May 12, 2:00 - 5:00pm
May 13, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Oxbow Studios, 530 Third Street, Napa
Tours will be offered and information will be available about the Semester and Summer programs at Oxbow!
Alake Shilling
01/30/18
Please join jus for a lecture with Oxbow Alumni Artist Alake Shilling (OS22).
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Alake Shilling's bubblegum pop aesthetic and curious storytelling fuse to create dynamic ceramics and canvases of otherworldly abstraction and intrigue. Wrought with dark humor and stupefying detail, she guides her viewer through naturalistic scenes of cartoonish wild fauna and other symbols. With an aimless quality of expansion, she elicits a sense of longing in her work - for the crevices in our minds still unbound by adulthood. Her process starts by building up texture on a surface and then by pouring paints and other materials in select areas. She then inserts images into the remaining space, bringing the canvas to life. Shilling is an artist living and working in Los Angeles.
Kathleen Henderson
01/30/18
Please join us for a lecture with artist Kathleen Henderson.
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Bay Area.
Oscillating between fascination and apprehension Henderson’s work illuminates our struggle to make sense of a senseless world with an expansive body of work that includes drawing, painting, and sculpture.
Henderson’s work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in LA, and San Francisco as well as the Drawing Center in New York. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is currently a facilitator at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA and senior editor at the Creative Growth magazine.
Linda Connor
01/30/18
Please join us for a lecture with artist Linda Connor.
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography, and has traveled extensively nationally and internationally to produce her work to places such as India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, South East Asia, as well as the United States. Using the tools reminiscent of 19th century landscape photography, she creates images that reflect the poetry and mystery of the places. Her photographs contemplate the relationship of the sacred to the natural world. Since the late 1960’s, she has been teaching in the photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as exhibiting and publishing her work. In 2002, she founded PhotoAlliance, a San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding, appreciation and creation of contemporary photography. Amongst other awards, Connor is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her work can be found in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Alberta Museum in London.
Lewis deSoto
01/30/18
Please join us for a lecture with artist Lewis deSoto.
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Lewis deSoto (Cahuilla) is a contemporary artist based in Napa and Los Angeles. His work takes many forms, elaborate installations, photographs, writing projects, sculpture and media works. His book, “Empire,” about San Bernardino and Riverside counties was released one year ago. He has produced a series of installation works based on Native American themes since 1990 and will use the evening to document and comment on the development of these works. His installations incorporate architecture, sculpture, sound as well as historical documents and narratives. He is a professor of art at San Francisco State University.
Harrell Fletcher
01/30/18
Please join us for a lecture with artist Harrell Fletcher.
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:00 — 8:30 PM
Location: The Oxbow School-Dining Hall, 530 Third Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography:
Harrell Fletcher received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the California College of the Arts. He studied organic farming at UCSC and went on to work on a variety of small Community Supported Agriculture farms, which impacted his work as an artist. Fletcher has produced a wide variety of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects since the early 1990’s.
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.
Larry Thomas
09/14/17
DUE TO THE NAPA/SONOMA COUNTY FIRES THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED.
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography:
Larry Thomas – Larry Thomas’s work is represented in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the S.F. Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. as well as numerous public and private collections. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award, has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally. His work is represented in the permanent collections of artist’s books at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houghton Library at Harvard University among others. Additionally, he has been in residence as a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, a resident artist at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Due to the Napa fires the California College of the Arts has graciously offered to host Oxbow's annual Fall Portfolio Day.
Date: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA
We welcome local teens, teachers, counselors, and alumni to attend. For more information contact the Admissions Office at admissions@oxbowschool.org. The following schools will participate:
Colleges:
Bennington College
California College of the Arts (CCA)
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
College for Creative Studies (CCS)
Cornish College of the Arts
Drexel University | Westphal College of Media Arts & DesignKansas City Art Institute (KCAI)
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SFMA/Tufts)
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
The New School | Parsons School of Design
University of Michigan | Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
University of the Arts London (UAL)
High Schools:
Idyllwild Arts Academy
To attend: RSVP by email to admissions@oxbowschool.org. Be sure to include your first and last names, cell phone number, and the name of your high school in the emai.
Gay Outlaw
09/13/17
DUE TO THE NAPA/SONOMA COUNTY FIRES THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED.
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater , 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography:
Gay Outlaw – In a career of over 25 years Gay Outlaw has examined relationships of sculpture and picture-making, especially photography. She interweaves formal abstraction with 2-D techniques of illusions, opening up possibilities within traditions of artistic production. While respectful of traditional processes—her practice includes educating herself in lesser-known techniques—the artist delights in subverting the expected result. Outlaw’s work has been shown nationally with exhibitions at the Sculpture Center in New York; the University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach; Mills College; the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and San Francisco MOMA, where she received the SECA Award. Her artworks are in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, SFMOMA and the Berkeley Art Museum.
