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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Please join jus for a lecture with Oxbow Alumni Artist Alake Shilling (OS22).

Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Alake Shilling's bubblegum pop aesthetic and curious storytelling fuse to create dynamic ceramics and canvases of otherworldly abstraction and intrigue. Wrought with dark humor and stupefying detail, she guides her viewer through naturalistic scenes of cartoonish wild fauna and other symbols. With an aimless quality of expansion, she elicits a sense of longing in her work - for the crevices in our minds still unbound by adulthood. Her process starts by building up texture on a surface and then by pouring paints and other materials in select areas. She then inserts images into the remaining space, bringing the canvas to life. Shilling is an artist living and working in Los Angeles.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Kathleen Henderson.

Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Bay Area.

Oscillating between fascination and apprehension Henderson’s work illuminates our struggle to make sense of a senseless world with an expansive body of work that includes drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Henderson’s work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in LA, and San Francisco as well as the Drawing Center in New York. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is currently a facilitator at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA and senior editor at the Creative Growth magazine.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Linda Connor.

Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography, and has traveled extensively nationally and internationally to produce her work to places such as India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, South East Asia, as well as the United States. Using the tools reminiscent of 19th century landscape photography, she creates images that reflect the poetry and mystery of the places. Her photographs contemplate the relationship of the sacred to the natural world. Since the late 1960’s, she has been teaching in the photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as exhibiting and publishing her work. In 2002, she founded PhotoAlliance, a San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding, appreciation and creation of contemporary photography. Amongst other awards, Connor is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her work can be found in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Alberta Museum in London.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Lewis deSoto.

Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Lewis deSoto (Cahuilla) is a contemporary artist based in Napa and Los Angeles. His work takes many forms, elaborate installations, photographs, writing projects, sculpture and media works. His book, “Empire,” about San Bernardino and Riverside counties was released one year ago. He has produced a series of installation works based on Native American themes since 1990 and will use the evening to document and comment on the development of these works. His installations incorporate architecture, sculpture, sound as well as historical documents and narratives. He is a professor of art at San Francisco State University.

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Please join us for a lecture with artist Harrell Fletcher.

Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The Oxbow School-Dining Hall, 530 Third Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography:

Harrell Fletcher received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the California College of the Arts. He studied organic farming at UCSC and went on to work on a variety of small Community Supported Agriculture farms, which impacted his work as an artist. Fletcher has produced a wide variety of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects since the early 1990’s.

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Please join us for a lecture with Oxbow Alumni artist Brendan Sullivan (OS4).

Date: Saturday, November 11, 2017 Time is TBA
Location: TBA

Artist Biography:

Brendan Sullivan is an artist and designer currently studying medicine at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prior to medical school Brendan worked with MASS Design Group in Boston as a Design Associate and Design-Research Associate. Brendan’s design work was focused around a collaborative installation that aimed to draw attention to the current state of the American criminal justice system and give voice to the millions of incarcerated individuals within that system.

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DUE TO THE NAPA/SONOMA COUNTY FIRES THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED.

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography:

Larry Thomas – Larry Thomas’s work is represented in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the S.F. Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. as well as numerous public and private collections. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award, has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally. His work is represented in the permanent collections of artist’s books at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houghton Library at Harvard University among others. Additionally, he has been in residence as a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, a resident artist at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology

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