11/06/15
Puls received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is represented in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the Jewish Museum in New York. Puls is a Professor of Art at the University of California at Davis. She lives in Berkeley, California.
11/06/15
Alison Wright, a New York-based documentary photographer, has spent a career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and writing. For many of her projects Alison travels to the remotest regions of the globe photographing endangered cultures and people while documenting issues concerning the human condition.
10/28/15
Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain has received over 70 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including being named by NPR as having delivered one of the Best Commencement Speeches, Ever, and by Newsweek as “one of the women shaping the 21st Century.”
10/28/15
Daniele Frazier is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Mill Valley, California, she graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2007, where she received the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust Award. Frazier was a student of Oxbow Fall 2001.
10/28/15
Hiroki Morinoue was born in Kealakekua, Hawaii. He received his BFA with high honor from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1973. Morinoue studied in Japan on two occasions: Sumi-e (Japanese Brush Painting) with Koh Ito Sensei in 1976 and Mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock Printmaking) with Takashi Okubo Sensei in 1973. Since then he has developed his own techniques and application of water-based printmaking that he has taught and shared with his students for the past 30 years.
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.
October 13 Tiffany Shlain
October 20 Hiroko Morinoue
November 3 Daniele Frazier
10/02/15
Friday, October 9th 11:00am - 3:00pm: Oxbow's annual Fall Portfolio Day is held on campus at 530 Third Street, Napa, CA. We welcome local teens, teachers, counselors, and alumni to attend. The following schools will participate:
Colleges: California College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, The Cooper Union, Cornish College of the Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, San Francisco Art Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
High Schools: Idyllwild Arts Academy
To attend: RSVP by email to admissions@oxbowschool.org. Be sure to include your first and last names, cell phone number, and the name of your high school in the emai.
All lectures are held on Tuesdays at The Theater (at former Copia), 500 1st Street, Napa CA. Lectures begin promptly at 7pm, are free and open to the public.
Leslie Shows February 24
Tucker Nichols March 10
Lordy Rodriguez March 24
William Binnie April 14
The Oxbow School has both a local and national reputation for excellence. Oxbow produces great artists. In its studio, these emerging artists have a community of creative peers who respect one another and foster an expectation to produce thoughtful, sophisticated work.
— Paul Coffey, Vice Provost and Dean of Community Engagement, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Oxbow opened me up to what was out there in the world to go out and grab, and gave me so much that I take with me everywhere I go, with everything I do.
— Nina Palomba, Spring 2008
Oxbow gave Will a voice and a community. Under the nurturing attention of his wonderful teachers, he learned that he had the intellectual capability to express himself and that his unique point of view was, in fact, an asset.
— David Becker, Parent
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