Phillip built his own darkroom from scratch in high-school out of scavenged photography equipment. He graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 2004, where he participated in the ArtQuest Program along with Amy, Miles, and many other Oxbow counselors. He has extensive knowledge of photography, both digital and print. He is skilled with Photoshop and computers in general. His photography has been exhibited in the Santa Rosa Symphony, and has taken many prizes in various judged exhibitions throughout Sonoma County. He's also really into screen printing, entomology, manual typewriter repair, arc welding, pneumatics, hydroelectrics, and cephlapods.

Frankly, Maxwell Fletcher has gotten to the point where he builds his year around Oxbow, and this will be his fourth inhabitation of the oxbubble. His particular brand of expertise (in the realm of motion picture creation and consumption) comes from many years in the trenches of film school, specifically the University of Southern California where he graduated in 2006. Academy Award winning professionals imparted upon him years of industry knowledge, which he ate like a fine pastry, particularly the portion of the pastry which related to screen writing. After two years as the resident oxbow film practitioner, Maxwell has spent the past year furthering his professorial prowess by tutoring kids through 826 Valencia and helping teach a video podcast class to local middle schoolers. He is currently operating under the guise of Filmmaker Liaison for the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival, performing the role of an educational conduit between successful filmmakers and Bay Area schools. Beyond film, Max is a fervent appreciator of all things creative, spontaneous, random, and artistic. He also enjoys writing biographies about himself in the third person.

Xochi Lubin comes from West Sonoma County, California. She graduated from the Santa Rosa High School ArtQuest program in 2006 where she studied modern dance, visual fine arts and photography as well as had the opportunity to attend a semester at the Oxbow school. Since then she has traveled and volunteered in northern India, Chiapas, Mexico and Spain. She currently is living in Santa Cruz amongst the endless trees and sparkling ocean and attending Cabrillo College. She has most recently picked up a love for cultural anthropology, Gaudi's architecture, cooking, flea markets and felting. This will be her second summer as a counselor at the Oxbow camp and in between art making she hopes to have many dance parties and yoga sessions.

Sarah Henson is currently a senior working on a B.A. in Art at Cornell College. Prior to her first fantastic year at Oxbow, she spent her summers working on small organic farms in the mountains of North Carolina as well as a Quaker camp for 7-12 year-olds that emphasizes peaceful conflict-resolution. This work showed her the value of manual labor and gave her experience leading varied group activities in a stunning wilderness. For her, art-making is in many ways analogous to the manual labor of farm-work, and she knows that these experiences helped shape the direction of her current art. Her latest work, which began with intense interdisciplinary research, employs letterpress with large-scale handmade paper, as well as the growth of native prairie grass, which she used to bind handmade sheets of paper into living books. This past year of studio practice has given her the physical engagement she seeks while allowing her to continue the never-ending indulgence of a robust curiosity. For the past two years, she has worked in her college’s writing studio to help out fellow students with their papers, during which time she has become certified as a peer consultant and in ESL. She spent two months of this school year studying Spanish in Guatemala, where she learned traditional back-strap weaving and played a weekly music gig in a local restaurant. Aside from making art, writing, and being outdoors, Sarah loves to sing and play banjo and guitar and is always learning about the exciting music out there!.