Summer Camp

09/19/14

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Campers from New Orleans, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Brooklyn, and Paris lived an art life with
native California campers at Oxbow this summer.

In our Fundamentals classes, campers explored a dynamic range of themes and techniques such as Cute vs Creepy, Elevating the Mundane, Animal Identities, Blind Fold Tour Mapping, and completed a Cardboard Shoe Challenge!

Along with our campfire rituals, our Co-Curricular Program featured a Summer Art Olympics, Surrealist Night, Alter Ego Fashion Show, and Inspiration Nights. Campers also developed new skills in our afternoon arts workshop series, participating in Indian Fold Dancing, Boxing, Yoga, Bookbinding, And Cyanotypes (just to name a few)!

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During the 2nd half of camp, students devoted their studio time to Final Projects. Honing in on personally relevant subject matter and taking risks, campers' projects were remarkably thought provoking. These can be viewed on our Facebook page (along with images of day-to-day camp life).

Registration for our 2015 program will open in mid-October. Additional program information can be found under the Summer Camp tab on the school website at www.oxbowschool.org. Please contact summercamp@oxbowschool.org or call 707.592.6295 with inquiries.

I look forward to next summer!
Susan Lynn Smith
Summer Camp Director

If at any point Oxbow doubts the good it does, I just want to reassure you all that you’re changing the lives of young artists every semester.

— Colin Davis, Fall 2009

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

Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.

— John Powley, Parent

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