Up Next: OS41

Inside Oxbow

Up Next: OS41

08/24/19

We are so excited to welcome OS41 to campus and can't wait to see how they shape the school during their tenure! Check back fairly weekly (and on our Instagram daily!) for student-written updates on day to day life in and out of the studios and sneak peeks of class work, field trips, and an avalanche of art.

OS41 joins us at a dynamic time in our history, with a new Head of School, our former English Instructor and Academic Dean Jennifer Jordan, and two new faculty, Larissa Gilbert (OS27) for English, and Celeste Sazani for Maths. We are really enjoying getting to know our new teammates and can't wait to get classes started Monday!

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

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)

I learned to drop all previous assumptions I had about people because I had never met anyone like the other students at Oxbow. For the first time, my peers and their insightful thinking inspired me. For example, during the ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ presentations, I kept looking around the room thinking, I can’t believe all of these students are talking the way I think.

— Sara DeLong, Spring 2010

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