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Visiting Artist Lectures

Brendan Sullivan

09/15/17

Please join us for a lecture with Oxbow Alumni artist Brendan Sullivan (OS4).

Date: Saturday, November 11, 2017 Time is TBA
Location: TBA

Artist Biography:

Brendan Sullivan is an artist and designer currently studying medicine at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prior to medical school Brendan worked with MASS Design Group in Boston as a Design Associate and Design-Research Associate. Brendan’s design work was focused around a collaborative installation that aimed to draw attention to the current state of the American criminal justice system and give voice to the millions of incarcerated individuals within that system. His research on the other hand delved into the effects of architectural design on clinical outcomes in childbirth. In this role he collaborated with a team of architects and medical/public health professionals. Before working with MASS Design, Brendan spent three years at Gehry Technologies where he consulted on such projects as the Broad Museum in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

Brendan holds a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design––a background that Brendan believes will serve him well as a future physician or surgeon. As the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh said, surgery is a craft that is fifty percent visual and fifty percent tactile.

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

Hey guys! OS33 alumni here! I received a full ride to California College of the Arts and just wanted to tell you guys that if it wasn't for the Oxbow experience and the great faculty who saw the potential in me I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did. I am still waiting for other colleges at the moment but I think this might be the school I will attend this fall!

— Keily Maldonado , 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

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