WI NTE R 2022 Course Catalo g
OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART & ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY was established in 1910 and continues its mission of connecting artists to a network of creative resources, people, and ideas; an energizing natural environment; and a rich artistic history and vital future. Ox-Bow’s egalitarian and intimate environment encourages all artists, regardless of experience, to find, amplify, rediscover, and share their impulse to create. Faculty, Visiting Artists, Residents, staff, and students live together in a temporary intentional community on our campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, where they share meals, social time, and the exchange of ideas. We actively encourage our participants to engage across differences in age, regional location, race, and gender identity, learning what it means to be a community by participating in one.
CON TAC T US WEBSITE : WWW.OX-BOW.ORG E-MAIL : OX-BOW@SAIC.EDU SAUGATUCK CAMPUS 3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453 FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK @OXBOWSCHOOLOFART
PROUDLY AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, A MAJOR SPONSOR OF OX-BOW
*All images are courtesy of artists/faculty unless otherwise noted.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Winter Session Overview
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2-Week Courses
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1-Week Courses
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Online Courses
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Registration, Tuition & Fees 16
COVER ART BY Jessica V. Gatlin Morass #3 (from She would become lost... series) 2015 - 16 ; Inkjet Print; 60” x 40” View more of the JG’s work at : www.jvgatlin.com PA G E 1
JANUARY 2 - 23, 2022
2022 WINTE R S E SS ION Join us at Ox-Bow for an exciting winter session! This winter we are offering one- and two-week in-person and online classes, for-credit or non-credit. Topics include ceramics, photography, painting and drawing, print, science, and graduate projects. On campus, winter is a great time to enjoy Ox-Bow’s landscape, live and work in a small community of artists, and to enjoy quiet, uninterrupted time for making. Our for-credit classes are offered in partnership with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon completing a for-credit course, students will receive 3 credits for a two-week class and 1.5 credits for a one-week class. Students enrolled in in-person classes will reside on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan and enjoy 24/7 access to the studios, delicious meals prepared daily, and discussions with a small community of peers. If you are an SAIC student, a class at Ox-Bow fulfills a portion of your off-campus study requirements. If you can’t join us on campus, consider enrolling in one of our online classes. Ox-Bow online classes meet everyday during the session via Zoom and Google Classroom. PA G E 2
GRADUATE PROJECTS with Ruby T
2-WE E K C O U RS E S JANUARY 2-15, 2022
FREE CLAY with Liz McCar thy
FEEDBACK LOOP: NEW METHODS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE with Bobby Gonzales & Bradley Marshall
1 -WE E K C O U RS E S JANUARY 16 - 22, 2022
CHOP SHOP: GUIDED TRANSFORMATIONS with Jessica Gatlin & Brandon Donahue
MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, AND MEANING with Lauren Gregor y
O N LI N E C O U RS E S JANUARY 10-23, 2022
ONLINE: MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, AND MEANING with Magalie Guerin
ONLINE: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR with Dianne Jedlicka
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JANUARY 2 - 15, 2022 2-WEEKS
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GRADUATE PROJECTS with Ruby T
2-WEEK || 3 CREDITS || PAINTING 6009 003 Ox-Bow offers currently enrolled MFA students the opportunity to independently study at Ox-Bow. Students have their own studios and can work on projects of their design, either in response to the specific environment of Ox-Bow or to prepare for their thesis shows. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Altar for getting slammed so hard by a wave; ink and beaded embroidery on hand-marbled vellum, wood, grommets, and nails; 25.5 x 32 x 3 inches; 2020
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RUBY T’s work is an experiment in translating fantasy to reality, and she is fueled by anger, desire, and magic. Rooted in drawing, her practice has offshoots in painting, performance, comics, fibers, and video. She was named a 2018 Breakout Artist by Newcity and received her MFA from SAIC in 2016. She has had solo and twoperson exhibitions in Chicago at Western Exhibitions, Randy Alexander Gallery, Roots & Culture, The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, and Woman Made Gallery. Ruby has performed and screened video works at Chicago spaces including Iceberg Projects, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Gallery 400, Chicago Filmmakers, and Comfort Station, as well as Monaco in St. Louis, Compliance Division in Portland, and the Visual Arts Gallery at University of Illinois Springfield. Her band Lezurrexion performed in over 50 crusty basements, clubs, and secret outdoor spaces between 2011 and 2015, and she is a current member of the organizing collective Make Yourself Useful.
JANUARY 2 - 15, 2022 2-WEEKS
FREE CLAY with Liz McCar thy
2-WEEK || 3 CREDITS || CER AMICS 624 001 L AB FEE : $100 In this class we will make sculptures using basic clay manipulating techniques (slabs, coiling, pinching, carving, etc...) as well as a variety of alternative approaches (paper-clay, unfired clay, combustible supports) and proceed to experiment and discover our own alternative approaches. You will be encouraged to consider it in relation to other materials, both through incorporating alternative materials into clay bodies, as well as by challenging (or exploiting) conventional forms, practices, and the perceived boundaries of clay as a material. This class is intended to move beyond traditional technical instruction, and open up the dialogue on how we can use clay to convey and expand new meanings generally expressed with more conventional sculptural tools. This course will be open to beginning as well as advanced ceramic students; it will consist of demonstrations, critiques, slide presentations, and mostly, personal hands-on work. We will look at work from celebrated ceramicists like Cal Funk Persei; glazed stoneware; height: 11”; 2020
and Ken Price and artists like Johan Tahon and Salto Alto, to the sculpture of more historic artists like Matisse, Lucio Fontana, Niki de St. Phalle and contemporary makers like Vincent Fecteau, Rachel Harrison, Charles Long, Mark Manders, and Rebecca Warren.
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LIZ MCCARTHY (she/they) is a Chicago-based artist combining ceramics with other mediums to interrogate material and cultural modes of identity performativity. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Studio Art and her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in Photography. Her mix of performance, sculpture, and installation have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; the Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles; ExGirlfriend in Berlin; and numerous Chicago galleries. She most recently had solo exhibitions at Goldfinch and 062 in Chicago. Currently, she acts as Founding Director of the GnarWare Workshop ceramics school, and is Faculty in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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JANUARY 2 - 15, 2022 2-WEEKS
FEEDBACK LOOP: NEW METHODS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE with Bobby Gonzales & Bradley Marshall
2-WEEK || 3 CREDITS || PHOTO 614 001 L AB FEE : $ 50 In this course, students will push against the dimensional limitations of the digital image through assemblage, accumulation, and improvisation. The class will produce collage and installation works via large format inkjet prints and material-driven intervention which will serve as starting and ending points simultaneously. Responding to the unique communal culture at OxBow, students will compose images in the studio and in nature and explore intentional and alternative techniques of picture manipulation. We will consider the writings of Audre Lorde and Jaspir Puir, and glean inspiration from artists including Sarah Cwynar, Daniel Gordon, and Valli Export. Students should provide their own camera (digital or iPhone) and laptop with photoshop but will be introduced to alternative post-processing software that will encourage performative, painterly, or deskilled editing techniques. This class will culminate in a group exhibition in Ox-Bow’s CLEAN Space. PA G E 6
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FACULT Y BIOS BOBBY GONZALES (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Saugatuck, MI. Gonzales’s practice utilizes intuitive play in a variety of mediums - painting, drawing, collage, photography, print and performance - to access states of deep communication with the self and challenge common notions of space, time, and identity. The main goal of his work is to manifest spaces of selfknowledge and psychic wellness, which can then be transferred to the viewer. Gonzales’s work has been exhibited and published by Roots & Culture, Chicago; Wassaic Project, NY; Chicago Artists Coalition; Das Institut fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin; The Milwaukee Institute for Art and Design; Columbia University, NY; Zurcher Gallery, NY; and Vox Populi, Philadelphia. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2006 and completed his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. He is currently the print and new media studio manager at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency. ---------------------------
Bobby Gonzales A Petal That Isn’t Torn; collaged screenprints, acrylic, rhinestones and glitter on paper; 50” x 38”; 2021
BRADLEY MARSHALL (he/him) is an artist, writer, and educator who employs sculptural and photographic strategies to investigate shifting material and emotional states located in specific images, videos, and objects. Through various modes of research, fabrication, and installation strategies, he works to collapse languages of the virtual, spatial, and psychological into new contingencies. His studio practice attempts to unpack these dynamics in a manner that can underline the personal as political, design and formal value as products of power, and things and materials as holding agency and affecting us in powerful ways. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture after receiving an MFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University in 2018. He has participated in the Stoveworks residency program in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the NARS program in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Houston Center for Photography, SF Camerawork, Parallelogram Gallery, Skylab Gallery, and Stoveworks. He is coeditor of Number Inc. Magazine, a quarterly publication for fine arts writing in the American south.
Bradley Marshall How End Is Never?; brushed steel, found beads, found pecan, cast pecan; 42” x 24” x 48”; 2021
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JANUARY 16 - 22, 2022 1-WEEK
CHOP SHOP: GUIDED TRANSFORMATIONS with Jessica Gatlin & Brandon Donahue
1-WEEK || 1.5 CREDITS PRINT 66 4 001 || L AB FEE : $ 50 Class as collage, mixtape, chop shop - a place where vehicles are dismantled and distributed. In this course, students are encouraged to explore a variety of media through both individual and collaborative prompts. Group discussions will be had on authorship, appropriation, the collective, the individual, and transformation. Students will engage with techniques and media such as airbrush, assemblage, performance, and print to repair, examine, and transform objects and practices. Readings will include The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying from Darren Hudson Hicks and select works by bell
FACULT Y BIOS BRANDON J. DONAHUE is a visual artist working in assemblage, mural painting, and airbrushing. His artwork and research are rooted in community engagement with an emphasis on memorials and commemorating. Donahue received his Masters of Fine Art from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2013. Donahue has exhibited nationally and internationally including the 13th Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba in 2019. Donahue is the recipient of the 2018 Tanne Foundation Award and presented his work at the Southeastern College Arts Conference in 2016. He recently completed an artist residency at the David C. Driskell Center in College Park, Maryland where he collaborated with students to paint a mural commemorating Prof. David C. Driskell.
hooks. Assignments will include Communicative Practice Scoring in which participants will be challenged as maker, facilitator, audience, and interpreter. The class will culminate in a group project guided by our discussions and is adaptable according to the group’s skills and interests. PA G E 8
JESSICA “JG” GATLIN (she/her) is an artist, maker and part-time sorceress based in Baltimore, MD. In her interdisciplinary practice, JG uses both speculative and terrestrial approaches to pursue ways to deconstruct and dismantle the oppressive structures within a White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Florida State University and MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has participated in several reputable artist residencies and fellowships, including the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland; the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency in Saugatuck, MI;and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions, A.C.R.E. in Steuben, Wisconsin. In 2019, JG served as the Hamblet Artist-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. Recently, she recently joined the faculty at the University of Maryland as Assistant Professor of Print and Extended Media.
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Basketball Bloom (Space Jam) 4.5 x 4.5 ft; Searched for and found basketballs 2021
Keeper of the Flag Stewardship project for In Apropos Proposal est. 2020 (ongoing)
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JANUARY 16 - 22, 2022 1-WEEK
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MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, AND MEANING with Lauren Gregor y
1-WEEK || 1.5 CREDITS || PAINTING 605 001 This course for beginning to advanced students includes extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Students pursue various interests in figure, landscape, abstract, imaginary, and still-life painting and drawing. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations and critiques are included. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy on Grindr; Oil paint on boar skin; 54 x 46”; 2016
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LAUREN GREGORY (she/her/hers) is a painter, animator, educator and director who is best known for her technique of oil paint stop-motion animation, a way of making her paintings move. Born and raised in the mountains of East Tennessee, she began as an observational portrait painter, capturing friends and family in quick one session sittings. Following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother, Lauren is the third in a lineage of southern female painters. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and since then has created GIFs, looped video installations, and narrative animated shorts that have screened at MoMA PS1, Queens; the New Museum, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; and at museums and film festivals around the world. She has directed and animated music videos for Toro y Moi, Macy Rodman, and Uffie, and has been awarded artist residencies in Budapest, Hungary; Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy; and in Newburgh, New York. Lauren teaches painting and animation at Parsons School of Design, Temple University and Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. She is represented in New York by the Elijah Wheat Showroom and in Nashville by the Red Arrow Gallery. Lauren lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
Winter p ainting of the Ox- B ow lago on
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ONLINE COURSES
ONLINE: MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, AND MEANING JANUARY 10-23, 2022
with Magalie Guerin
ONLINE: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR with Dianne Jedlicka
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JANUARY 10 - 23, 2022 ONLINE
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ONLINE: MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, AND MEANING with Magalie Guerin
2-WEEK || 3 CREDITS || PAINTING 670 001 This course for beginning to advanced students includes extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Students pursue various interests in figure, landscape, abstract, imaginary, and stilllife painting and drawing. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations and critiques are included. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Untitled (res 9.1); oil on canvas on panel; 30x24”; 2020
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MAGALIE GUÉRIN (b. Montreal, 1973, pronoun she/her) lives and works in Marfa, TX. Her work is shape-based and abstract in nature, although it employs strategies of representation, which brings these invented shapes into an unknown yet seemingly familiar frame of reference. The experience of foreignness and discovery is at the core of Guérin’s practice. Guérin holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from SAIC (2011). She has had solo shows at Amanda Wilkinson,London;, Chapter NY,New York; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal; Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago; Schwarz Contemporary Berlin; and Anat Egbi, Los Angeles. She is the author of NOTES ON, a compilation of studio writings (The Green Lantern Press, 2016/2019). Awards include Pace at the Fine Arts Work Center (2019), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2018), and the Chinati Foundation residency (2018). She is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal.
JANUARY 10 - 23, 2022 ONLINE
ONLINE: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR with Dianne Jedlicka
2-WEEK || 3 CREDITS || SCIENCE 3523 001
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This course will incorporate field observations in the natural environment surrounding Saugatuck into the study of animal behavior. Students will formulate and test hypotheses through the acquisition of data in the field. Topics covered include: classical learning and instinct, reproductive behaviors, and interactions between and within species.
DR. DIANNE JEDLICKA teaches numerous Biology courses at SAIC including Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Mammalogy, Ecology (Natural History), and Human Anatomy and Physiology. Her primary research has been at the community level of organization focusing on the feeding strategies and predation of tree and ground squirrels based on their functional morphology. Observational data collected on nocturnal foraging of the eastern cottontail rabbit was published recently. All of these animals are found throughout the Ox-Bow region and offer Dr. Jedlicka’s students ample opportunity for scientific observations. Dr. Jedlicka has also presented and published articles on new teaching methods and labs in the college classroom. Papers on mirror neurons and their implications for group behaviors is a current study topic of the Animal Behavior students. Dr. Jedlicka is returning to Ox-Bow for another session of Animal Behavior. Mammals, birds, and of course, our own lagoon turtles will provide much insight into the animal kingdom!
Photo (top) by Clare Britt
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REGISTRATION, TUITION & FUNDING
I N FO SESSION
Want to find out more about our winter session? Come to our virtual information session on October 13, 2021 via this Zoom link. JOIN HERE Can’t attend the information session? Email us at ox-bow@saic.edu to have your questions answered.
REGISTRATION Registration begins Monday, November 15, 2021 at 8:30AM CST at ox-bow.org. TUITION & FEES
PROGR AM
TUITION
Undergraduate 1-week
$2610
Graduate 1-week
$2697
Undergraduate 2-week
$5220
Graduate 2-week
$5394
Non-credit 1-week
$900
Non-credit 2-week
$1800
Non-credit Online
$1000
Room & Board Cost
ROOM & BOARD
COST
Shared Room 1-week
$840
Single Room 1-week
$1200
Shared Room 2-weeks
$1820
Single Room 2-weeks
$2600
Room & Board fees cover lodging during the session and three meals per day. Single or shared rooms are available. Single rooms are limited, first-come-first-served and we encourage those interested to register quickly. PAYMENT For-credit payments should be processed via check to SAIC or credit card payment through SAIC’s payment partner, CASHnet, which is accessible through Peoplesoft Self Service. Non-credit payment should be processed via credit card at the time of registration using Ox-Bow registration form.
DROP POLICY Students needing to drop a winter course must drop their class by 4:30PM CST on December 6, 2021 to receive a refund. All drops must be submitted in writing to Ox-Bow at ox-bow@saic.edu. From the time of registration to 4:30PM CST on December 6th, students will receive a full refund minus $250 and any associated lab fees. If dropped after December 6th, no refunds will be given. In cases of a documented emergency, students may go through SAIC’s refund review process. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Ox-Bow Merit Scholarship Ox-Bow will award a limited number of partial merit scholarships this winter. Applications are due Friday, November 5, 2021 by midnight. All students are eligible to apply. Students who receive a scholarship are able to pre-register for their preferred course. Apply online at ox-bow.org SAIC FINANCIAL AID Undergraduate and graduate students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago may be able to use their financial aid award and merit scholarships from SAIC toward for-credit tuition for courses at Ox-Bow. Students will need to complete an SAIC Winter 2022 Institutional Financial Aid Application available at www.saic.edu/faforms. Applications must be submitted before the term begins. Please contact the SAIC Student Financial Services office or refer to the application for exact deadlines. Financial aid typically does not cover room and board or lab fees at Ox-Bow. Learn more about applying at the School’s Office of Financial Aid, by calling 312.629.6600, or by emailing saic.sfs@saic.edu. PA G E 17
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GETTING TO OX-BOW Our campus is located in Saugatuck, MI about two and a half hours from Chicago. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to campus. Driving is most convenient but Amtrak and Greyhound are available. Please make travel arrangements early and be aware of weather conditions prior to your trip. LIFE AT OX-BOW The winter session at Ox-Bow is small and hosts no more than 30 students on campus. Faculty and students have the unique opportunity of living and working on campus together, sharing meals, and growing in a community of dedicated, thoughtful artists. Students reside in Ox-Bow’s Main Inn, which also houses the dining room with a fireplace, the main office, and the lecture room. Students may request single or shared rooms; bathrooms are shared. A full orientation guide will be provided after registration. COVID-19 MITIGATION COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Effective September 15, 2021, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency will require every participant who stays overnight on campus to submit proof of full vaccination, unless they cannot do so due to a religious or medical reason or other authorized exception. This requirement pertains to everyone staying overnight on campus, including staff, students, faculty, artists-inresidence and other guests. We will also maintain our mitigation standard that all of our fully-vaccinated overnight guests on campus get a COVID test 72 hours prior to arrival, and submit proof of a negative result to the Campus Director before traveling to campus. Additionally, masks/face coverings must be worn by all (unless a documented medical exception is required) whenever in common indoors spaces. We will send a self-assessment questionnaire in advance to participants’ arrival, on which participants will be asked to log any symptoms or exposure to COVID-19; and also will be able to upload proof of vaccination and negative COVID test results. If any participant is experiencing symptoms that may indicate a COVID-19 infection while staying on campus, the Campus Director may require an over-the-counter COVID test or a lab test from a local free testing site. PA G E 18
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Photos by Clare Britt (x3)
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IMPORTANT DATES October 13, 2021
Information Session via Zoom
November 5, 2021
Merit Scholarship Applications Due
November 15, 2021
Registration opens: at ox-bow.org, 8:30AM CST
December 6, 2021
Last day to drop your course
I N FO SESSION
Want to find out more about our winter session? Come to our virtual information session on October 13, 2021 via this Zoom link. JOIN HERE Can’t attend the information session? Email us at ox-bow@saic.edu to have your questions answered.