DeYoung Day

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DeYoung Day

03/06/16

OS34 experienced two Oxbow traditions on Thursday, visiting the DeYoung Museum and afterward strolling across the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum's permanent collection offered the usual discoveries and excitement as the students studied many beloved works in person for the first time. Oxbow shared the space with a group of elementary school art students as well, and enjoyed the correlations between themselves and the younger children, later reflecting how grateful they were to witness arts education fostered so early on.

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photos by Will M, Gracie R, Ella S, Sabrina C, Kat L

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 opened me up to what was out there in the world to go out and grab, and gave me so much that I take with me everywhere I go, with everything I do.

— Nina Palomba, Spring 2008

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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