2023
CATALOGUECOURSE
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.
CONTACT US WEBSITE : www.ox-bow.org E-MAIL : oxbow@ox-bow.org SAUGATUCK CAMPUS 3435 Rupprecht Way Saugatuck, MI 49453 OX-BOW HOUSE 137 Center Street Douglas, MI 49406 FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK @oxbowschoolofart + @oxbow_hospitality PROUDLY AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, A MAJOR SPONSOR OF OX-BOW NOTE : All images are courtesy of artists/faculty unless otherwise noted.
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2023 CATALOGWINTER
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OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART & ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY
The 2023 Winter catalog CommunicationOx-Bow’sdesignedwasby2022 & Fellow,LeroyPhotographyNeimanHai-Wen Lin.
COVER ART BY Lee Blalock; from ‘Sy5z3n_3: Ohm Overdub / Medi(a)tation for Generative Respiration (2018); “Band” portrait, 14 step solenoid sequencer mask, inflatable mask, motorized bell mask; Band images by Sophia Barr Hayne Learn more about this work and more of Lee’s work at: www.leeblalock.com IN-PERSONOVERVIEW COURSES ONLINE COURSES WINTER LIFE @ OX-BOW IMPORTANT INFORMATION 20 REGISTRATION 20 TUITION & FEES 20 FUNDING 21 DROP POLICY 21 COVID-19 MITIGATION 18161042 PAGE 1
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The campus at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency offers a restorative environment for students at the School of the Art Institute and beyond. Ox-Bow’s winter session allows students to escape the city and unwind during Winter Break while remaining active in their making. This Winter we are offering two-week, for-credit, in-person and online courses in a range of topics including ceramics, weaving, painting and drawing, art and tech, and science.
2023 SESSIONWINTER
Whether you join us on campus or in-person, you become part of the larger Ox-Bow community, and we are excited to have you here!
Our online offerings give students the same sense of community but in a virtual space. Online courses meet MondaySaturday during the session via Zoom and Google Classroom. Upon completing a two-week course for credit, all students will receive 3 credits.
Venturing to campus means students experience Ox-Bow’s tranquil natural environment while working alongside a small community of artists. Students are encouraged to revel in the peaceful, uninterrupted time for their practice. Residing on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, students will be in the classroom every day of the week (including weekends), enjoy 24/7 access to the studios, eat delicious meals prepared daily, and share in open dialogs with their cohort. A course at Ox-Bow fulfills a portion of SAIC’s offcampus study requirements.
FEELING SHAPEY with Alberto Aguilar & Alex Bradley Cohen PAINTING 660 001 WEAVING INTENSIVE with FIBERkg621 001 CLAY MAKERSPACE with Chase Barney CER 657 001 IN-PERSON COURSES JANUARY 8-21,9:302023a.m.-5:00 p.m. Everyday during the session (including weekends) PAGE 4
ALEX BRADLEY COHEN (he/him; b. 1989) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Recent group exhibitions include in In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; and Triple: Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self, University Art Museum at the University of Albany, NY. Other exhibitions include The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA; Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; and The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, among others. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and, as an Artist-in-Residence, the Ox-Bow School of Art. Cohen’s work can be found in the public collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
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ALBERTO AGUILAR is a Chicago based artist that uses whatever material is at hand in an attempt to make a
Bradley Cohen, Public Life, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20”, 2021
Aguilar, Altered State 2, Enamel on paper, 30”x48” PAGE 7
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Weaving is a process for contemporary makers to explore narratives of identity, labor, history and the body. This course explores weaving’s connection to narrative, addressing how meaning can be made through conceptual and process-based approaches. Students will learn weaving techniques and execute a number of finished works. Students will focus on narrative in relationship to weaving through imagery, found objects, woven structure, performance, display, warp, and weft relationships, color, and dig into the process of weaving itself as narrative work.
KG (they/them) (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry in Chicago. kg has exhibited with Horse and Pony in Berlin, Side gate Gallery in Melbourne, The Salina Art Center and UMKC Gallery Of Art in Kansas, Praxis Fiber Workshop in Ohio, SideCar Gallery in Indiana, Left Field Gallery in San Luis Obispo CA, L.O.G. in Chapel Hill North Carolina, Camayuhs in Atlanta, The Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Bruce High Quality Foundation in New York, The Poor Farm in Little Wolfe Wisconsinand with LVL3, Julius Caesar, Terrain, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Tusk, AddsDonna, Gallery 400, Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University, The Ukrainian, Institute of Modern Art, Dock 6 Design studios, The Suburban at the MDW Art Fair, Hyde Park Art Center and at LOLLAPALOOZA Music Festival, all in Chicago. kg was a participant at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017 and The Vermont Studio Center as a fellow in 2018. Their expansive weaving survey Some Kind Of Duty, hosted by The DePaul Art Museum is available as a monograph through the museum shop and online.
Cleanup Time, Bleach soaked cotton stripes strung with Donettes stabbed through with this old dog’s nose, 7” x 9”, 2021 WEAVING INTENSIVE with 2-WEEKSkg || FIBER 621 001 || 3 CREDITS
They are currently resident artist at Chicago’s print cooperative The Donut Shop and future shows include The Peeler Art Center in IN, Adjunct Positions in L.A. and Intranarratives, a virtual story tellers project hosted by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
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This course provides students of all levels with the opportunity to work on their own projects and to improve their ceramics skills. Students will have access to all materials in the Ceramic Studio, and can choose from a variety of firing options, including the electric kiln, gas kiln, or raku. Demonstrations will include hand building, vessel creation, construction methods, proper firing methods, and encourage intermediate understanding of drying times, methods for building sound pieces, techniques for minimizing loss, and studio safety. Taking inspiration from historical movements and contemporary ceramicists, students may engage in coil and slab building, slip casting, have time on the potter’s wheel, and practice a variety of surface design techniques. Assignments are designed to build understanding of each method, and students will conceive projects that reflect their interests. Instructors will be available to help facilitate individual, collaborative, and interdisciplinary projects.
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CHASE BARNEY creates ceramic vessels and relief sculptures allowing him to reinvent and project narratives that blend queer joy and religious melancholy. Barney’s object making is an exercise in conjuring queer power: a power that stems from inventing worlds where strangeness is a source of pleasure. Barney graduated with a BFA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA at The School of the Art Institute Chicago. Barney has exhibited across the United States and has received numerous grants and scholarships in support of his work, including a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. As well as the New Artist Scholarship and the Municipal Art League Fellowship from SAIC. Barney is originally from Utah, and currently lives in Chicago, IL.
Two Face Vase (amends) ; glazed ceramic; 14” x 13” x 10”; 2022
MAKERSPACECLAY
with Chase Barney
2-WEEKS || CER 657 001 || 3 CREDITS
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MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: PROCESS, with Magalie Guérin PAINTING 669
001 ONLINE COURSES JANUARY 5 - 18, Monday2023- Saturday times listed in course descriptions PAGE 11
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka SCIENCE 3523
001
VIRTUAL LYRIC BOOKS with Lee Blalock ARTTECH 604
& MEANING
FORM,
with Magalie Guérin
|| PAINTING 669 001 || 3 CREDITS
2-WEEKS
(b. Montreal, 1973, she/her) lives and works in Marfa, TX. Her work is shape-based and abstract in nature although it employs strategies of representation (figure/ground relationship), 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.
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MAGALIE GUÉRIN
This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Emphasis will be placed on active decision-making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting process in relation to form and meaning. Students will pursue various interests in subject matter. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations, lectures and critiques will be included.
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).
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST
Untitled, oil on canvas on panel, 20 x 16”, 2022
PROCESS,PAINTING:MULTI-LEVELFORM,&MEANING
Awards include Pace at FAWC (2019), FoundationPollock-Krasnergrant(2018), and Chinati Foundation residency (2018). She is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal/Toronto.
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 OxBow 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.
2-WEEKS || SCIENCE 3523 001 3 1:00CREDITS-3:30 p.m. CST
NOTE : LIBSCI 3521: Animal Behavior is a separate course and may be taken for credit in addition to this one.
NOTE: SAIC Students must have already taken English 1001 & 1005 in order to enroll in this course.
with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka
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This course will incorporate field observations in the natural animalMichigansurroundingenvironmentSaugatuck,intothestudyofbehavior.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.
photo by Brandon Dill
BEHAVIORANIMAL
1:00 - 3:30 p.m. CST
VIRTUAL LYRIC BOOKS
As humans, we perpetually process a great deal of information from every direction, in every form, and often it isn’t kind enough to come in linearly, for easy digestion. Processing this noise doesn’t always happen in a thorough and organized manner. Instead, we often sample bubbles of thought that float between fiction and perceived reality. This course invites artists to explore practices that allow for bursts of thought using software and text. On our way to skill-based workshops, we will discuss contemporary media artists working with text, computation, and technology including Mendi + Keith Obadike, Allison Parrish, Nick Montfort, and Judd Morrissey. The generative poetry of early computer artists, excerpts from “The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop”, and the experimental text practices of different art movements will all supplement and inspire this class experience. We’ll look at art that marries text with technology and discuss how this affects how language is understood. Artists will create two works-in-progress that take cues from algorithmic techniques, song lyrics, combinatorial writing, and concrete poetry and receive hands-on experience placing these ideas in virtual environments using the game engine software Unity and code software p5.js. Students should provide their own computers and will be given access to the softwares.
2-WEEKS || ARTTECH 604 001 || 3 CREDITS
with Lee Blalock
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LEE BLALOCK (she/her) is a Chicago-based artist and educator presenting alternative and hyphenated states of being through ArtDepartmentArtisthe205(Chicago),ExperimentalNYUElectronica,manyinternationally,haspaddleboarding,quadwushu,sheherAscomputationalhumanmechatronics,andembodiedof-state”.amplifiedbodyherbehaviors,oftechnologiesprocesses.technology-mediatedInterestedinhowsupporttheideaimpossibleanatomies,andperformances,workisanexerciseinmodificationbywayofbehavioror“change-Lee’sinterestsincludecognition,anatomybiomechanics,bionics,human/non-entanglement,andabstraction.apracticalapplicationofembodimentresearch,regularlypracticesswimming,aggressiveskating,stand-upandbiking.Shepresentedworkdomestically,andvirtuallyatinstitutionsincludingArsthewrongbiennale,AbuDhabiArtGallery,SoundStudioICA(Philadelphia),HudsonGallery(NY),andArtInstituteofChicago.LeeanAssistantProfessorintheandTechnologyStudiesattheSchooloftheInstituteofChicago.
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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.
72 hours : amount of time our Field&Fire bread on the toast bar is fermented before baking
BUILDINGSSTUDIO different soups made in 2021
OX-BOWFOUNDEDWAS IN...
» Indoor/outdoor ceramics studio featuring a wood-fired kiln.
OX-BOWLIFEWINTERAT
SNOW FALL
Icons via noun project by Ted Grajeda, Oliver Silvérus, Teewara Soontorn, Nanda Ririz, Trishul, Luketaibai, Tezar Tantular, and Creative Mania
Frederick Fursman
» Open-air glass & metals studio
Frederick Fursman and Walter Clute, two faculty members from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, founded The Summer School of Painting (now Ox-Bow) in 1910.
» Print studio for lithography, letterpress, silkscreen, + linocut
Last year an average of 62” over the winter (West Michigan area)
MEET THE NEIGHBORS: White-tailed deer and foxes are year-round residents in Saugatuck. Both species have been sited on campus and in the Tallmadge woods. If you visit Ox-Bow this winter, you might have the chance to meet them!
Sauga-what? what, where is Saugatuck?
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The Crow’s Nest 2.1 mile loop is hikeable year around – but there’s something special about hiking the trail with cocoa in hand after a fresh dusting of snow.
GETTING TO OX-BOW
SIT BY A FIRE New inn dining room Campfire Ring by the lagoon Old Inn?
White-Tailed Deer Red Fox Scan QR code for a list of businesscurrenthoursduringthewinterseason SCAN ME Photos by Aaron Huber via Unsplash (deer); Ray Hennessy via Unsplash (fox); Dove Hornbuckle (crow’s nest illustration)t PAGE 17
Saugatuck is nestled along Lake Michigan and the Kalamazoo River and is defined by rolling dunes and lush countrysides. Saugatuck is home to a small number of year-round residents and slows down during the colder months. Here are some things you may need off campus:
Our campus is located in Saugatuck, MI about 2 ½ hours from Chicago. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to campus. Driving is most convenient but Amtrak is available. Please make travel arrangements early and be aware of weather conditions prior to your trip.
GROCERY STORE - Lake Vista Supervalu CAFES/COFFEE - The Farmhouse Deli & Pantry - Pennyroyal Cafe & Provisions LAUNDRY - Zoom Express Laundry
IMPORTANT INFOMATION COVID-19DROPFUNDINGTUITIONREGISTRATION&FEESPOLICYMITIGATION Photo by Hai-Wen Lin PAGE 19
A $125 COVID-19 fee will be applied to all enrollees staying overnight to support our heightened COVID-19 Mitigation Procedures.
For-credit payments should be processed via
Ox-Bow will award a limited number of partial merit scholarships this winter. Applications are due October 23, 2022 by midnight. All students are eligible to apply. These portfolio based applications are reviewed by an outside panel of diverse arts professionals. Students who receive a scholarship are able to pre-register for their preferred course. Apply online at ox-bow.org
UndergraduatePROGRAM 2-Weeks Graduate 2-Weeks TUITION$5580$5355 ROOM & BOARD Shared Room 2-Weeks Single Room 2-Weeks COST$2600$1820
Single or shared rooms are available. Single rooms are limited, first-come-first-served and we encourage those interested to register quickly.
OX-BOW WORK SCHOLARSHIPS
COVID-19 FEE
Ox-Bow will award a number of work scholarships on a first come, first-served basis to interested students. The work scholarship is equivalent to the cost of shared room and board while attending OxBow. Students work 15 hours per week while on campus in one of the following jobs: kitchen, housekeeping, grounds and maintenance, or administration. Work scholarships can only be claimed in person at Ox-Bow’s registration event on November 14 in the 2nd Floor Neiman Center at 8:30 a.m. CST.
The fee for room & board cover more than just your cozy 13-night stay on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan. At Ox-Bow, the kitchen is the heart of campus and our Hospitality Department, led by Culinary Director Nicholas Jirasek, aims to provide all participants with three restorative, sustainable, and healthy meals per day. The Hospitality team uses locally sourced ingredients as much as possible and can adapt to any dietary restriction. Meal plans are included in the room & board fee.
SAIC FINANCIAL AID
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.
OX-BOW MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
TUITION & FEES
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 forcredit 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.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
check to SAIC or credit card payment through SAIC’s payment partner, CASHnet, which is accessible through Peoplesoft Self Service.
PAYMENT
REGISTRATION
ROOM & BOARD
In-person registration begins Monday, November 14, 2022 at 8:30 a.m, CST in the Neiman Center, 37 S. Wabash. Online registration begins at 9:00 a.m. CST via ox-bow.org.
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Due to our COVID-19 community guidelines, all participants must be tested for COVID-19 72 hours prior to coming to campus. If any participant tests positive they will not be able to attend and therefore will be fully refunded with no associated drop fees (written notification and proof of test results within 5 days of the first day of class will be Ox-Bowrequired).isdedicated
to providing students with the experience described in the catalog, but cannot guarantee the listed faculty. In the rare event that a faculty cannot instruct their class, a replacement of similar expertise will be provided. Faculty replacement does not make a student eligible for a refund.
Effective Fall of 2022, Ox-Bow 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-in-residence, and other guests.
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.
is a mask-friendly, maskoptional campus. Our COVID-19 Community Masking policy will require cloth, surgical, or N95-style masks to be worn by those retrieving food in the New Inn dining room, and when returning used dishes to the dish pit. If you have recently traveled via airplane or Amtrak, please wear a mask when indoors for a minimum of 3 days while you monitor the development of any potential symptoms.
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. Complimentary disposable masks and COVID at-home tests are available for participants. Ox-Bow reserves the right to amend this policy at any time given outbreak trends or CDC guidance.
hours prior to arrival, and submit proof of a negative result to the Campus Director before traveling to Additionally,campus.Ox-Bow
INFORMATION SESSION Want to find out more about our winter session? Come to our information session on October 18, 2022 in the 1st Floor Neiman Center, 37 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60603. CAN’T ATTEND THE INFO SESSION? Email us at oxbow@ox-bow.org to have your questions answered.
DROP POLICY
COVID-19 COMMUNITYMITIGATIONGUIDELINES
Students needing to drop a winter course must drop their class by 4:30 p.m. CST on December 15, 2022 to receive a refund. All drops must be submitted in writing to OxBow at ox-bow@saic.edu. From the time of registration to 4:30PM CST on December 9, students will receive a full refund minus $250 and any associated lab fees. If dropped after December 9, no refunds will be given. In cases of a documented emergency, students may go through SAIC’s refund review process.
We will also maintain our mitigation standard that all of our fully-vaccinated overnight guests on campus get a COVID test 72
IMPORTANT DATES INFORMATION SESSION October 18, 2022 1sr Floor Neiman Center 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. CST 37 S. Wabash REGISTRATION IN-PERSON November 14, 2022 2nd Floor Neiman Center 8:30 a.m. CST 37 S. Wabash ONLINE OX-BOW.ORGAT November 14, 2022 9:00 a.m. ox-bow.org/winter-registrationCST DEADLINES MERIT APPLICATIONSSCHOLARSHIPDUE October 23, 2022 midnight CST LAST DAY TO DROP YOUR COURSE December 15, 2022
