OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART FOR MI ARTISTS & PARTNER SCHOOLS SUMMER 2021 COURSE CATALOG TA B LE O F CONTENTS SUMMER COURSE 2021 CATALOG COURSE OFFERINGS

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COVER ART BY Melissa Leandro PROUDLY AFFILIATED Poppy Mallow; Jacquard weaving, dye, WITH THE SCHOOL OF embroidery; 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm); 2020 THE ART INSTITUTE OF 24 FACULTY & VISITING CHICAGO, A MAJOR PAGE 100 Photo courtesy of the artist. ARTIST BIOS SCHOOL OFOX-BOW ART FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER SPONSOR OF OX-BOW T H E T E A M A NOTE FROM ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OUR DIRECTOR... Shannon R. Stratton

Executive Director SUMMER 2021 Dear Artist, Claire Arctander Campus Director Historically, artists have come to Ox- experimentation, and fellowship add Laura Eberstein Director of Finance & Administration Bow to take summer classes in studio up to transformation and renewal. art—and after a week or two spent Ashley Freeby Communications Manager living, working, and eating together While 2020 challenged people across & Head Designer in a setting replete with meadow, the globe, it was also a year that 3 Molly Markow lagoon, and woods, they leave feeling shattered entrenched systems, making Executive Assistant MISSION & OVERVIEW part of a new community. Some talk room for the possibility of change. It Ox-Bow connects artists to: Ciera Mckissick Communications Associate about the magic of Ox-Bow, about forced all of us in our communities, •• A network of creative resources, people, and ideas •• An energizing natural environment feeling transformed, while others talk both intimately and broadly, to reckon Rebecca Parker •• A rich artistic history and vital future Senior Director of Academic Programs about the bonds they created here, more deeply with the realities of

Maddie Reyna about the friendships that blossomed privilege and disparity, and what care OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART & ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY was Assistant Director of Academic Programs over dinner and dance parties while is and is capable of in the face of established in 1910 and continues its mission of connecting CAMPUS & SEASONAL STAFF immersed in their creative lives. exceptional constraint. artists to a network of creative resources, people, and Erin Chapla ideas; an energizing natural environment; and a rich Head Chef Like many schools in 2020, Ox-Bow We are hopeful that when people artistic history and vital future. Ox-Bow’s egalitarian and Nate Large had to cease its summer and winter return to gathering—when warmer intimate environment encourages all artists, regardless Sous Chef classes and recalibrate its approach temperatures make the possibility of experience, to find, amplify, rediscover, and share their Chefs impulse to create. Faculty, Visiting Artists, Residents, staff, Mary Clemens, Emory Hall, to living and learning in community. of fellowship viable once again— TJ Mathieu & Billy-Marie Peña and students live together in a temporary intentional This break from in-person learning this will be a time to work, talk, and John Rossi gave us the opportunity to reflect on repair together, and to stoke the community on our campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, where Facilities Manager they share meals, social time, and the exchange of ideas. the ingredients that make the Ox-Bow transformative ideas that will carry Aaron Cook We actively encourage our participants to engage across Operations Manager experience one that so many describe makers and thinkers into the future

differences in age, regional location, race, and gender as “life-changing,” and to build on with compassion, hope, and vibrancy. FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER Mac Akin identity, learning what it means to be a community by Campus Manager those ingredients to create an all-new

participating in one. Michael Cuadrado immersive, multidisciplinary learning On behalf of all of us at Ox-Bow School Housekeeping Manager encounter. of Art & Artists’ Residency, we look FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK Devin Balara forward to hosting you. @OXBOWSCHOOLOFART Metals Studio Manager In 2021, to mitigate risks to our staff Dove Drury Hornbuckle and students, we have reduced our With care, CONTACT US [email protected] || www.ox-bow.org Ceramics Studio Manager summer population by over half and 3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453 Bobby Gonzales Print & New Media Studio Manager introduced a new three-week intensive model. We believe this more intimate Connor O’Brien Glass Teaching Assistant experience will allow for the type of PROUDLY AFFILIATED authentic, interdisciplinary community Shannon R. Stratton WITH THE SCHOOL OF Lucy Gillis THE ART INSTITUTE OF Glass Studio Assistant that Ox-Bow thrives at making: one Executive Director CHICAGO, A MAJOR SPONSOR OF OX-BOW Danielle Thurber-DeGroot where deep learning, collaboration, PAGE 2 Campus Wellness Counselor SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW At its core, Ox-Bow creates space for a close- C O U R S E knit community, one that is both rigorous

and generous, experimental, and supportive, SUMMER 2021 OFFERINGS freeing up artists to take risks and engage in conversations that are impactful to their work. Over the last year, we’ve spent much time HOW CAN I TAKE A CLASS IN SUMMER 2021? reflecting on the ways we continually learn 5 and grow as an organization, pinpointing those aspects that make some artists describe the place as “life-changing,” and cultivating a ONLINE Are available NON-CREDIT more intentional approach to bringing people for those who You can take want the Ox-Bow in-person or online together on campus. experience at courses during home! IN-PERSON session 3 or 5. This summer, we are embracing intimate learning communities on campus by hosting small groups of artists for in-person WHERE DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL? experiences. These smaller sessions allow us to explore new models, to provide dedicated FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER

NO SCHOOL weeks to particular audiences, and to be AFFLIATION present with one another in a way that so many of us have been missing. PARTNER SCHOOL You can take in-person courses SCHOOL OF THE ART We are excited to invite you to embrace this during session INSITITUTE OF CHICAGO 1 , 3, or 5. new season along with us. Use the flowchart to You can take in-person courses during session 2 or 4 for our 3-week intensive or the left to beginning finding your path. session 3 for 2-week courses or session 5

for a 1-week course, SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW PAGE 4 MICHIGAN 1 3 5 PA R T NER MICHIGAN MAY 12–18 JUNE 18-JULY 2 AUGUST 23-29 SCHOOLS We are excited to expand 1-WEEK COURSES 2-WEEK COURSES 1-WEEK COURSES our partnerships with SUMMER 2021 ARTIST schools across Michigan PLEIN AIR PLUS MULTI-LEVEL ENCAUSTIC & this year. We will collaborate Josh Dihle PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS MATERIALITY IN PAINTING 659 001 CONTEMPORARY directly with each partner AND MEANING with Stevie Cisneros Hanley PAINTING school to identify students PAINTING 605 001 Kristy Deetz COURSE who might benefit from PAINTING 654 001 attending Ox-Bow, in addition to working with you FLORA, FAUNA, BEGINNING MULTILEVEL OFFERINGS on funding. FIGURE & GLASSBLOWING GLASSBLOWING: 7 NARRATIVE Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez WORKING HOT & Salvador Jiménez-Flores & GLASS 630 001 TAKING CHANCES REGISTRATION Casey Elizabeth Weldon Ekin Deniz Aytac & Joshua 1-WEEK This summer presents Monday, March 29, 2021 – CER 651 001 Davids SESSION Open Summer Registration GLASS 641 001 three opportunities for starts at 9:30 a.m. EST (8:30 Session 1: a.m. CST) online May 12–18 Michigan students to MONOTYPE SPECULATIVE WORLDS: PAPERMAKING Aay Preston Myint SCREENPRINT AS STUDIO TUITION & FEES PRINT 609 001 INTERVENTION Andrea Peterson Corinne Teed & Erik Ruin PAPER 604 001 enroll in core classes at TUITION (1 WEEK) 2- WEEK PRINT 659 001 SESSION Ox-Bow. The first week of $900 ROOM & BOARD Session 3: (1 WEEK) June 18 – July 2 programming will bring $805 DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ARTIFACTS: BEYOND BORDERS: COLLAGE MOLDMAKING, THE THIRD COVID FEE Annalee Koehn HYDROPRINTING, DIMENSION IN together artists from $125 1-WEEK PAINTING 653 001 SCREENSPACE OBJECTS PRINT & Christopher Meerdo SESSION partner schools from TOTAL COSTS FOR 1 WEEK BOOKBINDING $1,830 + lab fees SCULP 662 001 Jeanine Coupe Ryding & Session 5 : Myungah Hyon all across Michigan, as TOTAL COSTS FOR 2 WEEKS PRINT 658 001 August 23 – $3,535 + lab fees

August 29 well as other artists from FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER SCHOLARSHIPS

Michigan who are not ONLINE Scholarship funding is June 6-19 currently in academic available to Michigan artists. The scholarship June 20 - July 3 deadline is Monday, I L A N A WILLIAM J. NORA MAITE E R I C A programs. Session 3 and HARRIS- July 11-24 March 22, 2021, at 10 a.m. O’BRIEN NIEVES CARDWELL BABOU EST (9 a.m. CST). For those 5 are open to all artists, students attending through their schools, funding will regardless of regional or be coordinated with your school. academic affiliation. ONLINE COURSES*

JUNE 6-19 JUNE 20–JULY 3 JULY 11–24 PAGE 6 *TURN TO PAGE 16 FOR MORE INFOMATION SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: SESSION 1

FLORA, FAUNA, rary approaches to painting surface. imagery, function, utility, and content FIGURE & Students will develop outdoor observa- building. Students will employ traditional tional painting skills that can be brought materials and tools such as bristol board, SUMMER 2021 NARRATIVE back to the studio and worked over X-Acto knives, scissors, tape and glue, Instructor: Salvador Jiménez-Flores & with an expanded vocabulary of mark and a stockpile of colored papers, found Casey Elizabeth Weldon making and materiality. Taken together, images, and other printed materials. Stu- the strategies introduced in this course dents will come away with a collection of CER 651 001 | 1 week | Lab Fee: $75 will bind close looking and immersion in meaningful objects that incorporate their This class engages with the form and the natural environment with the inward personal vision and an expanded visual content of flora and fauna through gaze and reactivity of the studio. We will vocabulary. figurative ceramics. Throughout history, look closely at the work of Thornton Dial, artists have used plant and animal life Jay DeFeo, Gina Beavers, Chris Martin, 9 MONOTYPE as tools for narrative and as modes of Rashid Johnson, Charles Burchfield, and Instructor: Aay Preston-Myint expression to represent the conflicts Lois Dodd. We will also broadly survey and connections between living things. Northern European medieval reliquary PRINT 609 001 | 1 week | Lab Fee: $50 From mythical narratives to hyperrealist techniques and make use of recent Monotype is a versatile, hybrid process practices, representations of plant and advances in painting materials. Students that combines the reproducible technol- animal life can create possibilities for will produce five paintings that start ogy of printmaking with chance opera- new stories, meanings, and identities. outdoors and are completed in studio. tions and improvisation. This course will Students will employ various hand-build- Students will also maintain a dedicated present several oil- and water-based ing methods, basic surface application, sketchbook/scrapbook. monotype techniques grounded in and assemblage to explore their interest drawn, painted, and photographic image in culture, storytelling, and self-identity. DIMENSIONAL transfers, as well as relief and collage. Works by artists including Kiki Smith, Mar- Through fast-paced, generative, and ex- cus Kenney, Firelei Baéz, and Alessandro COLLAGE Instructor: Annalee Koehn perimental printmaking in the landscape Gallo will act as points of departure for and in the studio, students will explore our work. Through demonstrations, slides, PAINTING 653 001 | 1 week | Lab Fee: $50 how monotype techniques can challenge in-class activities, readings, and group This class combines traditional col- the typically strict qualities and defini- discussions, this course will provide a lage concepts and paper construction tions of the print medium. productive and critical space for making. styles to explore a structural approach Class conversations will focus on the to image and form using found image- content and context of student work. ry and materials. Whether deliberate or makeshift, there is a body of artist FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER PLEIN AIR PLUS collage that references the world of 3D Instructor: Josh Dihle objects such as paper toys, games, and

packaging. Informed by the tradition of PAINTING 659 001 | 1 week collage and assemblage work by artists This course leapfrogs impressionist including Eileen Agar, Romare Bearden, landscape painting by adding tech- Joseph Cornell, Hannah Höch, Claes Old- niques and influences garnered from enburg, Pablo Picasso, Betye Saar, and folk artists of the American South, Kurt Schwitters, this class will explore and medieval reliquary art, and contempo- expand the possibilities of 3D structural (clockwise from top Josh Dihle, Detail of lation, terracotta, left) Tasters, 2019, walnut, stains, metallic glaze, Aay Preston-Myint, 66” x 50” x 2.5” gold, copper, and Untitled (Smoke), pearl lusters It’s a magical place and the convergence of great people and ideas. 2020, Screenprint on Salvador Jiménez- paper, 38” x 50” Flores, El árbol del Annalee Koehn, Although there are recurring events and traditions that take medio ambiente en la No.13, 2012, Fabric place at Oxbow, every time I go back the experience is uniquely Casey Elizabeth Wel- villita / The Environ- and mixed media don, Sunset Sisters, mental Tree of Little collage - Alberto Aguilar its own. Always memorable.” 2020, 5’x 3.5’ Village, 2020, Instal- PAGE 8 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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VISITING ARTISTS

SESSION 3 SUMMER 2021 2-week core classes

NORA MAITE I L A N A JUNE 18–JULY 2 NIEVES HARRIS-BABOU Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, including High Concept Labs, and based in Brooklyn, Nora the Cooper Union Summer Art Maité Nieves is interested in the Intensive, and ÁREA: Lugar de This session at Ox-Bow expanded dialogue of painting. Proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Her paintings, drawings, and Nieves received her MFA from 11 sculptures explore how we the School of the Art Institute follows our more traditional define space through domestic of Chicago and her BFA from ownership, making reference to the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y intensive model of taking ornamental details from archi- Diseño, San Juan. tecture, especially floor and wall surfaces and tiles. She is drawn Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is one class over the course to the mystic values of objects interdisciplinary, spanning such as amulets, heirlooms, and sculpture and installation, and of two weeks. Each student jewelry. Recent solo exhibitions grounded in video. Her work include Full Room in the Sun confronts the contradictions will take a single class and Room, Fresh Window Gallery, of the American Dream: the New York; Paisaje Lunar, Fly- ever-unreliable notion that hard work with faculty from weight Projects, New York; and work will lead to upward mobility Tangible, Hidrante Gallery, San and economic freedom. She has Juan. Recent group exhibitions exhibited throughout the United 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily include shows at Embajada, States and Europe, with solo Km0.2, and the Museo de Arte exhibitions at 80WSE Gallery, the throughout the session. Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Museum of Arts and Design, and San Juan; Jessica’s Apartment Larrie, New York. She has also Gallery, Unisex Salon, and Fresh exhibited at venues including Window, New York; Galleri Thom- Abrons Art Center, the Jewish assen, Gothenburg, Sweden; the Museum, SculptureCenter, Latino Arts Gallery, Milwaukee; and the Whitney Museum of and the Ukrainian Institute of American Art, New York, and the I think we’ll all have a renewed sense of the sheer privilege of being able to

Modern Art, National Museum of de Young, San Francisco. She FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, holds an MFA in New Genres attend Oxbow in person this year. My advice is for us all to pause, to look up, and Terrain Biennial, Chicago. from Columbia University and a out, and around, to inhale deeply, to take care of one another, to make the

She has attended residencies BA from Yale University. most of this special place :) - Claire Ashley

JUNE 18-JULY 2, 2021

2-WEEK COURSES

MULTI-LEVEL BEGINNING SPECULATIVE V I R T UA L PAINTING: FORM, GLASSBLOWING WORLDS: A R T I FAC T S : PROCESS AND Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez SCREENPRINT AS MOLDMAKING, MEANING GLASS 630 001 INTERVENTION HYDROPRINTING, Stevie Cisneros Hanley Corinne Teed & Erik Ruin SCREENSPACE PAINTING 605 001 PRINT 659 001 OBJECTS Christopher Meerdo SCULPTURE 662 001 PAGE 10 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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(opposite page - clock- color pencil, gouache, Christopher Meerdo, wise from top left) and acrylic on paper Dispersal Order, 2020, COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: SESSION 3 (framed) 50.75” x 37.5” thermoformed Kydex, Victoria Ahmadizadeh electro luminescent Melendez, selective Erik Ruin, Mary Maudlin paint, custom electron- We will discuss artists who engage readings will include essays that memory, 2018, artists’ (performance still at ics, 11x16x5” BEGINNING denim jacket, blown Rooftop Films), creation GLASSBLOWING with world-making, from the hellish consider historic perspectives on glass shards, mixed 2016, performance Corinne Teed, The En- 2019, spraypaint, tanglement I, 2018 landscapes of Hieronymous Bosch to computational visual culture as well media, jacket: women’s Instructor: Victoria Ahmadizadeh size medium, installa- stencil and papercut SUMMER 2021 Melendez the utopic processions of Athi-Patra as contemporary positions. Scholars tion dimensions variable on paper with live musical accompani- Ruga, as well as authors including and artists include Rosalind Krauss, GLASS 630 001 | 2 weeks Stevie Cisneros Hanley, ment, 30’x18” (scroll Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Sonia Sheridan, Hiwa K, Prosthetic Hospital for Sick dimension) 3 credit hours | Lab Fee: $300 Witches, 2019, water- Jose Esteban Muñoz, and Ruth Knowledge, and Timur Si-Qin. This course offers hands-on Levitas. Students will participate Course assignments will move from glassblowing experience to in world-building prompts, writing screen objects to physical objects, the beginner. Participants will exercises, and critical dialogues culminating in hydroprinted forms learn a variety of techniques for 13 on the role of printmaking as that combine both two- and three- manipulating molten “hot glass” intervention in the social sphere. dimensional compositional spaces. into vessel or sculptural forms. Assignments will include the creation Lectures, videos, demonstrations, of hand-cut stencils, digitally MULTI-LEVEL and critiques will augment studio designed CMYK projects, and a final PAINTING: FORM, instruction. project taking on the notion of the PROCESS AND screenprint in the expanded field. M E A N I N G SPECULATIVE Students will produce a portfolio of Instructor: Stevie Cisneros Hanley projects that incorporates two- WORLDS: PAINTING 605 001 | 2 week | 3 credit hours SCREENPRINT AS dimensional screenprinting. INTERVENTION This course for beginning to Instructors: Corinne Teed & Erik Ruin VIRTUAL ARTIFACTS: advanced students will include extensive experimentation with PRINT 659 001 | 2-week MOLDMAKING, materials and techniques through 3 credit hours | Lab Fee: $100 HYDROPRINTING, SCREENSPACE individual painting problems. In this course, students will OBJECTS Emphasis will be placed on active develop screenprinting skills while Instructor: Christopher Meerdo decision making to explore formal considering the historical use of print and material options as part of the SCULP 662 001 | 2 weeks in inventing and building disparate painting process in relation to form

3 credit hours | Lab Fee: $200 FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER worlds. Printmaking is unique for its and meaning. Students will pursue history of communication through This two-week intensive will consider various interests in subject matter.

calling to action and imagining the how nonmaterial modes can Students may choose to work with future. Students will explore notions manifest into tangible objecthood. oil-based media. Demonstrations, of utopia and dystopia, using Week 1 will introduce participants lectures, and critiques will be installation, animation, relief print, to the moldmaking process, included. and performance in their endeavors using the screenspace as source to reimagine the graphic manifesto. material. Week 2 will introduce Students will be encouraged to the hydroprinting technique, experiment with text, posters, and with a focus on both form and immersive installations to redefine surface. Typically used in industrial the realm of the possible. The course applications, water transfer printing will include tutorials on printing allows students to reimagine techniques, incorporating both and enrich their sculptures hand-drawn and digital stencils. with surface images. Course PAGE 12 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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PAPERMAKING the hardcover accordion fold, crown book and installation). We will reference The Art STUDIO folding, the franklin fold, the fishbone of Encaustic Painting, by Joanne Mattera, fold, and the triangular fold. There will be and Encaustic Art, by Lissa Rankin, along Instructor: Andrea Peterson

handouts to aid in note taking, as well as with contemporary artists working in the SUMMER 2021 Paper 604 001 | 1 week examples for participants to learn from. medium, including Byron Kim, Kiki Smith, 1.5 credits | Lab Fee: $50 Emphasis is on content, self-expression, and Petah Coyne. The course is structured Paper as an art medium is exciting and elu- and acquiring skills. Participants will come for artists who have experience using sive. Paper pulp can be transformed into away with a good understanding of relief encaustic and want to work with others in sculptural works and drawings with pulp printing, as well as how to make various an atmosphere of exchange and dialogue. and unusual surface textures. It can allude book forms with their prints bound into In-progress critiques and lectures will to skin, metal, rock, or something totally them. No prior bookbinding or print expe- uncover relationships between materiality different. Explore all of these possibilities. rience is necessary. Writers are welcome. and subject to create new ideas. The sur- 15 Stretch your artistic and technical skills to rounding natural environment will provide create singular works of art. ENCAUSTIC & additional inspiration for pursuing new directions and taking risks. MATERIALITY IN BEYOND BORDERS: CONTEMPORARY THE THIRD PAINTING MU LTI LE VE L DIMENSION IN PRINT Instructor: Kristy Deetz GLASSBLOWING: & BOOKBINDING PAINTING 654 001 | 1 week WORKING HOT & Instructors: Jeanine Coupe Ryding & 1.5 credits | Lab Fee: $100 TAKING CHANCES Myungah Hyon This course contextualizes encaustic within Instructors: Ekin Deniz Aytac & PRINT 658 001 | 1 week contemporary painting and materiality. Joshua Davids Encaustic painting techniques create a va- 1.5 credits | Lab Fee: $50 GLASS 641 001 | 1 week riety of rich surface textures that respond 1.5 credits | Lab Fee: $150 Participants in this course will learn to to continual reworking. Encaustic lends it- create the illusion of three-dimensional self to images that are buried under or em- This is a hands-on studio workshop for woodcuts that are bound into sculptural bedded within multiple layers of wax and those with some glassblowing experience. book forms. Using a variety of registration meaning. Students will experiment with Students will learn a variety of techniques methods, including printing on both sides warm wax and pigment to uncover new for manipulating molten “hot glass” into of the paper, participants will explore ideas through process and material. Topics vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, the traditional methods and boundaries covered include the deconstruction of the demonstrations, videos, and critiques will of printmaking. The class will include language of painting, abstraction, and augment studio instruction. demonstrations of bookbinding methods materiality (political, ecological, scientific FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER encompassing simple accordion folds, and technological, ephemeral/durational,

(clockwise from Transparency, Kristy Deetz, Flag top left) Blown Glass, Day Transforming, Diamond Cut, and 2020, Acrylic on Jeanine Coupe Sand Engraved, Digital Pattern Ryding, Water- 14” x 14” x 4.5” Printed on Silk bound, 2020, with Embroidery, woodcut print, Andrea Peterson, 36”x36”x1.5” 42”x30” youth - promise, handmade abaca Myungah Hyon, MIX, 2019, wooden Ekin Deniz Aytac fiber and daylily PAGE 14 PAGE box, rock, paper, phone books & Joshua Davids, spent blossoms, SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW Tower and Rose, 31” x 47” 2020, Cityscapes:

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Cecilia Beaven SUBJECT Jessica Gatlin SUMMER 2021 PAINTING 665 001 Ruby T PRINT 663 001 COURSE PAINTING 652 001 2-week core classes. For credit and non-credit students (3 credits) BETTER HOMES BIRD SCIENCE: AN MATERIAL AND GARDENS INTRODUCTORY EXPLORATION IN Annalise Flynn SURVEY STOP MOTION ARTHI 625 001 Dianne Jedlicka Lauren Gregory 2-WEEK If you can’t make it to Ox-Bow in person this SCIENCE 604 001 PAINTING 664 001 or FVNM 664 001 17 SESSIONS summer, try one of our online classes. We are June 6–19 MATERIALIZING OPENSOURCE CLAY AND THE offering a number of two-week classes with CITATIONS: ARTISTIC STRATEGIES IN 3D, PRACTICE OF WALKING June 20–July 3 RESEARCH AND FORM ANIMATION AND Nicole Seisler a range of topics. In keeping with the Ox-Bow Mev Luna PROJECTION CER 654 001 SCULP 673 001 or VCS 673 001 Tim Beliveau July 11–24 tradition of creating intimate and engaged FVNM 610 001 artists’ communities, these online intensives will bring small groups together to share work OBJECTS IN VIDEO, MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING YOU ART WHAT YOU EAT VIDEO AS OBJECT Kaveri Raina Eric May Ilana Harris-Babou PAINTING 605 001 SCULP 669 001 and ideas and connect in conversation. FVNM 609 001

WEAVING INTENSIVE POLITICS OF PRINT: 3D ANIMATION VIRTUAL kg THINKING THROUGH THE ENVIORNMENTS FIBER 621 001 ARTIST PUBLICATION Snow Yunxue Fu Kevin McCoy FVNM 321 001 PRINT 660 001 REGISTRATION PAYMENT FOR NON-CREDIT FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER Monday, March 29, 2021 – Open Summer Registration (AUDIT) COURSES starts at 9:30 a.m. EST (8:30 a.m. CST) online Full payment of all tuition and fees is required at the

time of registration. Payment for non-credit courses SCHOLARSHIPS may be made by credit card, check, or money order. Ox-Bow accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Scholarship funding is available to Michigan artists. and Discover. Checks and money orders should be The scholarship deadline is Monday, March 22, made payable to Ox-Bow. 2021, at 10 a.m. EST (9 a.m. CST). For those students I learnt that Zoom can be another artistic attending through their schools, funding will be TUITION & FEES coordinated with your school. platform for making work and engaging with a SAIC TUITION

Undergraduate Graduate Cost public. ...I discovered that one's dining room $5,220 + Lab Fees $5,394 + Lab Fees table is sometimes enough of a studio space and NON-CREDIT

$1,800 + Lab Fees a slower, more meditative, drawing process is a PAGE 16 lovely thing. - Claire Ashley SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW JUNE 6-19 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: ONLINE

WEAVING INTENSIVE a personal database of source materials graphic narrative and surrealist strategies, Instructor: kg and, through a series of iterative and multi- and develop the skills to create imagina- faceted making processes, extrapolate form tive sequential art projects. We will look at FIBER 621 001 | 2 weeks and experiment with layered meaning-mak- comics by contemporary authors such as ing in response to their research interests. To Emil Ferris, David B., Jillian Tamaki, and Mi-

The process of weaving allows contem- SUMMER 2021 that end, students are encouraged to bring chael Deforge and host virtual screenings porary makers to explore narratives of with them their practice, across disciplines. of alternative animations by Suzan Pitt, Sal- identity, labor, history, and the body. This Together, we will expand the inner logic of ly Cruikshank, Pendleton Ward, and Yoriko course explores weaving’s connection our respective processes by instinctively fol- Mizushiri. In addition, we will look at the use to narrative, addressing how meaning lowing research threads, remaining tethered of surrealist strategies by contemporary can be made through conceptual and to scholarship as we allow the gravitational painters including Christina Ramberg, Jim process-based approaches. We will focus force of this enigmatic approach to pull us Nutt, and Marcel Dzama, and we will glean on narrative in relation to weaving through and our practices away from the estab- surrealist narrative strategies by reviewing imagery, found objects, woven structure, lished and toward the unknown. the work of writers like the Oulipo group, the 19 performance, display, warp and weft rela- Latin American magical realism movement, tionships, and color, and dig into the pro- and Lewis Carroll. The assignments in cess of weaving itself as narrative work. BETTER HOMES AND painting and drawing can include illustra- Students will learn weaving techniques GARDENS tions, comic strips, comic pages, and zines. and loom construction, and execute a Instructor: Annalise Flynn For the final project, students will create a number of finished works. graphic narrative piece employing material ARTHI 625 001 | 2 weeks and narrative experimentation. MATERIALIZING This course explores the rich genre of ver- CITATIONS: nacular art environments—combinations OBJECTS IN VIDEO, ARTISTIC RESEARCH of art, architecture, and/or landscape AND FORM architecture—including religious grottos; VIDEO AS OBJECT spiritual, devotional, and mystical sites; Instructor: Ilana Harris-Babou Instructor: Mev Luna gardens; ephemeral yard shows; architec- FVNM 609 001 | 2 weeks VCS 673 001 OR SCULP 673 001 | 2 weeks tural inventions; expressions of loneliness and survival; homes fully transformed; In a world where screens are often taken Artistic research is a methodology so artist’s museums; and other created for granted, this course asks students to expansive that it amalgamates everything spaces that are site- and life-specific. We reimagine our complicated relationship it touches while remaining loyal to no par- will examine historical and contemporary with video. We will work at the intersection ticular form. That it cannot be defined so art environments and issues impacting art of moving image and sculpture, examining singularly is both a point of contention and from beyond the academic mainstream how video can transform our connection to a source of potential. Artistic research is, and its evolving definitions, with attention both our environment and our own bodies. as Lucy Cotter states in the introduction to to environments in relation to their social, Students will experiment with lighting, FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER Reclaiming Artistic Research, “fundamen- political, and cultural contexts; the home props, and set design, paying close at- tally different from academic research, . and landscape as studios; and site pres- tention to how surfaces are transformed . . because it follows its own inner logic in ervation. by the lens. We will investigate projection resonance with the wider languages and mapping, video installation, and the pecu- sensibilities of art, rather than the logic of liarities of the screen. While attention will any external discipline.” Expanding on this GRAPHIC NARRATIVE be paid to demonstrations and hands-on (clockwise from top bars stuffed with the Mev Luna, Digital text and collection of interviews, this course SURREALISM experiments, we will also consider the work left) last of the incense Deliverance: White will engage a variety of research methods, Instructor: Cecilia Beaven of Hito Steyerl and Nam June Paik and texts I burned Saviorism and the including the activation of archives, materi- kg, All You animals, before you moved Screen, 2019, Large PAINTING 665 001 | 2 weeks by Rosalind Krauss, all of whom unpack al history, and oral history, delving into con- 2018, out format publication the relationship between objects and time Two moths set in 5”x5” on architectural siderations of embodied research and af- Comics and other forms of graphic narra- and emphasize both the physicality and pools of golden blueprint hanger, 2' fect, social configurations, and the senses. tive often enhance the irrational, absurd, immateriality of video through explora- Caran d’Ache Ilana Harris-Babou, x 44” In addition to reading related texts, we will and dreamy elements of life through surre- tions of installation and web-based art. on the ground 2016, still from look at the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan, alist techniques. Blurring the line between of spun wool Rana Cooking with the Cecilia Beaven, Students can expect to participate in daily Otobong Nkanga, Carolyn Lazard, Hồng-Ân fact and fiction can strengthen the artist’s brought back Erotic, 2-channel HD Cocodrilo Luminis- studio exercises. The class culminates in an from Oaxaca video, 11:37min. cente, 2020, Acrylic Trương, Alan Ruiz, Jessica Vaughn, and Goat vision and blend the inner world with the ambitious final project, to be installed in plied through golden on canvas, 20” x 24” Island, among others. Participants will build physical. In this course, we will explore physical space or online. cotton PAGE 18 PAGE OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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FACES!: with practices in all media are welcome. be placed on the conceptual develop- PORTRAITURE AND This course draws from a culture of ment and exploration of analog meth- digital media, including writing by Hito ods utilized in the civil rights protest THE EXPANDED Steyerl, Jenny Odell, and Byung-Chul era. Processes such as screenprinting, SUBJECT Han and artwork by Mika Rothenberg, vinyl-plate lithography, polymer plate SUMMER 2021 Instructor: Ruby T Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Virginia printing, letterpress printing, and perfect Lee Montgomery. Assignments will be bindery will be demonstrated and utilized PAINTING 652 001 | 2 weeks given throughout the session, building on to produce a series of artist’s books, with What does it mean to draw the face of a skills as they’re taught. We will begin with the goal of producing visually striking person, a place, or an idea? For centu- short animations, move on to video/audio content. The class will review the instruc- ries, portraiture has been used to record editing, and then challenge students to tor’s own publication, Obliqueness of history and build intimacy. With the fun- gather images, video, or text from their White Supremacy, as well as Propagan- damentals of observational drawing as own life to guide their digital work. The da and Persuasion, by Garth S. Jowett a starting point, this course explores the course culminates in a set of animation and Victoria J. O’Donnell, to examine the 21 boundaries of portrait making through reels created by the class and projected marriage of form and content. Excerpts experimentation with subject, medium, into the Ox-Bow campus. from books such as The Vignelli Canon, scale, and site. From human faces to car by Massimo Vignelli, and White, by Jap- faces to the faces of our ideas and emo- anese designer Kenya Hara, will become tions, we will stretch traditional notions MULTI-LEVEL useful tools for understanding layout, of portraiture through expanded subject PAINTING: FORM, form, sequence, color, and visual impact. matter as well as material choices. Stu- PROCESS AND The class will comprise demonstrations, dents will work with a range of wet and MEANING discussions, and time allotted for both dry media, including charcoal, graphite, Instructor: Kaveri Raina research and work. The culminating pro- pen, and ink. Slide lectures and critiques ject includes a series of handmade books will offer additional insight into the his- PAINTING 605 001 | 2 weeks with content collaboratively provided tory and possibilities of portraiture, with and created by the class. This course for beginning to advanced an emphasis on portraiture beyond the students will include extensive experi- Western canon. mentation with materials and techniques BIRD SCIENCE: AN through individual painting problems. INTRODUCTORY Emphasis will be placed on active OPENSOURCE SURVEY STRATEGIES IN 3D, decision making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting Instructor: Dianne Jedlicka ANIMATION AND process in relation to form and meaning. SCIENCE 604 001 | 2 weeks PROJECTION Students will pursue various interests in Instructor: Tim Belliveau subject matter. Students may choose Ox-Bow provides a wonderful opportunity FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER to work with oil-based media. Demon- to observe many species of native birds FVNM 610 001 | 2 weeks strations, lectures, and critiques will be in various habitats. This class will virtually

Digital tools can facilitate the interaction included. utilize the forests, meadows, dunes, and of images, objects, and sounds in sur- lakes in the vicinity to identify local spe- prising and inspiring ways. Aided by the cies conducting observational research rise of open-source software, students POLITICS OF PRINT: on select species, we will look at world- will capitalize on these resources from THINKING THROUGH wide distribution of the different bird fam- their home studios. Using Blender 3D THE ARTIST ilies. We will discuss the physics of flight, software to model, animate, and import PUBLICATION bird anatomy, and physiology. Lectures (clockwise from 2019, 16 Pages, WORK/PLAY in 2020 Acrylic, images, audio, and video, students will Instructor: Kevin McCoy regarding egg laying, ecological and evo- top left) 8 x 10 inches, collaboration graphite, oil be encouraged to incorporate glitches lutionary adaptations, and environmental Cover: Ther- with Riso Hell pastel, burlap , Ruby T, Drip mography with a Press 40" x 70" and mistakes in experimental making. PRINT 660 001 | 2 weeks influences on the synchronization of egg dry cry, 2020, blind embossed Risograph A beginner’s tutorial of the program will hatching, food availability, predator/ Provoked by the current blurring of fact Acrylic on Interior pages: printing: Riso Tim Belliveau, be provided, and we will use a range prey relationships, and migrations will and fiction, students in this course will hand-marbled 2-color Riso- Hell Press La Realidad Del of strategies to mix digital and real be augmented by field trips to local zoos silk, 18 x 24" graph printing, Perro (Group Ex- produce a series of collaborative art- objects and spaces. No experience in and museums. Students will be required to Side-stitched Kaveri Raina, hibition), 2019, ist’s books to explore and/or challenge Kevin McCoy, bindery; Wish It Was Oth- Framed Digital 3D software is required, and students take one identification test and write two propagandistic narratives. Emphasis will BPP 66-82, Produced by erwise; Lack Of, Prints, Varied PAGE 20 original bird lab research papers. SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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MULTI-MEDIA PRINT Kelly Gallagher, Helen Hill, Jeff Scher, course begins with introductory exercises STUDIO Jacolby Satterwhite, Terry Gilliam, to explore the possibilities in 3D anima- Chris Sullivan, and others. Students will tion, ultimately focusing on the skills

Instructor: Jessica Gatlin SUMMER 2021 produce an animated short involving necessary to complete individually driven PRINT 663 | 2 weeks their own material interests, collaging to- final projects. The course will emphasize gether stop-motion sequences produced 3D modeling, environment creation, and In this course, participants will be en- using a range of animation techniques. their potential relationships to nature. couraged to explore the variety of alter- native print techniques that are possible outside of the traditional studio setting. YOU ART WHAT CLAY & THE Using historical and contemporary exam- YOU EAT PRACTICE OF ples, participants will challenge print vo- Instructor: Eric May WALKING cabulary and form new definitions both 23 Instructor: Nicole Seisler individually and collectively. This range of SCULP 669 001 | 2 weeks imaging techniques will focus on exper- CER 654 001 | 2 weeks | Lab fee: $50 Since the caves at Lascaux, food has imentation with materials, content, and been an original subject of art. In this This course will use clay to link the studio form. Students can expect demonstra- course, we will explore representations of with public space. In addition to learning tions on various processes, such as relief, food in art; the use of food as a medium; basic construction techniques, students transfers, and cyanotype. Readings will and the participatory possibilities of will learn nontraditional approaches include excerpts from Susan Blackmore’s cooking, serving, and dining as art forms. and gain an in-depth understanding of The Meme Machine and Sarah Suzuki’s We will examine cultural and political clay’s behavioral, cyclical, and relational “Print People.” Assignments such as “Print implications of what we eat and how it qualities as they pertain to creating art- in Theory” will assist participants in de- relates to our everyday lives. Our paths works that physically and conceptually veloping a personal approach to incor- of research will wander through the respond to particular sites and places. porating print media into their individual history of food in art as well as outside of Referencing over 70 years of walking as practices technically and/or conceptu- the classroom, into the rich agricultural a creative practice, exercises will use the ally. The class will culminate in a body of abundance of West Michigan, the tradi- act of walking as a primary tool for mov- work or final project informed by studio tions of gastronomy at Ox-Bow, and our ing clay beyond the studio and as a vis- prompts and individual research, to be relationship to the natural landscape. ceral method for deepening the connec- shared with the group. tion between maker, material, and site. 3D ANIMATION The concept of walking as both a way of M ATE R IA L investigating site and a tool in the crea- VI RTUA L EXPLORATION IN tive process references Guy Debord’s 1955

ENVIRONMENTS theory of psychogeography and extends FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER STOP MOTION Instructor: Snow Yunxue Fu into contemporary public practices, as Instructor: Lauren Gregory evidenced by artists such as Richard FVNM 321 001 | 2 weeks PAINTING 664 001 and FVNM 664 001 Long, Hamish Fulton, Gabriel Orozco, and 2 weeks 3D animation is a versatile and Francis Alÿs. Readings include One Place fast-growing technology, used in appli- after Another, by Miwon Kwon; A Field In this handcrafted animation production cations from movies and video games to Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit; course, students will focus on techniques virtual immersive environments. Students and Living as Form, by Nato Thompson. including paint and clay animation, pa- in this course learn how to create their The class structure will also include lec- per cutout animation, stop-motion object own worlds by building three-dimension- tures, readings, work time, and critiques. animation, and performative pixilation al spaces, audio, interactivity, life forms, Projects will be site-specific and site-re- animation using the human body. Each and/or objects using Maya software. sponsive, existing as singular works and student will shoot, edit, and produce one (clockwise from top left) Looking to artists who are utilizing 3D temporal multiples, in which clay is used short animated film during the course. animation in contemporary and exper- to absorb, mark, and build. Jessica Gatlin, In Apropos Nicole Seisler, Prepared, 2020, We’ll explore the culture of experimen- imental ways, such as Zeitguised, Eddo Proposal, 2019, Hand-dyed & Unfired, Wedged Clay tal animation in class discussions after Stern, and Jennifer Steinkamp, students Screen Print Textile Assemblage screening short works by Caroline Leaf, Lauren Gregory, Thu Tran, will research both traditional and nontra- Allison Schulnik, Suzan Pitt, Jodie Mack, Snow Yunxue Fu, Planets 2011, Oil paint on silk, 24 x 18" ditional approaches to the medium. The PAGE 22

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Photo courtesy of the artist (x4) 2019 SAIC Faculty Enrich- ment Grant and eight US FACULTY & VISITING patents, Koehn earned her MFA from Louisiana State University and her BFA from ARTIST BIOS the University of Illinois. SUMMER 2021

Anna Mayer’s art practice is Annalee Koehn is a Anthea Black is a Canadian Arnold Kemp’s visual art, sculptural and social, with Chicago-based artist and artist, art publisher, and performance, and writing an emphasis on hand-built musician whose work is writer based in Oakland and practices explore the regis- Art Museum, Los Angeles. A ceramics. Her methodology often structural but spans Toronto. Her studio practice tration and expression of the former Artist-in-Residence emerges from enacting for- disciplines and materi- focuses on print media and psyche. It is the genius of at Ox-Bow, he is an alumnus mative site-specific analog als, sometimes defying publishing to address queer materials to ensnare artists of the Skowhegan School of firing projects in Southern categorization. Threads that An art historian and arts feminism, collaboration, and in complex attractions. Painting and Sculpture. California. Mayer revels in run throughout include an administrator based in the tensions between visual Stroke, fold, tear, press: 25 the fact that ceramics has exploration of physical and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, representation, embodied material gestures shape the historically been used to metaphorical properties of Annalise Flynn manages experience, and abstraction. artist over time, seeding Aay Preston-Myint is an art- Abigail Lucien is an interdis- alberto aguilar is a chica- Alex Bradley Cohen is a create highly functional materials, play, cause and SPACES—Saving and Black’s recent exhibitions and reseeding the psychic ist, publisher, and educator ciplinary artist raised in Cap go-based artist who uses Chicago-based painter items as well as wildly effect, and the interplay of Preserving Arts and Cultural include Loosely Assembled, conditions of making that working in the San Francisco Haitien, Haiti, and Florida, whatever materials are at who utilizes portraiture to symbolic objects. Her work form and function. Her work Environments, the world’s SBC Gallery, Montreal; precede language, but never Bay Area, after several and now based in Baltimore. hand as a way to connect visualize the push and pull is part of this lineage, with has been shown at venues largest repository of archival HARDCORE EINDHOVEN, form. Form is the shifting years building a career and Encompassing sculpture, with the viewer. he is part of of identity and interpersonal equal concern for the future including the Chicago documentation related to Van Abbemuseum, Nether- apparition of the psyche, and community in Chicago. His poetry, video, and sound, the exhibition latinxamerican relationships. Working with and a dramatically shifting Cultural Center; La Centrale artist-built environments. lands; Beginning with the its pull resonates throughout practice employs both visual their practice looks at ways in at the depaul art museum acrylic paint on canvas, he An artist, educator, and climate—both ecological Galerie POWERHOUSE, Flynn’s work centers on Seventies: GLUT, Belkin Kemp’s interdisciplinary and collaborative strategies which cultural identities and and has an upcoming solo depicts friends, family mem- author based in La Porte, and political. She recently Montreal; Frederick Layton highlighting vernacular cre- Art Gallery, Vancouver; practice. Recently, Kemp’s to investigate memory and inherited colonial structures exhibition at the national bers, and himself in scenes Indiana, Andrea Peterson had solo exhibitions at Gallery at the Milwaukee ative activity, using material, and Publishing Against work has been exhibited at kinship, often within the transmit to the body and museum of mexican art, that foreground everyday creates paper artworks AWHRHWAR, Adjunct Posi- Institute of Art and Design collective memory, and the Grain, touring through Iceberg Projects, Chicago; specific context of queer psyche by playfully challeng- both in chicago. he has moments. Materializing from and relief-printed images tions, and A–B Projects, all (MIAD); Vanderbilt Univer- place as research pillars. Independent Curators Biquini Wax, Mexico City; community and history. In ing systems of assimilation exhibited at the museum of personal photographs and on handmade sheets of in Los Angeles, and in early sity, Nashville; Edinboro She is also the Director of International. Her artist’s KSMoCA, Portland, Oregon; addition to his studio work, through material. Their work contemporary art detroit; memories rather than direct paper utilizing pulp-drawing 2021, she opened a solo ex- University, Pennsylvania; Exhibitions at ART WORKS publications include the and the Drawing Center, he is a founder of No Coast, has been exhibited at institu- palo alto art center; museum observation, each painting techniques. She also creates hibition at the Houston Cen- the Illinois State Museum, Projects, an arts-based newspaper The HIV Howler: New York. His works are in an artist partnership that tions including MoMA PS1, of contemporary art chicago; serves as an exercise site-specific installation work ter for Contemporary Craft. Springfield; and Randolph human rights advocacy or- Transmitting Art and the collections of institutions prints and distributes afford- New York; Atlanta Contem- minneapolis institute of art; in world building, while and book art pieces. She An invited artist at the 2021 Street Gallery, Chicago. ganization in Chicago, where Activism and HANDBOOK: including the Metropolitan able contemporary artwork, porary; Urban Institute for crystal bridges museum emphasizing the interiority co-operates Hook Pottery NCECA Annual at the Alice Koehn was a founding she curates exhibitions and Supporting Queer and Trans Museum of Art and the as well as Co-Director of Contemporary Arts, Grand of american art, benton- of his subjects. Cohen was Paper, a joint venture with F. and Harris K. Weston member of the original 1988 creates public programming Students in Art and Design Studio Museum in Harlem, the Chicago Art Book Fair, Rapids; the Florida State Uni- ville, arkansas; and the art recently included in Triple: her husband, the ceramic Art Gallery, Cincinnati, she Par Excellence artist-built addressing global human Education, a queer and New York; the Berkeley Art

and has served as a DJ and versity Museum of Fine Arts, institute of chicago. his work Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis artist Jon Hook. At this stu- has also had exhibitions at miniature golf course and rights and social justice trans pedagogy project that Museum; and the Portland FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER organizer for Chances Danc- Tallahassee; Woman Made is in the collections of the Fratino, and Tschabalala dio, she creates her artwork, Ballroom Marfa, Texas; the will re-create her golf hole issues. She holds a Master’s took form as a collaborative Art Museum, Oregon. Kemp es, a party that supports Gallery, Chicago; and Vox Po- national museum of mexican Self, at the University Art conducts environmentally Hammer Museum and Com- for the upcoming exhibition in Art History, Theory, and letterpress book. Her book is a Guggenheim Fellow and

and showcases the work of puli and the Fabric Workshop art, crystal bridges museum Museum at the University of concerned paper research, monwealth and Council, Los Par Excellence Redux at Criticism from the School of The New Politics of the has received awards from the queer artists in Chicago. He and Museum, Philadelphia. of american art, soho house Albany, New York. His work and produces paper that Angeles; Kendall Koppe, the Elmhurst Art Muse- the Art Institute of Chicago Handmade: Craft, Art and Joan Mitchell Foundation and currently develops public Lucien was named to the chicago, facebook, and has been included in solo is sold internationally. Glasgow; and Glasgow um, Illinois. She currently and a Bachelor’s from the Design (Bloomsbury Visual the Pollock-Krasner Foun- programs at Headlands Cen- 2021 Forbes “30 Under 30” the office of the mayor of and two-person exhibitions Peterson’s work has been International. In addition, teaches at the School of the Northwestern University Arts), co-edited with Nicole dation. In 2020, he received ter for the Arts, in Sausalito, list and is the 2020 Harpo chicago, lori lightfoot. he at venues including the Lug- collected by the Metropolitan she has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in Medill School of Journalism, Burisch, features new think- the Andy Warhol Foundation California, and is a member Foundation Emerging Artist purposely got rid of all caps gage Store, San Francisco, Museum of Art. She received Museum of Contemporary the Designed Objects de- with a minor in Art History. ing in critical craft theory. Arts Writers Grant. of the studio collective Real Fellow. A full-time faculty in this bio in order to create and Mana Contemporary and her MFA from the University Art, Los Angeles and the partment. Other teaching in- A 2021 Fellowship Artist at Time and Space, in Oakland. member in the Interdisciplin- a minor disruption. Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chica- of Minnesota and her BFA Hammer Museum as part of cludes MIAD, West Virginia KALA Art Institute, she is ary Sculpture department at go, as well as in group exhi- from the School of the Art CamLab, her 14-year collab- University, Oakton College, an Assistant Professor of the Maryland Institute College bitions at the Studio Museum Institute of Chicago. orative practice with Jemima and traditional music and Printmedia, Craft, and Grad- of Art, they hold an MFA in in Harlem and Socrates Wyman. Mayer is an Assis- harmony singing at the Au- uate Fine Arts at California Printmaking from the Univer- Sculpture Park, New York; tant Professor of Sculpture gusta Heritage Center and College of the Arts. sity of Tennessee, Knoxville the Art Institute of Chicago; at the University of Houston, in private workshops. The and a BFA from Florida State Elmhurst Art Museum, Illi- where she oversees the recipient of multiple grants University. nois; and the Craft and Folk Ceramics program. and awards, including a PAGE 24 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

Headshot of Aay Preston-Myint by Ryan Edmund Thiel; Photo courtesy of the artist (x5) Headshot of Ato Ribeiro by Gioncarlo Valentine; Photo courtesy of the artist (x4) Studio Museum in Harlem, Galleries, Chicago, among with honors from ENPEG La incorporates archival of Chicago, including Animal New York; the Andy Warhol other venues. She teaches Esmeralda, Mexico City. research with time-based Behavior, Evolutionary Mam- Museum, Pittsburgh; ONE at Lillstreet Art Center and media and printmaking to malogy, Ecology (Natural National Gay and Lesbian the Chicago Ceramic Center, articulate new perspectives History), and Human Anat- Archives at the University of and works as an elementary on ecological issues. Teed omy and Physiology. Her Southern California Libraries, school art teacher. Weldon has exhibited in the United primary research has been Los Angeles; Subliminal earned her MFA from States and abroad, and re- at the community level of

Projects, Los Angeles; Te Kendall College of Art and cently attended residencies organization, focusing on the SUMMER 2021 Ato Ribeiro is a multidisci- Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Design and her BFA from the An artist based in Queens, Originally from Edinburgh, at ACRE, Signal Fire, Virginia Dario Robleto is a transdis- New Orleans–based artist feeding strategies and preda- plinary artist working in a Auckland, New Zealand; and School of the Art Institute of New York, Christine Wong Scotland, and now based Center for Creative Arts, and ciplinary artist, citizen-sci- Devin Balara’s recent work tion of tree and ground squir- variety of media, including Proyecto’ace, Buenos Aires. Chicago, where she received Christopher Meerdo’s Yap uses social practice, in Chicago, Claire Ashley PLAYA. They now teach in entist, researcher, writer, utilizes steel as a drawing rels based on their functional sculptural installation, Moor has been awarded the James Nelson Raymond research is primarily drawing, printmaking, investigates inflatables as the Art Department at the and teacher. Tapping into material to depict cartoon- morphology. Observational drawing, and printmaking. artists’ residencies at Rogers Fellowship. invested in exploring hidden and publishing to explore painting, sculpture, installa- University of Minnesota. multiple creative traditions, ish scenes inspired by data collected on nocturnal He currently works between Art Loft, the Center for Book and inaccessible archives. dimensions of psycholog- tion, and performance cos- They received an MFA from ranging from astrophysics to bad omens, supernatural foraging of the eastern cot- Atlanta, Georgia, and Accra, and Paper Arts, Hyde Park Through expanded-pho- ical well-being, such as tume. Her works have been the University of Iowa and a paleontology to poetry to DJ moments, desert island tontail rabbit was published Ghana. His work has been Art Center, Proyecto’ace, tographic methodologies belonging, interdependence, exhibited nationally and BA from Brown University. culture, his work has focused logic, and the outdoors as recently. All of these animals 27 exhibited at venues including Auckland Print Studio, of data processing, image and collaboration. Born internationally in galleries, with particular intensity on both unruly and picturesque. are found throughout the Oglethorpe University, Women’s Studio Workshop, synthesis, and computa- in California, she was a museums, and site-specific theories and practices of re- Her work has recently been Ox-Bow region and offer Dr. Brookhaven, Georgia; Lisa Blue Mountain Center, the tional sculpture, his work longtime resident of Oakland installations, performances, cording and on the material exhibited at Comfort Station, Jedlicka’s students ample Sette Gallery, Phoenix; Vermont Studio Center, considers the ways in which before relocating to Queens and collaborations. Her and emotional structures Chicago; Ortega y Gasset opportunity for scientific Nubuke Foundation, Accra; and Atlantic Center for the technological and visual in 2010. She partners with work has also been featured of intergenerational relay Projects, New York; Grounds observations. Dr. Jedlicka Cranbrook Art Museum, Arts, where she worked with Currently based in Chicago, systems maintain or subvert organizations to conduct par- on blogs such as Vice, and memory. In 2015, he For Sculpture, Hamilton, has also presented and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Master Artist Kerry James Cecilia Beaven explores nar- structures of power. Recent ticipatory research projects Hyperallergic, and Artforum, joined a distinguished team New Jersey; Spring/Break published articles on new the N’Namdi Center for Marshall. rative and develops a specu- exhibitions include shows whose outcomes include and in publications including of scientists as the artistic Art Show NYC; and DEMO teaching methods and labs Contemporary Art, Detroit; lative mythology through at Exgirlfriend, Berlin; the site-specific public artworks, Sculpture, Art Papers, the Danny Miller is an artist and consultant to Breakthrough Project, Springfield, Illinois. in the college classroom. the Rozsa Center for the painting, drawing, comics, Museum of Contemporary zines, and books. Her recent Boston Globe, the Chicago musician working in Chi- Message, a multinational In 2014, Balara received Performing Arts, Houghton, animation, and sculpture. Photography, Chicago; Wil- exhibitions include Between Tribune, Time Out Chicago, cago. Utilizing woodblock, effort that aims to encourage the Sculpture magazine Michigan; and Anastasia She questions who gets to fried Lentz Rotterdam; the You and Me, curated by the Yorkshire Post, and lithographic printing, and intellectual and technical Outstanding Student Tinari Projects, Chicago. establish the official cultural National Gallery of Kosovo, Shannon R. Stratton, at the Condé Nast Traveler. Ashley drawing, he conjures works debate about how and what Achievement in Contem- The winner of the 2017 narratives, and affirms her Pristina; and the Mattress John Michael Kohler Arts teaches at the School of inspired by pulp science to communicate in the event porary Sculpture Award. Mercedes-Benz Financial creative agency by modifying Factory, Pittsburgh. He was Center, Sheboygan, Wis- the Art Institute of Chicago, fiction covers, Victorian that the current search for She has been an Art- Services Emerging Artist existing tales and mythology, an Artist-in-Residence at the consin. Yap has completed in the departments of engravings, advertisements, intelligent life beyond Earth ist-in-Residence at Monson Award, Ribeiro has been an Originally from Bessemer, seamlessly adding fiction SIM program in Reykjavik over a dozen residencies, Contemporary Practices and comic books, and music. is successful. In 2016, he Arts, Elsewhere museum Artist-in-Residence at Kün- Alabama, and now based and personal anecdotes. and the Skowhegan School including Workspace at the Painting and Drawing. She Miller has taught at the Ohio was appointed as the Texas and artists’ residency, the stlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, in Chicago, Casey Elizabeth Beaven’s multidisciplinary of Painting and Sculpture. Lower Manhattan Cultural received her MFA from SAIC State University, the Univer- State Artist Laureate. In Vermont Studio Center, and and received fellowships to Weldon creates work artwork has been shown in Most recently, he was a Council and the Othering and her BFA from Gray’s sity of Wisconsin–Madison, 2020, he was a research the Wassaic Project. Balara the Vermont Studio Center, spanning ceramic sculpture, solo exhibitions in Mexico 2018–2019 Fellow of the Jan and Belonging Institute at School of Art, Aberdeen, the School of the Art Institute consultant to the popular spends summers managing

the Studios at MASS MoCA, manipulated found objects, City, Houston, and Chicago, van Eyck Academie, Nether- the University of California, Scotland. of Chicago, and Ox-Bow, and science television series Cos- the sculpture studio at Ox- FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER and the Skowhegan School drawings, and paintings as well as in group exhibi- lands. Meerdo taught at the Berkeley. In 2021, she will has been the Printmedia De- mos: Possible Worlds, which Bow. Originally hailing from of Painting and Sculpture. made from various shades of tions in Mexico, the United School of the Art Institute of be a Municipal Artist-in-Res- Corinne Teed is a re- partment Manager at SAIC aired on National Geographic Tampa, she holds a BFA

soil. Her practice examines States, Colombia, Sweden, Chicago from 2012 to 2019 idence with the City of search-based artist working for 32 years. He has worked and Fox. He is currently from the University of North Ayanah Moor is an interdisci- human and animal behavior Italy, and Japan. In 2019, and was recently appointed Berkeley via Kala Art Insti- in printmaking, installation, in professional print shops serving as Artist-at-Large at Florida and an MFA in Sculp- Ekin Deniz Aytac and Joshua plinary artist whose practice while balancing the similari- she was awarded the Leroy tenure-track Assistant Pro- tute’s Print Public program. time-based media, and including Landfall Press, Northwestern University’s ture from Indiana University Davids are a husband- explores Blackness, gender, ties and differences between Neiman Foundation Fellow- fessor of Photography and She holds an MFA and a BFA social practice. Their work Normal Editions Workshop, McCormick School of Engi- Bloomington. and-wife team of artists desire, and language. She wild and domestic life. ship at Ox-Bow. In 2020, New Media at the University from the California College of lives at the intersections and Four Brothers Press, neering and Block Museum working in glass. Hailing works across various media Weldon compares human she was invited as a resident of North Texas. He received the Arts. of queer theory, ecology, in addition to playing and of Art. from Edremit, Turkey, and to create paintings, prints, social constructs to other at the Mono Rojo ceramics his MFA in Photography from critical animal studies, and teaching traditional fiddle Colorado, US, respectively, drawings, and performance. behavior found in nature to workshop in Mexico City. A the University of Illinois at settler colonial studies. Teed and banjo music at the Old this dynamic duo draws from Her work has been exhibited create nonlinear narratives current Radicle Studio Res- Chicago. He is represented collaboratively reimagines Town School of Folk Music, a distinctive combination at the Museum of Contem- that oscillate between beau- ident at Hyde Park Art Cen- by Document, Chicago. interspecies communities Chicago, for 11 years. He of culture, heritage, and porary Art Chicago, the Mu- tiful and unsettling. She has ter, Beaven holds an MFA in this era of environmental received his MFA from UW– experience to elicit profound seum of Contemporary Pho- exhibited her work at the Fed in Studio from the School of devastation and climate Madison. expression in new works tography, and the DePaul Art Galleries at KCAD, Grand the Art Institute of Chicago, change. Working between Dr. Dianne Jedlicka teaches of glass art. They have Museum, Chicago; Adobe Rapids, Michigan, and Wom- which she attended as a portraiture and speculative numerous biology courses at lived, traveled, and created Books, San Francisco; the an Made Gallery and Sullivan Fulbright Scholar, and a BFA world-building, their practice the School of the Art Institute artwork together since 2014. PAGE 26 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

Photo courtesy of the artist (x5) Photo courtesy of the artist (x7) Their signature body of work, of this thinking and feeling. Fellows cohort to work with an emphasis on empathy, identity—as a woman, as Box, Bourges, France; POOL, eight large color composi- Cityscapes, is a sculptural Bright has exhibited widely poet and mentor Pamela transcendence, and obsessive a Chinese woman, as an Johannesburg; and the tions form a portrait of the exploration offering reflec- in the United States and Sneed. In 2016, Cardwell detail. He frequently works “American,” as a third-culture Drake, Toronto. Bolen serves garden—itself an abstrac- tions on the nature of self internationally. Currently, received her MFA in Writing collaboratively with musicians, kid. Datchuk received the as Assistant Professor of tion—from monochrome as it relates to the places she is an Artist-in-Residence from Sarah Lawrence theater performers, other art- 2017 Emerging Voices Award Photography at Georgia State macro photographs of plants and things that shape our at Cranbrook Academy of College. Currently, she ists, and activist campaigns. from the American Craft University and is a co-founder taken over the course of a experience. Drawing on both Art, where she heads the teaches writing and social He is a founding member of Council and in 2020 was and co-organizer of the Deep year. As founder of Chicago

modern and ancient mythoi graduate program in Print justice at the New School. er- the international Justseeds named a United States Artist Time Chicago collective. He Architectural Arts, Hormuth SUMMER 2021 as well as meditations on the Media. She holds a Master of ica-cardwell.com Artists’ Cooperative and Originally from Youngstown, Jeanine Coupe Ryding’s work Fellow in Craft. An Assistant is represented by Andrew Jessica Gatlin is an artist, focuses on the restoration causal relationship between Education from the Harvard co-author, with Cindy Milstein, Ohio, Jaclyn Silverman focuses primarily on woodcut Professor of Art at Texas State Rafacz, Chicago. maker, and part-time of significant interiors; most set and setting, the artists Graduate School of Educa- of the book Paths toward is a photographer who prints, etchings, artist’s books, University, she holds an MFA sorceress currently based recently, she researched and weave a new visual tapestry tion, an MFA from Cranbrook Utopia: Graphic Explorations collaborates on expanded collage, and painting. Her in Artisanry from the Univer- in Baltimore. Gatlin exhibits re-created interior finishes of form, light, and color. Academy of Art, and a of Everyday Anarchism (PM intergenerational family prints and artist’s books are in sity of Massachusetts Dart- her work widely, including for the Darwin Martin House, Glass is a unique medium BA in Art History from the Press). Current projects histories through educational museum, corporate, and pri- mouth and a BFA in Crafts recent shows at Coop Gallery, Frank Lloyd Wright’s largest owing to its elemental University of Chicago. She is include the Ominous Cloud community programming, vate collections in the United from Kent State University. Nashville, and the Robert Prairie-style complex, and nature and inherent optic represented by David Klein Ensemble, an ever-evolving, historic processes, and analog States, Europe, and Japan, F. Agrella Art Gallery, Santa worked on the restoration of 29 qualities, such as refraction, Gallery, Detroit. collectively improvising large photography. Silverman and she founded Shadow Rosa, California. She has also Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s dispersion, transmission, Eric May is a Chicago- ensemble for projections and has been a Lecturer in Press and Press 928 in Evan- participated in several artist Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. and reflectivity, which speak land-based parent, chef, music, which includes or has Photography at the Ohio ston, Illinois, for the purpose Jessee Rose Crane is a residencies and fellowships, She is represented by Kusse- directly to the movement and artist. He cooked for included members of the Sun State University and a Visiting of fine art publishing. She multidisciplinary sculptor, arts including Ox-Bow, ACRE, and neers Gallery, Brussels. of light within a material. In Ox-Bow for 15 years, running Ra Arkestra, Bardo Pond, and Artist at Grenfell Campus, has received an Illinois Arts administrator, and musician the Eugeniusz Geppert Acad- this series, traditional vessel the kitchen for 11 of those Espers. Memorial University of Council award; an Arts Mid- based in New Douglas, emy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, forms are manipulated into years. May is the founder and Newfoundland, and Theaster west grant; two residencies Illinois. Her approach to Poland. In 2019, she served unconventional objects that Director of Roots and Culture, Gates commissioned her at Frans Masereel Centrum, Jeremy Bolen is an artist sculpture joins technical as the Hamblet Artist-in are evocative of landscapes a nonprofit contemporary art to make photographic installa- Belgium; Roger Brown Resi- researcher, organizer, and skills with a creative process Residence at Vanderbilt Uni- viewed from an unfamiliar Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, center in Chicago’s Noble tions published in conjunction dencies in Michigan; and an educator who lives and works that encourages play and versity. Gatlin recently joined perspective. A variety of critic, and educator based Square neighborhood. He has with the exhibition A Johnson Anchor Graphics residency in between Chicago and Atlanta. embraces art in the everyday. the faculty at the University of hot glass color applica- in Brooklyn. She often writes exhibited work and hosted Publishing Story at Stony Chicago. Ryding taught at the He is interested in site-spe- Her practice combines steel Maryland, as Assistant Profes- tions, along with diamond about print, archival media, events at the Museum of Island Arts Bank, Chicago. School of the Art Institute of cific, experimental modes with a variety of media to craft sor of Print and Extended Josh Dihle’s recent work mixes cutting and sand engraving, visual culture, and inter- Contemporary Art Chicago, Collaboratively, Silverman Chicago from 1991 to 2019. of documentation and presen- both functional objects and Media. She received her MFA painting, wood carving, and coalesce to represent the disciplinary performance; the Hyde Park Art Center, Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is worked with the Design She received her Master’s in tation. Much of Bolen’s work conceptual experimentations in Printmaking from the Uni- furniture construction to lo- visual rhythms of a world we she centers Black feminist DePaul Art Museum, and interdisciplinary, spanning Museum of Chicago for the Sculpture from the Universität involves rethinking systems used in exhibitions, videos, versity of Tennessee, Knoxville cate an interchange between inhabit together. theory as her primary critical Three Walls, Chicago, and the sculpture and installation, and public art piece Postcards to der Künste Berlin and her BA of recording, in an attempt and live performances with and her BFA in Studio Art touch, vision, ecology, and approach. Cardwell is deeply Charlotte Street Foundation, grounded in video. Her work Chicago, runs the East Side in Literature and Fine Art from to observe invisible traces of her band Glow in the Dark from Florida State University. unprocessed psychic energy. fascinated with the imagi- Kansas City, Missouri. He confronts the contradictions Volume One photo collective the University of Iowa. various scientific experiments Flowers. In her most recent His work has been shown nations of people of color, received an MFA from North- of the American Dream: the with George Washington High and human interactions sculptural work, she fabri- in exhibitions at venues as a tool for social, spiritual, western University. ever-unreliable notion that School on the far southeast with the earth’s surface. His cates steel armatures to prop including Andrew Rafacz,

and collective movement. hard work will lead to upward side of Chicago, and partic- work has been exhibited at up large, vivid, curtain-like 4th Ward Project Space, FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER Her work has appeared mobility and economic ipates in Loyola University’s numerous locations, including membranes made from glue Carrie Secrist Gallery, Shane in Bomb, The Believer, The freedom. She has exhibited School Partnership Program the Museum of Contemporary and food coloring. Crane is Campbell Gallery, Valerie

Brooklyn Rail, frieze, Hyper- throughout the United States with Sullivan High School Photography, Andrew Rafacz, the Director of Rose Raft, Carberry Gallery, and Adult Detroit-based artist Emmy allergic, Green Mountains and Europe, with solo exhi- in Rogers Park. She is the Soccer Club Club, Gallery an artists’ and musicians’ Contemporary, Chicago, and Bright works in drawing, writ- Review, Passages North, and bitions at 80WSE Gallery, the founding Artistic Director 400, DePaul Art Museum, residency founded in 2015. Jo Hormuth is a multidisci- Elmhurst Art Museum, Illinois; ing, print, and performance. other publications. Her Museum of Arts and Design, of the Chicago nonprofit Jennifer Ling Datchuk is a and Hyde Park Art Center, She received her MFA from plinary artist whose ideas Essex Flowers, Flyweight, Her projects investigate the memoir was named a finalist and Larrie, New York. She artists’ residency CPS Lives, multidisciplinary artist based Chicago; the University at Southern Illinois University spring from a fascination and DUTTON, New York; the problems of empathy and for the 2020 Graywolf Erik Ruin is a Michigan-raised, has also exhibited at venues a part-time Professor of Arts in San Antonio, Texas. Trained Buffalo; Salon Zürcher, New Edwardsville and her BFA with perceptual, cognitive, University of Maine Museum the problems of boundar- Press Nonfiction Prize, Philadelphia-based print- including Abrons Art Center, and Humanities with the City in ceramics, she works with York; I.D.E.A. Space, Colorado from the School of the Art and linguistic contradictions, of Art, Bangor; Champi- ies. Her work asks: How and she has been awarded maker, shadow puppeteer, the Jewish Museum, Sculp- Colleges of Chicago, and porcelain and other materials Springs; the Mission, Hous- Institute of Chicago. backed by research into the on Gallery, Austin, Texas; do we be there for each residencies and fellowships paper-cut artist, etc., who has tureCenter, and the Whitney faculty at Ox-Bow. Silverman often associated with tradi- ton; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; architecture, history, and Pleasant Plains, Washington, other? For ourselves? And from the Lambda Literary been lauded by the New York Museum of American Art, received her MFA from the tional women’s work, such as Newspace Center for Pho- material conditions of the DC; and Annarumma Gallery, where is this “there” we’re Foundation, Vermont Studio Times for his “spellbinding New York, and the de Young, School of the Art Institute of textiles and hair, to investigate tography, Portland, Oregon; context in which a work will Naples, Italy. His work has all talking about? She looks Center, and Banff Centre for cut-paper animations.” His San Francisco. She holds Chicago and her BFA from fragility, beauty, femininity, Haus der Kulturen der Welt be developed and shown. Her appeared in New American to psychology, art history, Arts and Creativity. Recently, work oscillates between the an MFA in New Genres from the Ohio State University. intersectionality, identity, and and Exgirlfriend, Berlin; PACT latest public project is Better Paintings and Chicago Artist comedy, and lots of lists and she was invited to join poles of apocalyptic anxieties Columbia University and a BA personal history. Her work is Zollverein, Essen, Germany; Grammar–Garden, for the Writers. He has been an diagrams to figure out all the Queer Art Mentorship and utopian yearnings, with from Yale University. an exploration of her layered Galerie Zürcher, Paris; La Chicago Botanic Garden. The Artist-in-Residence at Krems, PAGE 28 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

Headshot of Jo Hormuth by Jorge Colombo ; Photo courtesy of the artist (x4) Photo courtesy of the artist (x5) Austria, as well as the Catwalk of Chicago and a BFA from Painting and Sculpture in particular interest in fractures (Schiffer) and Encaustic festivals around the world. video, new media, and text. Des Plaines, Illinois; Elmhurst Art Residency, the Vermont the Maryland Institute College 2017 and the Vermont Studio within those systems. Recent Art: The Complete Guide to Since 2010, Gregory has lived Through an autobiographical Art Museum, Illinois; and Studio Center, and Ox-Bow. A of Art, she has also studied Center as a Fellow in 2018. work investigates the lasting Creating Fine Art with Wax and worked in New York City, methodology, their work Artemisia Gallery and Gallery co-founder of Barely Fair and at the Skowhegan School of Their first monograph,Some impact of Soviet occupation (Watson-Guptill). A Professor where she teaches painting rethinks history to identify the 312, Chicago. She has Co-Director of Julius Caesar Painting and Sculpture. Kind of Duty, is available for on both tangible and invisible in the Art discipline at the and animation at Parsons fictions that govern contem- received awards from the City gallery, both in Chicago, he purchase at the DePaul Art spaces. Paabus has exhibited University of Wisconsin– School of Design. porary life, considering issues of Chicago, Seoul Foundation holds an MFA from the School Kevin McCoy is an artist and Museum and on Amazon. throughout the United States, Green Bay, Deetz frequently of institutional access, incar- for Arts and Culture, and Arts

of the Art Institute of Chicago designer based in Saint Louis. karolinagnatowski.com Europe, and China, and serves as a visiting artist and ceration, and how images of Council Korea. Hyon is an Ad- SUMMER 2021 and a BA from Middlebury He and his wife co-founded her work can be found in has led numerous paint- Based in Philadelphia, Megan Melissa Leandro lives and marginalized people are cir- junct Associate Professor in College. WORK/PLAY, which utilizes Krista Franklin is an interdis- numerous collections. Recent ing/drawing workshops at Biddle is an interdisciplinary works in Chicago. She has culated and controlled. Their the Printmedia department at serigraphs, handmade publi- ciplinary artist whose work exhibitions include Mean- venues including Haystack artist whose work orbits be- had recent solo exhibitions works have been exhibited at the School of the Art Institute cations, installations, archival appears in Poetry magazine, while, Hobusepea Galerii, Mountain School of Crafts, tween sculpture, printmaking, at Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; EXPO Chicago; Andrew Ra- of Chicago, from which she documents, and video-based Black Camera, Copper Tallinn, Estonia; NEO Geo, Penland School of Craft, and drawing. Rooted in glass, Frieze New York; the Universi- facz, Chicago; and Prizm Art earned her MFA and BFA. works to examine erasure Nickel, Callaloo, Vinyl, Akron Art Museum, Ohio; and Anderson Ranch Arts Center, she produces experiment- ty Club of Chicago; the Union Fair, Miami. Their time-based She also holds an Associate and identity and challenge Bomb magazine, Encyclo- the Novosibirsk International Arrowmont School of Arts Leslie Wilson’s research and process-driven work with League Club of Chicago; works have premiered at the of the Ontario College of Arts historical records. Recent pedia Volume II, F–K and Triennial of Contemporary and Crafts, and Ox-Bow. In focuses on the global history an emphasis on materials Rockford University, Illinois; San Francisco Museum of and Design. 31 exhibitions include Small Volume III, L–Z, and several Graphic Arts, Russia. She has addition to the 2011 UW– of photography, modern and and their distinct charac- and the Wright Museum of Modern Art; Artists’ Television Talk, Crystal Bridges Museum anthologies. Her art has received a Fulbright grant Green Bay Founders Award contemporary arts of Africa teristics. As an observer of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin. Recent Access, San Francisco; the Nicole Seisler is a Los Ange- Born and raised in New Delhi, of American Art, Bentonville, been exhibited at the Poetry for installation art in Estonia, for Excellence in Scholar- and the African diaspora, nature, she responds to the group exhibitions include New York Queer Experimental les-based ceramic artist who India, and now based in Arkansas, and Overview Is a Foundation, Chicago Cultural the Grant Wood Fellowship in ship, she received the 2016 modern and contemporary elusive and subtle, reflecting shows at the DePaul Art Film Festival; and Defibrillator creates sculpture, installation, Brooklyn, Kaveri Raina makes Place, SPRING/BREAK Art Center, National Museum Printmaking at the University SECAC Award for Excellence American art, and museum on variations of time and Museum and the Arts Club Gallery, Chicago. Luna was a and public art that investigate paintings based on internal Show, New York. Recent book of Mexican Art, Rootwork of Iowa, the Ohio Arts Council in Teaching and a Graphis and curatorial studies. She is cycles of growth and erosion. of Chicago. Leandro was 2018 Art Matters Founda- time, materiality, process, and dialogues, with words that fairs include Printed Matter’s Gallery, and Museum of Individual Excellence Award, Design Annual 2015 Silver an Assistant Professor of Art She has exhibited nationally awarded the 2020 Illinois tion fellowship recipient, the overlapping roles of artist/ trigger a feeling or an experi- LA Art Book Fair; the Chicago Contemporary Photography, and the Southern Graphics Award. Recently, she served History at SUNY Purchase, and internationally, and her Arts Council Fellowship in 2018–2019 BOLT Resident at viewer/participant/collabora- ence. The sensation of hov- Art Book Fair; the Small Chicago; the Studio Museum Council International Resi- as Erasmus Visiting Lecturer where her current book proj- work is part of the American Crafts, the 2019 Windgate the Chicago Artists Coalition, tor. Nicole received her MFA ering, lingering, or swaying in Press Expo, Saint Louis; Fully in Harlem, New York; and dency Award. Paabus has at the University of Kassel, ect charts the development Embassy’s permanent col- Fellowship, the 2017 Toby and 2017 SOMA Summer from the School of the Art a state of flux or suspension Booked, Dubai; and Booklyn’s Konsthall C, Stockholm; and attended artists’ residencies Germany, and Artist-in Resi- and popularization of color lection in Riga, Latvia. Biddle Devan Lewis Fellowship at the participant in Mexico City, and Institute of Chicago and her is a common theme. Raina’s Engaged Editions: Creative on the set of 20th Century in the United States, Iceland, dence at the Burren College photography in South Africa. has attended residencies at School of the Art Institute of is currently a Film Fellow in BFA from the School of the work extends to deeper Advocacy in Print, New York. Fox’s Empire. The author Estonia, Romania, Russia, of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland. She has recently written for MacDowell, the Jentel Artist Chicago, and the 2017 Lumi- the Queer|Art|Mentorship pro- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. psychological moments with He received an MFA from the of Under the Knife (Candor and China. An Associate Pro- publications including Foam, Residency, the Creative Glass narts Cultural Foundation Fel- gram. An Assistant Professor She has exhibited widely at the self, wandering into the Sam Fox School of Design Arts) and Study of Love & fessor of Reproducible Media Queens-based and Tennes- on Luther Konadu, and Center of America at Whea- lowship. A 2017–2018 BOLT of Contemporary Art Practice museums ranging from the idea of what could have been, and Visual Arts at Washington Black Body (Willow Books), at Oberlin College, she earned see-raised, Lauren Gregory Manual, on Aïda Muluneh, tonArts, Sculpture Space, the Resident at the Chicago Artist and an AICAD Post-Graduate Museum of Contemporary and a few chosen memories University in St. Louis. she is also one of the main her MFA from the School of is a painter, animator, and and she interviewed Larry Virginia Center for Creative Coalition, she has also attend- Teaching Fellow at Parsons Photography in Chicago and shared with others along the characters in Les Impatients, the Art Institute of Chicago music video director. A W. Cook for Weiss Berlin. Arts, Pilchuck Glass School, ed residencies at the Vermont School of Design, they the Museum of Fine arts in way. Raina has exhibited in Born in Poland and now a film-essay by Aliocha Imhoff and her BFA from the Rhode third-generation southern From 2019 to 2021, she was Haystack Mountain School Studio Center, Atlantic Center received an MFA in Perfor- Tallahassee to the Museum of the United States, India, and based in Chicago, kg teaches and Kantuta Quiros. Franklin Island School of Design. female painter, she began by a Curatorial Fellow at the of Crafts, the Massachusetts for the Arts, the Ragdale mance from the School of the Fine Arts in Boston and Craft Europe. She had her first at the School of the Art Insti- teaches writing at the School following in her mother’s and Smart Museum of Art at the Museum of Contemporary Foundation, ACRE, the Roger Art Institute of Chicago and Contemporary in Los Angeles.

international solo exhibition in tute of Chicago. Recent solo of the Art Institute of Chicago. grandmother’s footsteps, often University of Chicago, and Art, and North Land Creative, Brown House, the Weaving a BFA in Textiles and Media Nicole has taught ceramics at FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER 2019 at Annarumma Gallery, exhibitions include Blue Out She holds an MFA in Inter- painting friends and family from 2015 to 2017, she held Scotland. She has taught at Mill, the Jacquard Center, and Arts from California College of the School of the Art Institute Naples, Italy; that same year, Of My Mouth at Free Range disciplinary Book and Paper in quick one-sitting sessions. a predoctoral fellowship at the Haystack, Pilchuck Glass TextielLab, Netherlands. She the Arts. of Chicago, the University

she had a solo show at As- Gallery, Chicago; Changeling Arts from Columbia College Since she earned her MFA Center for Advanced Study School, UrbanGlass, and Ox- received both her MFA and of Washington, University of sembly Room and exhibited at Julius Caesar, Chicago; and Chicago. from the School of the Art in the Visual Arts. She holds Bow, and currently teaches in BFA from SAIC. California Los Angeles, and at Luhring Augustine, both in Alter at Terrain Exhibitions, Institute of Chicago in 2009, a PhD in Art History from the the Glass Program at the Tyler she was the Lincoln Visiting New York. Raina has received Oak Park, Illinois. In January Gregory’s work has developed University of Chicago and a School of Art and Architec- Professor of Ceramics at various awards and fellow- 2019, kg hung a solo exhibi- Kristy Deetz’s extensive into oil-paint stop-motion BA in International Relations ture. She is a Co-Director Scripps College. Nicole is the ships, including the James tion, Some Kind of Duty, of exhibition record includes animations—moving paintings from Wellesley College. and member of the Tiger Director of the Los Angeles Nelson Raymond Fellowship woven works at the DePaul national and international in which thick impasto strokes Strikes Asteroid gallery, in contemporary ceramics and the Fred and Joanna Art Museum, which included venues. With Reni Gower, appear to move before the Philadelphia. gallery A-B Projects. Lazarus Scholarship, and a participatory badminton she co-curated FABRICation, viewer’s eyes—and music Myungah Hyon has exhibited was recently nominated for field made in collaboration which traveled to art muse- videos for international acts. her work at venues including the Joan Mitchell Foundation with artist Betsy Odom. Kristina Paabus is a multi- ums, university art galleries, Her animations have been Mev Luna is an interdisciplin- Printed Matter, New York; Painters and Sculptors Grant. Upcoming shows include the disciplinary visual artist with and art centers. Her paintings screened at MoMA PS1, the ary artist currently based in Kookmin Art Gallery and The recipient of an MFA in group show I Am I Said at a focus in printmaking. Her have been featured in books New Museum, the Museum New York, whose re- Gallery Factory, Seoul; Painting and Drawing from Carthage College. Kg attended research examines structures including Encaustic Art in of Contemporary Art, Los An- search-based practice spans Riverside Arts Center, Illinois; the School of the Art Institute the Skowhegan School of of control and power, with a the Twenty-First Century geles, and museums and film performance, installation, William A. Koehnline Gallery, PAGE 30 PAGE OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

Photo courtesy of the artist (x6) Photo courtesy of the artist (x3 of Arts and Design, New Museum of Art, Ohio; and native of mixed Indigenous handmade objects with digital at Pilchuck Glass School Clinic, the Pérez Art Museum York. He has served as an the Arts Club of Chicago, the Hawaiian, Mexican, Irish, and ones, questioning how we and a Fellow at the Creative Miami, and the Art Institute Artist-in-Residence with the Chicago Artists Coalition, and Punjabi heritage. The “Dainty occupy physical and digital Glass Center of America at of Chicago. He has received City of Boston; the Harvard Western Exhibitions, Chicago. Satanist,” as described by space. A co-founder of Bee WheatonArts. She has also awards from the Louis Com- Ceramics Program, Office of Their work has been featured Vaginal Davis, has exhibited Kingdom Glass studio, he also been an Artist-in-Residence fort Tiffany Foundation and the Arts at Harvard University; in solo shows at the Arts Club extensively in Berlin, where assisted in launching Berlin at the Massachusetts Muse- Artadia. and the Kohler Arts/Industry of Chicago and MCA Chicago they lived for six years, most Glas e.V. and has worked for um of Contemporary Art and

program. Jiménez-Flores has and was recently included in notably at September Gallery, Ox-Bow and UrbanGlass, the STARworks Glass Lab, SUMMER 2021 Born in San Juan, Puerto received the Joan Mitchell the book Weather as Medi- Kunstraum Bethanien, The founder of and Master New York. His work has been North Carolina. Ahmadiza- Rico, and based in Brooklyn, Ruby T’s work is an experi- Foundation Painters and um: Toward a Meteorological and the Schwules Muse- Printer at Hummingbird exhibited at the Cheongju deh Melendez is currently a Nora Maité Nieves is interest- ment in translating fantasy Sculptors Grant as well as a Art (Leonardo), by Janine um. Hanley approaches Press Editions, Thomas Lucas Craft Biennale, South Korea; faculty member in Glass at ed in the expanded dialogue to reality, and she is fueled grant from the New England Randerson. sensorial boundaries through has published such artists the Pergamonmuseum, the Tyler School of Art and of painting. Her paintings, by anger, desire, and magic. Foundation for the Arts. He playgrounds of morality as Kerry James Marshall, Berlin; and the Pictoplasma Architecture, from which she drawings, and sculptures Named a 2018 Breakout is an Assistant Professor in Snow Yunxue Fu is a New and formative imagination, William Conger, Richard festival, Monterrey, Mexico. received her BFA in Glass. explore how we define space Artist by Newcity, she has had Ceramics at the School of the York–based international new in works that grapple with Hunt, Willie Cole, Barbara He has attended residencies She holds an MFA in Craft/ through domestic owner- solo and two-person exhibi- Art Institute of Chicago. media artist, curator, and aspects of domesticity, Jones-Hogu, Jean Matulka, at the Europees Keramisch Material Studies from Virginia 33 ship, making reference to tions at Western Exhibitions, Assistant Arts Professor in the trauma, and fetish. Their and Candida Alvarez. He has Werkcentrum, Netherlands; Commonwealth University. ornamental details from Roots and Culture, and the Department of Photography work delineates spaces both shown his work in solo and California State University, architecture, especially floor Back Room at Kim’s Corner and Imaging at New York Uni- sacred and profane while group exhibitions at Chicago Fullerton; and Casa Lü, Mexi- and wall surfaces and tiles. Food, Chicago, and Randy Al- versity’s Tisch School of the creating a ritualized sacrilege State University and South co City. He earned an MFA in She is drawn to the mystic exander, New York. She holds Arts. She obtained an MFA that emboldens queer agency. Side Community Art Center, Fibers and Material Practices values of objects such as an MFA in Fiber and Material in Studio Art from the School Hanley’s practice incorpo- Chicago; Elmhurst College, Il- from Concordia University, amulets, heirlooms, and jew- Studies from the School of the of the Art Institute of Chicago rates their perspectives as linois; N’Namdi Contemporary Montreal. elry. Recent solo exhibitions Art Institute of Chicago. in 2014. Using topographical an unapologetically queer Miami; and the Art Museum include Full Room in the Sun computer-rendered images humanoid and their religious of Greater Lafayette, Indiana, Room, Fresh Window Gallery, and installations, her practice experiences (specifically, of a as well as in Greece, Israel, Chicago-based artist William New York; Paisaje Lunar, merges historical painterly, failed Mormon-led “sexual re- and Mexico. Lucas has taught J. O’Brien’s idiosyncratic and Flyweight Projects, New York; philosophical, and post-pho- orientation” therapy), together at the Tyler School of Art and exuberant forms are born and Tangible, Hidrante Gal- tographic explorations into the with their navigation as an art- Architecture, the School of out of an improvised and lery, San Juan. Recent group aesthetic and definitive nature ist and educator. Hanley has the Art Institute of Chicago, intuitive studio practice, rich exhibitions include shows at of the sublime. Fu’s artwork exhibited at the Tüyup Fair, the Milwaukee Institute of Art in material experimentation. Embajada, Km0.2, and the has been shown internation- Istanbul; the Jerusalem Artists and Design, Penland School Based in Philadelphia, Victo- Through drawing, painting, Museo de Arte Contemporá- An interdisciplinary artist Sarah Belknap and Joseph ally, at venues including the House; La MaMa Galleria, of Craft, Arrowmont School of ria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is sculpture, and ceramics, neo de Puerto Rico, San born and raised in Jalisco, Belknap are Chicago-based New York Gallery of Chinese New York; and Lodos, Mexico Arts and Crafts, and Ox-Bow, a multidisciplinary artist who O’Brien explores the tradition- Juan; Jessica’s Apartment Mexico, Salvador Jiménez- interdisciplinary artists and Art, Ars Electronica, the City, and is represented by M. and is currently an Assistant combines poetry and prose al and historical application Gallery, Unisex Salon, and Flores explores the politics educators who make art Venice Architecture Biennale, LeBlanc, Chicago. They re- Professor at Chicago State with images and objects to of materials, but also employs Fresh Window, New York; Gal- of identity and the state of that looks at outer space, con- Pioneer Works, Sedition, cently finished two solo shows University. He holds an MFA create layered experienc- play to refute such definitive

leri Thomassen, Gothenburg, double consciousness. He ad- spiracy theories, and physics. the Shenzhen Independent in Chicago, at M. LeBlanc from SAIC and a BFA in Print- es. She views glass as an uses. Inspired by modern- FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER Sweden; the Latino Arts dresses issues of colonization, Working as a team since Animation Biennale, the and the University Club of making from the Tyler School inherently lyrical material, and ism, as well as the history of Gallery, Milwaukee; and the migration, the “other,” and 2008, they have exhibited Current Museum, the Thoma Chicago, and participated in of Art. He is represented utilizes it as a central element material usage of outsider art,

Ukrainian Institute of Modern futurism through a mixture of their art in artist-run exhibition Foundation Art House, and the exhibition Psychic Plumb- by N’Namdi Contemporary, in her work to translate poetic his multidisciplinary practice Art, National Museum of socially conscious installation, spaces in Brooklyn, Detroit, the Wrong Biennale. Her ing at CANARY, Los Angeles, Miami and Detroit. metaphor. Her work has been is a search for identity and Puerto Rican Arts and public, and studio-based art, Minneapolis, Kansas City, work has been collected which was favorably reviewed shown at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, genuine expression through Culture, and Terrain Biennial, spanning drawing, ceramics, Saint Louis, and Springfield, by institutions such as the in Artforum. Denmark; the National material and process. O’Brien Chicago. She has attended prints, and mixed-media Illinois. In addition, they have Current Museum, New York, Glass Centre, Sunderland, has had solo exhibitions at residencies including High sculpture. Jiménez-Flores has presented performances at in- and she remains the youngest England; DOX Centre for venues including Atlanta Concept Labs, the Cooper presented his work at venues stitutions throughout Chicago, artist collected by the National Contemporary Art, Prague; Contemporary; the Madison Union Summer Art Intensive, including the National Muse- including the Chicago Cultural Art Museum of China. Her and UrbanGlass, New York, Museum of Contemporary and ÁREA: Lugar de Proyec- um of Mexican Art, Chicago; Center, Hyde Park Art Center, interviews and reviews have among other venues. She Art, Wisconsin; the Museum tos, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Grand Rapids Art Museum Links Hall, and the Museum appeared in the New York was featured in volumes 33 of Contemporary Art Chicago; Nieves received her MFA from and the Urban Institute for of Contemporary Art (MCA) Times and the Boston Globe, Tim Belliveau is a Canadian and 38 of New Glass Review, and the Nerman Museum of the School of the Art Institute Contemporary Arts, Grand Chicago. Their work has been among other publications. artist and teacher focused on published by the Corning Mu- Contemporary Art, Overland of Chicago and her BFA from Rapids, Michigan; the Bemis shown in group exhibitions at craft and digital technologies seum of Glass. Ahmadizadeh Park, Kansas. His work is the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Center for Contemporary Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute Chicago-based artist Stevie using glass, ceramic, and Melendez was recently an included in the permanent y Diseño, San Juan. Omaha; and the Museum Galleries; the Columbus Cisneros Hanley is a California 3D print. His work combines Emerging Artist-in-Residence collections of the Cleveland PAGE 32 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW COURSES & STUDIOS ACTIVITIES & CAMPUS LIFE POLICIES Courses offer a unique opportunity There are always a number of Admission Policy to build your community by activities to participate in around Ox-Bow reserves the right to deny working closely alongside artists campus after course hours: admission to any individual who has from across the country under •• Visiting Artist, Artist-in- demonstrated a history of behavior the guidance of world-class Residence, and faculty that, in the judgment of Ox-Bow, might instructors. Ox-Bow’s courses are lectures contribute in any way to the disruption of diverse, ranging in focus from • The Crow’s Nest Trail: Hike

• SUMMER 2021 functional to sculptural; from through 115 acres of wooded the educational processes or residential traditional to contemporary; from dunes life on campus. representational to conceptual. •• Canoeing: Explore the lagoon Intensive and immersive one- and and the beach along Lake Companion/Guest Policy two-week courses allow students Michigan No companions, guests, or visitors are to delve deeply into their practices. •• Volleyball on the Meadow permitted during your stay. All residential All studios except glassblowing are •• Relaxing around the campfire housing and studio facilities are limited open 24 hours. Ox-Bow maintains •• Spontaneous evening events to artists enrolled in courses. We may six classroom studios: be able to assist participants in finding 35 MEALS accommodations for individual family •• Thiele Print Studio Students enjoy healthy and circumstances, but these arrangements •• Haas Painting & Drawing delicious meals prepared each will be made on a case-by-case basis and Studio day by our talented kitchen staff. must be determined in advance of your •• Seymour & Esther Padnos Locally sourced ingredients are course or residency. There is no guarantee Metals Studio used as much as possible. Three that alternate accommodations can be •• Krehbiel Ceramics Studio meals per day are included in the established. •• Burke Glass Studio room-and-board fee for students

•• Clute Papermaking Studio residing at Ox-Bow. Our chefs are Suspension & Expulsion Policies happy to accommodate dietary Ox-Bow reserves the right to impose SCHEDULE restrictions; please let the Ox-Bow Classes meet daily and over office know of any food allergies sanctions including suspension and weekend and holidays or special diet requirements upon expulsion, without refund, upon students 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m. check-in. whose behavior, in the judgment of Ox-Bow, contributes in any way to the Day one: Please refer to the Community disruption of the educational processes •• 2–5 p.m. (EST) Arrival for check- COVID-19 Mitigation Guidelines for or residential life on campus. Additional in and on-site paperwork more information on meal service. policies are listed in the Ox-Bow Policy •• 5:30 p.m. Orientation & Procedures Handbook. (SAIC students •• 6 p.m. Dinner HOUSING will be subject to disciplinary procedures • 8 p.m. First class meeting Ox-Bow provides dormitory-style OVERVIEW • and sanctions as outlined in the School housing with shared bathrooms. Frederick Fursman and Walter Clute, two faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Student All students are assigned single- members from the School of the Art Institute of Day two: Handbook.) •• 8:30 am-9:00 am Breakfast occupancy rooms.

Chicago, founded Ox-Bow in 1910. Each summer, FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER •• 9:00 am: Morning all campus LIFE AT artists, students, and educators gather along the Studio Policies orientation COMMUTING STUDENTS lagoon in beautiful Saugatuck, Michigan, located Each studio has specific policies in place

•• 9:30 am: First class meeting (SESSIONS 1, 3 & 5 ONLY) two and a half hours from Chicago. With programs to ensure the safety of students and Commuting is an option for local that cater to degree-seeking students, professional equipment. Additionally, these policies CONTACT INFORMATION residents and students who wish to artists, and those new to the field, Ox-Bow is a ensure that all participants receive a OX-BOW protected place where creative processes break Questions concerning your stay make other housing arrangements. quality education with equal access to down, reform, and mature. At Ox-Bow, we encourage at Ox-Bow (arriving, departing, There are a variety of off-campus faculty and equipment. All studio-specific you to experiment, take risks, be playful, and trust what to bring, travel issues, accommodations (motels, hotels, policies will be explained on the first your instincts; to engage faculty and fellow students etc.) should be directed to inns) located in and around night of classes. Any student found in during course time and in our public spaces; to the Saugatuck office at (269) Saugatuck and Douglas. Both violation of these policies will be asked remain open to new experiences and contribute 857-5811. The Ox-Bow campus is towns are about two miles from to leave the course without refund. These your unique perspective to our vital and historic located at 3435 Rupprecht Way, Ox-Bow and are accessible by car. same policies are applied to any work community. During any given week, you will find: Saugatuck, MI 49453. Questions There are also a number of options regarding class registration and located within walking distance. conducted in the Ox-Bow landscape or payment should be directed Camping is not allowed at Ox- •• Students taking immersive classes on the Ox-Bow grounds. Because Ox-Bow to the Assistant Director of Bow. Meal plans are available for •• Faculty from all over the world is a community, we ask that all students Academic Programs in the commuting students (lunch only, •• Renowned visiting artists, curators, and scholars respect the rights of their classmates and Chicago Administrative Offices at $45; breakfast and lunch, $75; full •• Staff who are all working artists and have active fellow community members by following [email protected]. meal plan, $160). PAGE 34 studio practices our policies. SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

Brandon Dill (x1 BEST PRACTICES WHEN TRAVELING TO tool and equipment sharing, and disinfect public bathrooms and OX-BOW heightened sanitation of high- other high-traffic areas twice daily. Please note that all students are traffic areas. •• DIY cleaning kits will be available responsible for arranging their own •• Only Ox-Bow faculty, staff, and in common areas of all dorms, travel to and from campus. students in a given workshop/ in all cabins, and in all studios. •• Drive, using a personal or rented class will enter designated studios/ Housekeeping staff will replenish vehicle if possible. Enterprise, classrooms. these kits as necessary. All Avis, Hertz, and Budget all have •• Whenever possible, workshops and community members will be SUMMER 2021 locations in Holland, Michigan, an events will take place in sheltered expected to pitch in to keep approximately 20-minute drive from outdoor/open-air spaces for themselves and their spaces clean. campus. Check with the individual maximum ventilation. •• All public bathrooms are equipped agency to see if they accept vehicle •• We will ensure that windows and with paper towel dispensers. drop-offs. Ox-Bow will coordinate doors with screens remain open •• Hand sanitizer dispensers are pickup from the rental drop-off as much as possible, keep fans available in high-traffic areas. point for residential students only. running, and maximize airflow and •• If using public transportation, use ventilation. IN CASE OF ILLNESS Amtrak. Ox-Bow will coordinate •• In the warmer months, two •• All community members will be pickup from the train station for 20-by-40-foot open-air tents on 37 asked to familiarize themselves residential students only. the Meadow facilitate outdoor with COVID symptoms; we will make •• Wear cloth face coverings/masks gatherings. this information available through while traveling. •• No groups larger than 20 people will orientations, as well as postings on gather outdoors. our website and on campus. We will GENERAL COMMUNITY GUIDELINES •• No groups larger than 12 people will also provide printouts with detailed •• Cloth face coverings/masks are gather indoors. information about local medical required indoors and encouraged •• Residential participants will stay in facilities. at all times. Specifically, you are single-occupancy rooms. •• If you are experiencing symptoms, required to wear a cloth face tell core staff immediately. covering/mask in the following DINING •• Staff will take the temperature situations: •• When the dining room is open for of any student demonstrating •• Whenever you are inside a building. meal retrieval, markings on the potential COVID symptoms. As we are all in community together, •• When engaging in programming. floor will direct flow of traffic and •• All students with COVID-like it is everyone’s responsibility to assist •• When working in the studios (both spacing. symptoms (cough and fever) will COMMUNITY in ensuring that we remain free of indoor and open air). •• Meals will be served by staff be asked to leave campus and COVID-19. All of our COVID guidelines •• Outdoors whenever you are within 6 wearing personal protective seek medical care at the Campus and processes are motivated by CDC feet of another person. equipment. Director’s discretion. recommendations. •• Practice proper handwashing. •• A plexiglass shield will separate •• In the event that anyone currently C O V I D - 1 9 •• Socially distance, staying at least participants and staff at the main on campus has an active case In order to mitigate the risks and spread 6 feet apart from others, whenever serving station. of COVID or exhibits COVID-like of COVID-19, we have implemented new possible. •• Prepackaged, grab-and-go snacks symptoms, the Ox-Bow campus safety measures on campus. We ask •• Properly cover your mouth and nose will be available for residential will close immediately. We will MITIGATION that all community members follow the when coughing and sneezing. participants. assist participants in making FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER guidelines and best practices below. •• We will not allow the reuse of cups arrangements to leave campus. SAFETY MEASURES AT OX-BOW or plates for seconds. Ox-Bow will remain closed for two

GUIDELINES SAFETY MEASURES FOR RESIDENTIAL Enrollment: Our 2021 programming is •• Participants will deposit all dirty weeks prior to reopening. PARTICIPANTS (anyone staying focused on workshops and events dishes directly into tubs filled with a •• Ox-Bow will work with the required overnight) geared toward smaller numbers of soap/detergent solution. outside health departments for •• You must get a COVID test 72 hours people. •• We will dine in diffused, demarcated, contact tracing. prior to arrival at Ox-Bow, and and primarily outdoor seating areas. •• Ox-Bow’s staff cannot provide submit proof of a negative result SPACES •• Food service practices will evolve medical care or transportation to a to the Campus Director before •• Access to the ground floor of the as needed. care facility. traveling to campus. Ox-Bow Inn is primarily limited to •• We recommend that you isolate/ staff. Participants will have access CLEANING quarantine for 14 days prior to only during designated meal pickup •• Housekeeping staff use antiviral arrival on campus. times. cleaning agents for all cleaning •• You will receive a questionnaire, to •• We have implemented separate purposes. be filled out 48 hours prior to arrival work spaces in studios, limited •• Housekeeping staff clean and on campus, confirming that you have not been exposed to COVID-19 and are not currently experiencing any symptoms. PAGE 36 OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

courtesy of Christopher Meerdo 2020 Virtual Artifacts: Moldmaking, Hydroprinting, Screenspace Objects Course BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ox-Bow’s Board of Directors contributes their time, expertise, and resources to ensure that future generations of artists will benefit from Ox-Bow’s rich tradition and outstanding programming. We are grateful for their dedication and support. SUMMER 2021 OX-BOW BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steven C. Meier President

Janet R. Cunningham Secretary & Treasurer

MEMBERS O X - B O W M E R I T Scott Alfree Evan Boris Dawn Gavin SCHOLARSHIPS Lucy Minturn We offer a variety of scholarships for students taking credit or non-credit classes to ensure that the Ox- Governance Chair Bow experience is open to everyone. The scholarship deadline is Monday, March 22, 2021, at 10 a.m. EST William Padnos (9 a.m. CST). Apply online at www.ox-bow.org.* * Only one application is required to apply for all available Elissa Tenny scholarships. Keith P. Walker Todd E. Warnock BEA AND CAROLINE DAVIS SCHOLARSHIP: GEORGE LIEBERT SCHOLARSHIP: For MARION AND TOM WENDEL Available to all students. Credit or undergraduate and graduate students SCHOLARSHIP: For high school students non-credit courses. from any school. Credit courses only. enrolling in the Pre-College program.

BEN SEAMONS MEMORIAL JIM ZANZI SCHOLARSHIP FUND: For SAIC MARY LOUISE BARNA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: Available to all students to take classes at Ox-Bow. SCHOLARSHIP: For degree-seeking students. Credit or non-credit Granted on the basis of financial need. students from any college or university courses. Credit courses only. with demonstrated financial need, who would be unable to attend Ox-Bow OUR PROGRAMMING SUPPORTERS DALE METTERNICH MEMORIAL LALLA ANNE CRITZ ZANZI SCHOLARSHIP: without the support of this scholarship. SCHOLARSHIP: For undergraduate For female SAIC undergraduate and Credit courses only. and graduate students graduate painting students. Credit from any school. Credit or non-credit courses only. RUPPRECHT SCHOLARSHIP: For

courses. undergraduate and graduate students FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER

LATINX ARTIST VISIBILITY AWARD: A currently enrolled in SAIC’s Painting and DANIEL CLARKE JOHNSON MEMORIAL fully funded opportunity for Latina/o/x Drawing programs. Credit courses only. SCHOLARSHIP: For undergraduate students to experience Ox-Bow. For and graduate students from undergraduate and graduate students STEKETEE SCHOLARSHIP: For SAIC EFROYMSON FAMILY FUND JOHN M. HARTIGAN MEMORIAL OX-BOW NEA AWARD any school. Credit or non-credit from any school. Credit or non-credit undergraduate and graduate students. This project was funded in part by a grant SCHOLARSHIP FOR PAINTERS Ox-Bow is pleased to be the recipient of courses. courses. This award is in partnership Credit or non-credit courses. from the Efroymson Family Fund. The John M. Hartigan was a life-long Chica- a grant award from the National Endow- with J. Soto and Anthony Romero. Efroymson Family Fund, a donor- advised goan, an artist, a patron of the arts, and a ment for the Arts. Ox-Bow will offer artist DAVE BALAS SCHOLARSHIP: Available VI FOGLE URETZ SCHOLARSHIP: For SAIC fund of the Central Indiana Community dedicated family man. A gifted lawyer and fully-subsidized and paid residency to all students. Credit or non-credit LEROY NEIMAN FOUNDATION undergraduate and graduate students. Foundation, continues a long legacy of an engaged community member, John was opportunities in the Summer and Fall. In courses. SCHOLARSHIP: For undergraduate and Credit or non-credit courses. charitable commitment by the Efroymson always interested in civic affairs, sitting on order to meet the needs of working artists, graduate students from any school. family in central Indiana. The Efroymson a number of Boards. Over the years he took we are constantly striving to alleviate E.W. ROSS SCHOLARSHIP: For high Credit or non-credit courses. WEST MICHIGAN SCHOLARSHIP: For Family Fund was established in 1998 by Dan courses at the School of the Art Institute, as financial barriers that hinder the cre- and Lori Efroymson to promote the visibility well as Summer courses at Ox-Bow. John ative process. Offering paid residencies school students enrolling in the Pre- students residing within the West of communities and to date has awarded loved both the camaraderie and the artis- answers the increasing call for Ox-Bow to College program. LORETTE GRELLNER SCHOLARSHIP: For Michigan area. Credit or non-credit more than $88 million in grants in central tic synergy of the campus. The Hartigan be both an artistic and financial haven adult women who are either pursuing a courses. Indiana and beyond. For more information Endowment will be used to support the for artists and their work. This program FITZ AND THELMA COGHLIN degree in art or seeking to refresh their about the Efroymson Family Fund, on-going education of artist in residence is supported in part by an award from SCHOLARSHIP: For students from the professional practice in the classroom visit: efroymsonfamilyfund.org whose medium is acrylic and/or oil. This the National Endowment for the Arts Art West Michigan region. Credit or non- environment. Credit or non-credit award is available to applicants for both Works. PAGE 38 credit courses. courses. the Summer and Fall Residency cycles. SCHOOL OF ART OX-BOW

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