Casey Gollan OS17 comes full-circle returning as Oxbow's Alumni Visiting Artist Lecturer.

Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Napa Valley Vintners Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA (note this is the same night as the film festival so park in the lot across the street)

Along with collaborator Victoria Sobel, he is currently a 2015–17 Fellow at The New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and a Fall 2016 visiting artist at The Cooper Union School of Art.

In the face of the banality of corporate restructuring, Sobel and Gollan LARP a means of building culture that is activated, distributed, and durational. Addressing the incisive mission-creep of cultural institutions, they entertain both the inevitability of financialization, as well as the interminable possibility of resituating systems. Their recent projects include print and digital publications, a construction-themed Block Party, and a month-long community residency. Their ongoing research investigates the broad entanglement of culture, education, and finance with subjects such as the cloud, artificial intelligences, and poetics.

Gollan’s design practice — considering the intermediation of technology and everyday life — is based out of Orbital. He has written critically about design and technology for Rhizome and Poool, participated in Triple Canopy’s networked publishing intensive, and experimented with open-source administration as part of the School for Poetic Computation. Recent work includes an ongoing collaboration with design researcher Sara Hendren, director of the Adaptation + Ability Group at Olin College. Their project Engineering at Home will be included in an exhibition on the future of design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2017.

caseygollan.com

Please join us for a lecture with artist Caroline Woolard.

Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Caroline Woolard makes art and infrastructures for the solidarity economy. Her method enjoins objects to their
contexts of circulation. Woolard builds sculptures for barter only as she also creates international barter networks that continue to grow; she fabricates model Shaker housing and she also convenes organizers of community land trusts.

OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop from 2008-2014, Woolard's organizing work is now focused on BFAMFAPhD.com, a collective she founded that uses both data and installation art to advocate for cultural equity, and the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative that exists to create and support truly affordable commercial space in New York City. While making infrastructure, Woolard furnishes gathering spaces with objects that are as imaginative as the conversations that occur in those spaces.

Caroline Woolard’s work has been supported by residencies and fellowships at MoMA, the Queens Museum, the Judson Church, the Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund, Eyebeam, the MacDowell Colony, and by unemployment benefits, the curiosity of strangers, her partner, and many collaborators. Recent group exhibitions include: Crossing Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Maker Biennial, The Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; and Artist as Social Agent, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Woolard’s work will be featured in Art21’s New York Close Up documentary series over the next three years. Woolard is a lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and the New School, a project manager at the worker-owned design firm CoLab.coop, and is a member of the Community Economies Research Network and the board of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics.

Caroline Woolard’s artist statement is here. For more information, click on WORK, go to an upcoming EVENT, or read some WRITING. You can also listen to a talk, search flickr and the news, or sign up for the mailing list.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Carter Mull.

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Carter Mull (born 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American artist working in Los Angeles. Mull took his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2006. He creates pictures through a process of rephotographing and altering existing images.

Mull’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Presentation House, Vancouver, Domaine Departement de Chamarande, Paris, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles and Gagosian Gallery, New York. His project intertwines multiple mediums to question the media that constructs our conception of the world. In turn, the practice recomposes an understanding of our shared, social imagination.

His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Getty Research Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His practice has been discussed in publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Art on Paper, Art In America, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Evan Nesbit.

Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Evan Nesbit received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 2009 and MFA from Yale University in 2012. Nesbit received the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize, Yale University in 2012. Nesbit is an internationally known artist with solo and group exhibitions at Roberts & Tildon, Los Angeles, Eleven Rivington, New York, James Harris Gallery, New York, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, Portmanteau, Geneva, Switzerland, and Motus Fort Gallery, Tokyo, Japan among many others.

evannesbit.com

Please join us for a lecture with artist Tucker Nicholst.

Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Tucker Nichols is an artist based in Northern California. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

His drawings have been published in McSweeney's, The Thing Quarterly, Nieves Books and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. He is co-author of the books, Crabtree and This Bridge Will Not Be Gray.

He is represented by ZieherSmith in New York and Gallery 16 in San Francisco.

All lectures are held on Tuesdays at The CIA in the theater at the former Copia, 500 1st Street, Napa CA. Lectures begin promptly at 7pm and are free and open to the public.

March 15 Alice Shaw
March 22 Robert Kushner
April 12 Caroline Woolard

Please join us on Saturday, April 16th for a spring dinner to celebrate Margrit Mondavi and over 40 years of showing artists in the Vineyard Room at the Robert Mondavi Winery. A benefit for The Oxbow School Scholarship Fund.

Click here for Tickets and Information!

Save the Date for April 26th - details to follow!

All lectures are held on Tuesdays, promptly at 7pm, are free and open to the public. Lectures will be held on campus at The Oxbow School dining hall, 530 Third Street in Napa.

February 23 Clare Rojas
March 8 Richard T. Walker
March 15 Alice Shaw
March 22 Robert Kushner
April 12 Caroline Woolard