Jessica Lamazor

Jessica Lamazor

Teaching Fellow

Jessica is a Brooklyn-born artist who will receive her degree at SUNY Binghamton this spring with a BS in Human Development and BA Fine Arts. Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, she is looking forward to traveling throughout the United States. Her love for the arts goes hand in hand with her interest in working with children of all ages. For the last several years, she has worked as a camp counselor at a Brooklyn-based fine arts day camp with young children, teaching and exploring a range of mediums. Jessica has also been exploring mindfulness practices and is hoping to incorporate those into her art facilitation. She was part of OS32 and is thrilled to be returning to Oxbow with a new perspective as a staff member.

Directors

Susan Lynn Smith

Susan Lynn Smith
Summer Camp Director

Dylan Welch

Dylan Welch
Summer Camp Assistant Director

Faculty

Maya Shengold

Maya Shengold
Digital Media/Head Faculty

Mikhaila Quezada

Mikhaila Quezada
Sculpture Faculty

Andre Comtois

Andre Comtois
Drawing & Painting Faculty

Pia Sazani
Printmaking Faculty

Counselors

Char O Dair Gadler

Char O’Dair Gadler
Community Art Coordinator & Teaching Fellow

Terra Brazier

Terra Brazier
Residential Life Coordinator & Head Teaching Fellow

Elllie LaCourt

Ellie LaCourt
Teaching Fellow

Amanda Erickson

Amanda Erickson
Teaching Fellow

Wheeler Bills

Wheeler Bills
Teaching Fellow

Lucy Freedman

Lucy Freedman
Teaching Fellow

Jessica Lamazor

Jessica Lamazor
Teaching Fellow

Cleo Berliner

Cleo Berliner
Teaching Fellow

At Oxbow, I got to try inquiry-based learning for the first time. This allowed me to control the amount of rigor and the depth of research in my topic, as well as picking a topic that I found most interesting. From going through this new process of learning, I feel excited to go back to the rigor of my sending school to apply the inquiry-based perspective to my classes.

— Meave Cunningham, Fall, 2015

Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.

— John Powley, Parent

In the year leading up to Oxbow, I became obsessed with the program, I was entranced with reading testimonials and researching interdisciplinary learning styles. When I arrived at Oxbow I was never disappointed, despite my endless expectations. I will forever cherish the time I spent at Oxbow and the connections I made there. Through Oxbow I was able to hone into the ideas I was thinking about, to refine my artistic process and to see the world in a new light every day of my life. I'm not going to say that without Oxbow I wouldn't be the person I am today, but I will say that without Oxbow it would have taken me at least four years to become who I am after one Oxbow semester.

— Phoebe Dubisch, Fall 2018

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