VIP BottleRock weekend extravaganza! This awesome package includes two 3-day VIP admission passes and on-campus accommodations at Oxbow (right across the street from the concert venue). One parking spot included!

*Two tickets to the San Francisco Opera plus $100 to Hog Island Oyster Co. Enjoy the 2018-2019 San Francisco Opera performance of your choice, and a visit to Hog Island Oysters any time!

The drawing will take place at the Benefit on May 12 - you need not be present to win! All proceeds benefit the Oxbow School. Please click this link to purchase tickets!

We had a wonderful Art Opening Reception at the Robert Mondavi Winery on Friday, April 27. Thank you to all of you who came out and purchased art. Lots of the stunning pieces sold, but there are still some amazing offerings available.

Recently added: a private, curated tour of SFMOMA plus lunch at In Situ for 4-6 guests with art advisor/collector extraordinaire Sabrina Buell.

Have you seen some of the other Special Experiences being offered?
* Chez Panisse dinner for 10
* Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey's Private Client Director tasting of Vintage French Champagne
* Stinson Beach, Inverness and Jackson Hole vacation homes
* And many more!

Continuing through Friday, May 11 at 5 PM, we invite you to BID on these amazing wine offerings, unique experiences and art books; and to Peruse and Purchase Art from past Oxbow School Visiting Artists that is currently on exhibit at the Robert Mondavi Winery through May 8. To be clear, the art is being SOLD, not auctioned (ie. no bidding) - the artists set their own prices. All other items, wine, experiences and art books, are being auctioned, ie. yes, bid away! Highest bidder wins.

Happy shopping in support of The Oxbow School and the Stephen Thomas Scholarship Fund!

*Winning bidders and art purchasers will be contacted after May 14 and arrangements will be made to pick up or ship their items.

Artwork at top Left: Modernist Folksong by Kota Ezawa Right: Ingot 2 by Amy Kaufman

Date: Saturday, April 7 10 AM – 4 PM
Location: Oxbow School Campus, 530 Third Street, Napa, CA

Oxbow will be hosting Napa Makes, a curated craft event highlighting talented artisans in our local creative community. This event will be produced by Napa-based event studio, The Pollinate Brand (founded by Oxbow Alumna Jordan Felling, OS5). Daytime event is free and open to the public. When day turns to night, Napa Makes will offer a special fundraising dinner to benefit The Stephen Thomas Scholarship Fund. We are thrilled to welcome guest Chef Melissa Fernandez and an impressive line-up of Vintners. Limited seating! Dinner ticket link.

Event & Media Contact: Jordan@thepollinatebrand.com

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Opening Reception on Friday, April 27 at 6pm at Robert Mondavi Winery in the Vineyard Room. PLEASE RSVP HERE!

Exhibited art will be for sale through May 8 to benefit the Stephen Thomas Scholarship Fund.

In the school's 19+ year history, over 140 professional Visiting Artists have graced our program, and so far over 70 have generously donated a piece to the Works on Paper Exhibit at Mondavi in support of the Stephen Thomas Scholarship Fund. We are delighted by their generosity—we hope you can come! PLEASE RSVP HERE!

We are thrilled to announce that the legendary PETE ESCOVEDO AND HIS LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA will be performing at Oxbow's Benefit Concert Saturday, May 12, 2018!!

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Please mark your calendar for Oxbow's first ever overnight alumni reunion on campus! We will invite all alumni semester classes to come spend Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3 including an overnighter on the 2nd on campus. We will have dorm rooms available, and you can also bring a tent or sleep under the stars.

For more details and to register for this alumni event please email Julie de Polo in our Development Office at jdepolo@oxbowschool.org.