Due to the Napa County Declaration of a Public Health Emergency over Coronavirus the residency with Jodie Mack has been cancelled.
01/31/20
Due to the Napa County Declaration of a Public Health Emergency over Coronavirus the residency with Jodie Mack has been cancelled.
01/31/20
Artist Eric Veit (OS10) will be joining our faculty for Spring 2020 to work with students on projects.
Artist Biography
Eric Veit’s work deals with abstract principles such as the organization of information, relationships between human nature and non-human nature, cognition and categorization, fiction as opposed to truth, and the passage of time.
08/28/19
Artist Anneli Henriksson (OS19) will be joining our faculty for Fall 2019 to work with students on projects.
Artist Biography
Using a sardonic approach to exploring existentialism, Anneli Sanaye Henriksson's work engages with countercultural production of the recent past in order to examine an aesthetic manifestation of melancholia. She creates spaces that reflect ritualistic or symbolic attempts to resist the power of bourgeois hegemony. Through self-publishing, drawings, comics, garments and textiles, she challenges perceived boundaries between object, action, and place.
08/28/19
Artist Robin Hill will be joining our faculty for Fall 2019 to work with students on projects.
Artist Biography
Robin Hill is an artist whose work focuses on the intersection between drawing, photography, and sculpture. Her recent work takes on a collaborative sensibility, where objects and materials which have been rejected by others have served as starting points for acts of transformation.
02/13/19
Artist Judith Belzer will be joining our faculty for Spring 2019 to work with students on projects.
Artist Biography
Judith Belzer is an artist who lives and works in Berkeley, California. Using primarily oil paint on canvas, she explores human engagement with the natural world, often looking to the man-made landscape in order to consider this dynamic and sometimes fraught relationship.
02/12/19
Artist Natan Daskal will be joining our faculty for Spring 2019 to work with students on projects.
Artist Biography
When does Life become Art? Natan's interest lies in the performance of everyday life and how the artist mind and creative experience can aid us in living better lives. Primarily an educator, Natan is Teacher-As-Artist, approaching the classroom/studio as a laboratory of living, co-creating experiences with students that aim to deepen awareness and to open new possibilities for personal and worldwide change.
10/15/18
Artist James Sansing will be joining our faculty for Fall 2018 to work with students on projects.
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.
09/17/18
Artist Rebecca Manson will be joining our faculty for Fall 2018 to work with students on projects.
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.
02/10/18
Artist Kathleen Henderson will be joining our faculty for Spring 2018 to work with students on projects.
Artist Biography
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.
02/09/18
Artist Harrell Fletcher will be joining our faculty for Spring 2018 to work with students on projects.
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.
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)
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
Oxbow was, without a doubt, the best part of my high school experience. A year after leaving, and I still feel as though it were yesterday that I was sitting on the lawn, eating in the dining hall, and laughing with my friends in the studios.
— Julia Weir, Fall 2015
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