Nina Palomba is in her junior year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is embarking on the journey of arts education and is in the midst of studying for the exam to enter into the department and plans on graduating with a BFAAE. She wants to work with non profits around Chicago that focus on after school art programs for high school students, and teaching them basic concepts of the adobe suite and how to use that in t-shirt and skateboard design. She is releasing her fall/winter collection with Allegiance Skateboard, the entire site is about to undergo a drastic switch to involve much more of the community! Anyone involved will be able to login and post what inspires them, what they have been making, etc. She meets new people nearly everyday through Allegiance, and it has truly been a remarkable journey so far, all from the love of art and skateboarding!
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
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
At Oxbow, I got to try inquiry-based learning for the first time. This allowed me to control the amount of rigor and the depth of research in my topic, as well as picking a topic that I found most interesting. From going through this new process of learning, I feel excited to go back to the rigor of my sending school to apply the inquiry-based perspective to my classes.
— Meave Cunningham, Fall, 2015
A School Like No Other