Faculty and Staff

Fall 2013/Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant Megan Broughton

09/25/13

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Megan

As an alumna of OS15, I'm happy to be back on the river! I obtained a BFA from CalArts where I focused on painting, printmaking, sound, text, and public arts programs. My work with CalArts' Community Arts Partnership and co-founding, site-coordinating, and teaching with Nomad Lab was life changing and further convinced me of the power of arts education. Returning to Oxbow seemed like a perfect way of synthesizing these experiences and giving back to a community that shaped me so much as a teenager. Over the past month alone, rotating through the studios and observing the academic classes has been such an informative experience and I'm grateful for this huge opportunity to work with all of Oxbow's phenomenal teachers and students.

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

Advice I would give to future students is to just do it and come to Oxbow and not overthink it because it will most likely (99.9%) be the best decision you have made in your life.

— Malachi Snyder, Spring 2018

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)

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