Chris Thorson and Maria Forde's two person exhibition entitled "Strange Reprise" was at the new visual arts exhibition space state in the Mission District of San Francisco.

"Strange Reprise examines the artistic production of two artists who engage with the history of popular culture and its potential to shape personal and cultural identities. Forde will present her new series, Western Drawings, and Chris Thorson will be showing new work from her Tabula Rasa and Internal Monologue series." Read full press release

Chris Thorson is Oxbow School's Painting faculty.

It is with great sadness that we send news of a loss in the Oxbow alumni family: Cash Askew, OS23, passed away on December 2, 2016, a victim of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, CA.

Cash was a creative artist and critically acclaimed musician with the Bay Area band Them Are Us Too and was pursuing a BFA at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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

Artist Caroline Woolard will be joining our faculty for Fall 2016 to work with students on projects.

Artist Biography

Caroline Woolard makes art and infrastructures for the solidarity economy. Her method enjoins objects to their contexts of circulation. Woolard builds sculptures for barter only as she also creates international barter networks that continue to grow; she fabricates model Shaker housing and she also convenes organizers of community land trusts.

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Artist Tucker Nichols will be joining our faculty for Fall 2016 to work with students on projects. You can join us for a lecture with Nichols:

Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:00 - 8:30PM
Locationi: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

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It is with great sadness that we send news of a loss in the Oxbow alumni family: Jonathan Adkisson, OS29, passed away on July 15, 2016. We will remember JJ for his spirit, humor, and creativity.

JJ was pursuing a BFA in graphic design at CalArts and the Adkisson family has set up a scholarship fund to honor him. The JJ Adkisson Memorial Scholarship Fund at CalArts is a merit based scholarship for exceptional young artists in the graphic design program.

To everyone who joined us for the 3rd Annual Riverside Picnic and Concert on Saturday, June 11 to RAISE THEIR PADDLES in support of The Oxbow School, THANK YOU! The event was once again a wonderful gathering of friends on Oxbow’s stunning campus to enjoy great food and wine, fun live bluegrass music, and we raised over $75,000 in support of deserving Oxbow students. Thanks to the generosity of the community who shares our commitment to student diversity, we are able to provide financial aid and create a school of access for students from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences.

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Please join us on June 11th for the 3rd Annual Oxbow Picnic & Concert on the Oxbow lawn with music and great food – it's a fun afternoon by the Napa River.

Don't miss the live Bluegrass musical performance by Ed Neff and his band, and the fabulous picnic featuring food and drink from some of the Bay Area's finest purveyors. Purchase your tickets now!

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Holly McVeigh, Oxbow's Admissions Director made it back after a 10 day trip to Patagonia, Argentina.

She took a 5 night pack trip on horseback, cooked meals over an open campfire, participated in group writing exercises, and went swimming in an Alpine Lake on her horse!

The Women's Horse Pack trip was led by Oxbow alum Lulu Watts OS4!

Oxbow Friends - Thank you to so many of you who showed up in support of both Oxbow and Margrit Mondavi, one of Oxbow's founders on April 16th at the Robert Mondavi Winery - it was a spectacular evening in every way; the weather couldn't have been nicer or the setting more beautiful. The event was sold out with many family members and long-time friends of Margrit, and a sizable group of devoted friends of Oxbow; and best of all, thanks to Margrit's generosity and foresight for collecting many works by visiting artists to the winery over a 40 year period-all of which were auctioned off that evening-Oxbow was the recipient of the proceeds from the event. Truly a win-win for all involved!

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