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 SESSION 1 1-WEEK COURSES PG. 8 SESSION 3 2-WEEK COURSES PG. 10 SESSION 5 1-WEEK COURSES PG. 14 CONTACT US [email protected] FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER ONLINE FOLLOW UP PG. 16 IG : @OXBOWSCHOOLOFART 3 LETTER FROM OUR DIRECTOR FIND US 3435 RUPPRECHT WAY SAUGATUCK, MI 49453 6 BREAK DOWN OF SUMMER 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 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 FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER differences in age, regional location, race, and gender as “life-changing,” and to build on with compassion, hope, and vibrancy. 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 FOR MI ARTISTS SCHOOLS & PARTNER to explore new models, to provide dedicated 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 MONOTYPE SPECULATIVE WORLDS: PAPERMAKING May 12–18 Michigan students to 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 Photo courtesy of the artist (x4) LEARN MORE ABOUT VISITING ARTISTS ON PAGES 38-45 SESSION 1: 1-WEEK COURSES 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.