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AROUND THE BEND
- Stephen Thomas, Director and Head of School ALUMNI NEWS OS1 Lenora Ditzler is in India traveling in Dharamsala, enjoying time with the Tibetans. She also hopes to go to Nepal and will be adventuring through May, if not longer. Nick Ray is married with a 2 year-old son and a jewelry design business on Nantucket Island, MA OS2 Matt Santos' music career is definitely ON! and he was mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine for his work with Lupe Fiasco. OS4 Case Conover continues as this year's Oxbow Intern (he is battle tested now!). Emily Grau helped out with the Butterfield/Buck event in San Francisco, and is sacrificing her body/mind to science at UC Davis. Caroline Woolard has been working as a Junior Research Scholar for Natalie Jeremijenko at NYU where she developed prototypes for her Subway Swing with Stefan Sagmeister for a book he is designing; spent the summer as a fellow at the Ox-Bow residency (run through the Art Institute of Chicago) in MI, where she began collaborating with artist, Elizabeth Tubergen; participated in Conflux NY, Un.Occupied Spaces in Montreal, and Come Sit With Us Because We Miss You at SolarOne in NY. See Caroline's recent projects at http://CarolineWoolard.blogspot.com and at http://6FootCollaboratory.blogspot.com OS6 Theresa Kneppers is living in Paris. She completed her degree in December. Her undergraduate thesis topic was Contemporary Collecting. Piero Spadaro - December 2007 Treasures at Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco; represented by Art Gotham Gallery, New York. His work was featured in the Red Dot Art Fair. www.pspadaro.com OS7 Amanda Profitt has been spotted working the ice cream stand at the newly opened Oxbow Market, making money for college. OS8
Emily Proud (pictured above) will graduate from UCLA this spring. Over the summer she was in various towns of Umbria, Italy painting with a UC Davis group. She spent the fall semester at the American University of Paris learning French. Last spring Emily had her first independent Art Show in the UCLA undergraduate gallery, a series of figurative watercolors. OS9 Rose Thomas is living in Brooklyn working in the rag trade and dreaming of travel. Cody Sai is also working in fashion and living in NYC. Lillian Myers has reluctantly returned from New Zealand. Sylvie Calierno is on an extended tour of South America, mainly Argentina to work on her Spanish. There are rumors that Georgia Carter is still at Califonria College of the Arts (CCA). OS10 Ingrid Burrington mutters about a year abroad but is still in Baltimore at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Sam Keller is attending Rhode Island School of Design. OS11 Marilyn Beck is in Portland at art school. Alex (Z) Groshong in art school at MICA. OS12 Lauryn Hill and Yennika Ekstrand were spotted at CCA where they are being in art school. OS13 You can see Rachel Appel's work at: www.rachelappel.org Naomi Binzen spent her freshman college year with LeapNow in India and Guatemala. She is now a sophmore at Prescott College. Rachael Browning is attending Cooper Union. Hunter Doyle is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ramona Magsaysay is a sophmore at Parsons studying fashion. Amelia Sechman is in her second year at CCA studying painting, photography (medium format and mural printing) and screen printing. Click here to see Ameilia's work. OS14 Whitney Vangrin is attending Parson's New School for Design. OS15 Raoul Anchondo is attending Cooper Union. Acacia Anglin's work featured in Sitka Sentinel, October 2007. Simone Salvo Foreign Findings at the Gelb Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, January 5-31, 2008. OS16 Michelle Check's final project film Other Worlds was screened at the Tower of Youth Film Festival, October 2007. Peter Linden will be attending Pratt Institute this fall on a Presidential Merit Scholarship. OS17 Natalie Ebaugh's Figuring the Body project won the gold key award in the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. Emma Harmon will be attending the San Francisco Art Institute on a SFAI Partnership Scholarship. Oxbow Alumni we want to hear from you! Send us your news for the next issue of Oxtales. Reception for Visiting Artists Deborah Butterfield and John Buck
Oxbow friends and trustees gathered at Betty and Jack Schafer's San Francisco home in November to toast Deborah and John who had just completed their 10-day visiting artist residency. THE ANNUAL FUND
The Annual Fund supports the program beyond the limits of tuition revenue and allows us to provide our students with authentic exposure to artistic problem solving and intellectual inquiry. Program elements such as the Visiting Artists residency, studio and museum visits, and a nutritious, organic meal plan, help to grow each student's awareness of the possibilities in their lives.
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CALENDAR + EVENTS Spring 2008 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented in partnership with Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts. Copia
Auditorium, 500 First Street Napa, CA, Monday,
February 18
Monday,
February 25 Monday,
March 10 Monday,
March 17 Monday,
March 31 Monday,
April 14 Spring
Open House Fiesta Oxbow! Fiesta Alice! Save
the Date
The annual benefit to support the Oxbow School Scholarship Fund. A Riverside Mexican Fiesta at The Oxbow School in honor of Alice Waters. Live auction featuring work by: John Buck, Deborah Butterfield, Catherine McCarthy and more. (see a preview of Deborah's piece below)
Manzanita,
2007
For more information call 707-252-5427 or e-mail phoebe@oxbowschool.org NEWS + NOTES Thank you Dosa!
OS17 ended on a high note, and on the Sunday of the Final Show weekend, we added a new element for the ‘fashionistas’ in the Oxbow family: a benefit sale by Christina Kim’s DOSA fashion line brought new people to the school and raised $14,000 for Oxbow. Thanks to all of you who attended and bought yourselves something nice or found the perfect gift. Admissions
We are wrapping up an
exciting recruiting season in the Oxbow Admissions Office. Our Admissions
Associates spend much of their time out on the road, telling students
about Oxbow's unique program. This school year, Megan Malone traveled
to Seattle, Portland, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and to
many schools around the Bay Area. Jordan Felling ventured to Chicago,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee, Vermont, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York City. Employment Opportunities Internship
Position - 2008-09 Academic Year Summer
Studio Workshops June 13 - 22, 2008 Register early as space is limited. Download a brochure and registration form. Summer Camp
Sessions are filling fast! We are 25% ahead of enrollments for this same time last year. For more information or to register on-line visit www.NoLanyardsCamp.org. Registrations are currently being taken by mail, fax and phone. Click this link to go to the downloads page on the summer site.
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Friends—OS18
is in the house (!) and we find ourselves, here in the middle of the
Oxbow’s ninth year, at a high point in the school’s history.
While we still rely on your annual fund contributions as the major
element in our fundraising effort, we find ourselves ahead of last
year’s pace and are hopeful of reaching our goal—keep
those donations coming in! Enrollment for next year is strong: we
already have 50 applicants for fall 2008 and expect that after our
March 1st application deadline we can be really selective
and invite a strong group of students for OS19. And the excitement
is building for our May 31st benefit—a fiesta
on the riverbank honoring Alice Waters.
Trustee
Jack Shafer and his wife Betty with visiting artists Deborah Butterfield
and John Buck in front of Halo. (photo: John McJunkin) 
Leonard
Shlain at Copia (Photo: Ashley Teplin)
