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Alice Orman Russo

10/15/14

Alice Orman Russo received her Masters in Education from Lehman College in New York in June 2013. She also married the same month, now has a son and teaches elementary school in Brooklyn, NY.

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Mitsuko Brooks

05/27/14

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Eating Cultures Exhibit

Mitsuko Brooks is in a group show Eating Cultures at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. The exhibit opens May 1 and runs through May 30, 2014. The opening reception is May 1 from 6-9pm, at 934 Brannan Street (between 8th & 9th) in San Francisco.

The exhibit features over thirty emerging and established Asian Pacific American artists from around the country, Eating Cultures is a deliciously provocative multi-disciplinary arts exhibition of artworks inspired by Asian American food and foodways. Using food as a lens, artists share stories of global migration, adaptation, entrepreneurship, and the central importance of food in Asian communities around the world.

Mitsuko is a 2014 Artist-in-Residence at The Wassaic Project in New York, a non-profit organization that exists to provide a genuine and intimate context for art making and strengthening local community by increasing social and cultural capital through inspiration, promotion and creation of contemporary visual and performing art.

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Mitsuko Brooks

08/29/12

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Mitsuko Brooks' solo exhibition "Dissonances of the Diaspora" at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island opened on August 4 and ran through September 16, 2012. She used the lush and beautiful setting of the Botanical Garden to create a series of photographs documenting the body immersed in landscape as if reclaimed by nature.

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Matt Santos

11/15/11

Matt Santos is finishing his 5th studio album called "Quickly Disappearing" largely inspired by the unfortunate environmental concern of the polar ice caps melting. The release date is December 16th followed by a long tour around the country in March and April of 2012. For more news and information go to www.matthewsantos.com.

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Kirstin Munro

07/29/10

Kirstin Munro is writing her PhD in economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago focusing on migrant labor and health outcomes (the same area she focused on for her final project at Oxbow).

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Evanne Cooperson

02/26/10

Evanne Cooperson is applying for her MA and a teaching credential in special education; she hopes to attend San Francisco State University.

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I want to thank you all for being so supportive and wonderful, thank you for running this incredible program. And half of my acceptance to RISD is because of Oxbow. (Especially thanks to Chris who wrote my letter of rec, to Jennifer who revised my essays, to the admissions team who helped me with my portfolio.

— Jeff Shen, Fall 2014

It's been a whirlwind week, but also a time when I sang the praises of Oxbow to my colleagues. I've been thinking much about how Oxbow is an exemplar of true education. That art centers the curriculum is hardly surprising, and for those of us who work within the traditional educational mold Oxbow offers a gold standard of focused project based learning. Beyond the school's approach to immersive experience are the intangibles which make Oxbow different. The sense of community and of working together, even as each student retained their strong individual presence is palpable. The feeling of warmth and trust between the adults and the nearly adults in the Oxbow community could be felt throughout the campus. The openness of the architecture and interconnectedness of the three studios in themselves speak of the Oxbow philosophy and identity. More than form follows function, the physical attributes of Oxbow have a distinct warmth and invite exploration.

I'm sure that the ongoing challenges of leading and reinventing your school might sometimes keep you from having the time to see Oxbow with the fresh eyes of a visitor, but your steady presence and vision are really visible in every detail. Thank you for inviting me to one of the most profound experiences in my career.

— Ken Rush, Visual Arts Department, Packer Collegiate Institute

The Oxbow School has both a local and national reputation for excellence. Oxbow produces great artists. In its studio, these emerging artists have a community of creative peers who respect one another and foster an expectation to produce thoughtful, sophisticated work.

— Paul Coffey, Vice Provost and Dean of Community Engagement, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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