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Visiting Artist Lectures

Adia Millett

09/01/22

Please join us for a lecture with artist Adia Millett.

Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 7:30 — 8:30 PM
Location: Via Zoom, please contact info@oxbowschool.org for viewing opportunities.

Adia Millett, originally from Los Angeles, received her BFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts. Millett has exhibited at prominent institutions both nationally and internationally. Her work is currently on view through October 30, 2022, at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, CA.

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

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)

Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.

— John Powley, Parent

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