Nina Palomba is in her junior year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is embarking on the journey of arts education and is in the midst of studying for the exam to enter into the department and plans on graduating with a BFAAE. She wants to work with non profits around Chicago that focus on after school art programs for high school students, and teaching them basic concepts of the adobe suite and how to use that in t-shirt and skateboard design. She is releasing her fall/winter collection with Allegiance Skateboard, the entire site is about to undergo a drastic switch to involve much more of the community! Anyone involved will be able to login and post what inspires them, what they have been making, etc. She meets new people nearly everyday through Allegiance, and it has truly been a remarkable journey so far, all from the love of art and skateboarding!
Oxbow was, without a doubt, the best part of my high school experience. A year after leaving, and I still feel as though it were yesterday that I was sitting on the lawn, eating in the dining hall, and laughing with my friends in the studios.
— Julia Weir, Fall 2015
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
I learned to drop all previous assumptions I had about people because I had never met anyone like the other students at Oxbow. For the first time, my peers and their insightful thinking inspired me. For example, during the ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ presentations, I kept looking around the room thinking, I can’t believe all of these students are talking the way I think.
— Sara DeLong, Spring 2010
A School Like No Other