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Signs for Change

06/08/20

Oxbow community members and alumni have been busy! Here is a short list of just some of the Oxbow community that are taking action and where you can find them:

  • OS15 Megan, @meganbroughtonartist: Prints. all proceeds to African American Policy Form (will cycle through prints and benefit a new organization each month)
  • OS20 Jason, @jasonedwardtucker: Single Edition Silver Gelatin Mordançage Prints and cyanotype handkerchiefs. All proceeds to Authority Collective and Black Visions Collective and The Okra Project
  • OS35 Meghan, @sneggymeg: shrinky dink earrings and lino prints. All proceeds to a Bailout Fund or other Black-run organization of your choice.
  • OS35 Simcha and housemate Maor: @5000ladybugs / @berrypit bakesalepdx@gmail.com: Portland, Oregon based bake sale offering a variety of baked goods delivered in Portland, OR. Hoping to expand to provide free hot meals for POC in Portland (especially Black and trans folks) who want or need them right now and pay-what-you-can meals for everybody else! Bake Sale proceeds go to a revolving group of organizations including Portland General Defense Committee's Bail Fund, Reclaim the Block, Black Visions Collective, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts' Black and Trans Protestor Emergency Fund, and Equitable Giving Circle's BIPOC CSA Fund.
  • OS35 Rachel, @Rachel.M.W: tshirts. All proceeds to Black Lives Matter Foundation
  • OS38 Leo, @le0fi: Prints. All proceeds to The Okra Project
  • OS38 Sophia, @sophiagnunez: Prints. All proceeds to Black Visions Collective
  • OS38 Zoë, @zcasdin: Photographs. All proceeds to Black Trans Emergency Fund and Free them All for Public Health
  • OS39 Eli: commissions @eli.makes.art choose between: Black Lives Matter, The American Civil Liberties (ACLU), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, George Floyd Memorial Fund, Minnesota Freedom Fund, Reclaim The Block, National Bail Out, Bail Project, Black Visions Collective, Campaign Zero, National Bail Fund Network, The innocent Project, Run With Maud, Justice For Breonna, Anti Police-Terror Project, Community Ready Corps. Along with this, Eli is working on creating an artist collective called "Artists to Action" where the main focus is selling art to raise money for the BLM movement. The handle for the collective is @artists_to_action and the collective will be live soon. Artists in the collective are: Colleen Ryan OS39 , Phoebe Dubisch OS39, Maya Callaway OS39, Quinn Jonas OS39, and Katya Pellerin.
  • OS40 Brie, @wrathcock: Poetry book, "Overripe." All proceeds to The Bail Project
  • OS40 Jill, @jillnoorily: Paintings, drawings, prints. All proceeds to The Color of Change, Black Trans Travel Fund, Know Your Rights Camp, Innocence Project, COVID Bail Out NYC and Black Lives Matter
  • OS42 Bille, @billiewynn: Portraits. All proceeds to The Justice For Breonna Taylor Fund and The Black Visions Collective Organization
  • OS42 Ruby, @rj4g3l: Cyanotype tshirts. All proceeds to Black Visions Collective
  • OS42 Sophia: check @sophiajacobss for details
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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

In the year leading up to Oxbow, I became obsessed with the program, I was entranced with reading testimonials and researching interdisciplinary learning styles. When I arrived at Oxbow I was never disappointed, despite my endless expectations. I will forever cherish the time I spent at Oxbow and the connections I made there. Through Oxbow I was able to hone into the ideas I was thinking about, to refine my artistic process and to see the world in a new light every day of my life. I'm not going to say that without Oxbow I wouldn't be the person I am today, but I will say that without Oxbow it would have taken me at least four years to become who I am after one Oxbow semester.

— Phoebe Dubisch, Fall 2018

Oxbow gave Will a voice and a community. Under the nurturing attention of his wonderful teachers, he learned that he had the intellectual capability to express himself and that his unique point of view was, in fact, an asset.

— David Becker, Parent

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