On behalf of the Oxbow Board of Trustees and our Faculty and Staff, we are thrilled to announce the appointment of Jennifer Jordan to the role of Oxbow Head of School. After thirteen years with the school as an English teacher and Academic Dean, and five months of great work serving as Interim Head of School, the Board unanimously voted to elect Jennifer into this role.

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The Oxbow Benefit Dinner at Hudson Ranch winery on Saturday, May 11 was an enormous success - we raised over $100,000 for student scholarships! We'd like to extend a giant THANK YOU to all of you who volunteered, attended, and donated -- such huge efforts to make this evening so special. The vibe was fun, intimate and elegant...we couldn't have hoped for better (the beaming sunshine in Carneros was an additional gift!) Our benefit event could not have happened without the generous support of Lee & Cristina Hudson of Hudson Ranch winery, Curtis diFede of Miminashi restaurant, Liam & Diana Callahan of Bellwether Farms, Trustee Robert Sinskey of Robert Sinskey Vineyards, Llisa Demetrios of Eames Office, local neon artist Meryl Pataky, and all of our wonderful sponsors. In addition, we have many individuals and wineries who donated for our online and silent auctions, for which we are grateful. We are truly humbled to have such loyal support for our school - all of you made our weekend absolutely delightful. And lastly, to Jordan Felling and her Pollinate Brand team, for an amazing job of event production. Oxbow thanks you all!

Oxbow Alumni Phoebe Dubisch has been accepted for mentorship in Medical Illustration with Barrow Neurological Institute for the month of June. She will also attend the Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics in July 2019.

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Napa students rallied for climate change action on March 15. The event was featured in the Napa Register article Climate Matters: Youth Speak out on Climate Change by reporter Chris Benz in the April 7, 2019 issue.

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Caroline Woolard was selected by Moore College of Art & Design as the first recipient of the Jane and David Walentas Endowed Fellowship. The prestigious annual fellowship underscores Moore’s ongoing commitment to social engagement by offering opportunities to thoughtful artists who bring their vision for the future of cultural production to the Moore community and the larger artistic community of Philadelphia.

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Remember how much the community enjoyed seeing the results of your semester at your Final Show? This year we would like to showcase ALUMNI ART during our final show weekend as well!

This spring, for the first time ever, Oxbow is hosting its annual fundraiser the evening of OS36's Final Show on Saturday, May 13th, 2017. What could be better than checking out student art by day, and then venturing over to The CIA at Copia nearby for Oxbow's Benefit Concert where we will display and sell ALUMNI ART!

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For the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts OS4 Caroline Woolard will deliver a keynote about the future of the arts in the United States. Caroline was an alumni lecturer OS34 and returned in OS35 as our first alumni Visiting Artist in Residence.  carolinewoolard.com

Thorson will present recent sculptural works in "Uncanny," a two-person exhibition at Des Lee Gallery at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Uncanny opens February 26, 2016. Watch for more information on the Des Lee Gallery Blog.

Chris Thorson is Oxbow's Painting faculty and you can see more of her work at christhorsonstudio.com

Pattiann Koury had two pieces screened in recent film festivals. The video Nothing to Celebrate was screened at the 2015 Strange Beauty Film Festival in Durham, NC in late October. The short film, Speed was screened at the 2015 Athens International Film Festival in Athens, OH in April. This is the second film she has had screened in this festival, the first was Ms. Irmie's Curse in 2014. In December, Speed will also be screened in Porto, Portugal at part of the Family Film Project Film Festival.

Pattiann is Oxbow's New Media Faculty. See more of Pattiann's work.

I'm incredibly excited to rejoin my peers at Oxbow since my time in OS20. After leaving Napa, I attended the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC and graduated in 2013 with a BFA in Fine Art Photography. Throughout school I worked part-time at Morton Fine Art as a graphic designer and sales associate. Somewhat simultaneously, I was hired at Duhon Photography as a studio manager and photographer, and worked directly with the owner and lead photographer for 6 years.

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