09/12/19
Sophie Halpin spent the Spring semester of her senior year traveling Europe. Next she plans to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Sophie's tour was featured in an interview titled Student, 18, spends two months in solo trip to Europe by Heidi Bowman for the Woodford County Journal.
06/20/19
Amelia Bond is working as an intern this summer at the Kidd Lab at UC Berkeley. The lab studies knowledge acquisition throughout infancy and childhood. They use computational models and behavioral experiments to differentiate between competing learning theories and measure how infants and children learn and play. Their results are quantitative theories about how young learners interact with the world around them. The theories are used to develop learning technologies for children, parents, and clinical practitioners. Amelia’s role is to design posters and flyers and host events at children’s centers to recruit children and their families to participate in the studies!
She is also volunteering as a Community Reading Buddy at three different preschools in Oakland with the Aspire Education Project. Along with the other reading buddies, is working one-on-one with preschoolers to help them develop early literacy skills and a love for reading!
06/19/19
Phoebe Dubisch is currently mentoring in Medical Illustration with Barrow Neurological Institute. She is working with Medical App Developer, Liza Knipscher, to build informational apps and games; as well as observing other illustrators and 3D modelers. She has also been preparing for the start of the Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics (YSPA) being held at the Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium where she will be spending the month of July at Yale University modeling extragalactic supernova explosions. At the moment, Phoebe is in Spokane, Washington for the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly to present her Radically Inclusive Pathway to Membership, a deeper and more accessible model for the future membership in Unitarian Universalist Congregations everywhere. In her little spare time, she has been learning two different coding languages and completing art commissions for those who have donated to her GoFundMe that supports her YSPA fees.
04/19/19
Sophia Halpin traveled Iceland in a KuKu Kamper around the island, taking pictures, and enjoying in the local flavor. She'll remain in Europe on a backpacking trip through June.
04/19/19
Phoebe has been admitted to the CITYterm semester school for the Fall of 2019!
If at any point Oxbow doubts the good it does, I just want to reassure you all that you’re changing the lives of young artists every semester.
— Colin Davis, Fall 2009
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 Association, College of Art and Design (AICAD)
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
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