2024 Winter Course Catalog

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.

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3435 Rupprecht Way

Saugatuck, MI 49453

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137 Center Street Douglas, MI 49406

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

COVER ART BY Elnaz Javani, Distant closeness, 2023, Hand stitched embroidery, Hand dyed Fabric, Appliquéd, sublimation printing and discharge printing on cotton fabric, 46 x 56 inches

Learn more about this work and more of Elnaz’s work at: www.elnazjavani.com

2024 Winter Session

Join us at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency for a restorative winter session! This winter we are offering twoweek, for-credit, in-person and online courses in a range of topics including ceramics, print, fibers, painting and drawing, and science.

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.

Upon completing a two-week course for credit, students will receive 3 credits. 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. A class at Ox-Bow fulfills a portion of SAIC’s 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 MondaySaturday during the session via Zoom and Google Classroom.

Photos by Jamie Kelter Davis, Ian Solomon (2023 LeRoy Neiman Fellow), and Courtesy

Winter 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.

7478 COOKED EGGS

OX-BOW WAS FOUNDED IN...

STUDIO BUILDINGS

» Open-air glass & metals studio

» Print studio for lithography, letterpress, silkscreen, + linocut

» Indoor/outdoor ceramics studio featuring a wood-fired kiln.

SNOW FALL

Last year an average of 70” over the winter (West Michigan area)

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.

Frederick Fursman

Icons via noun project by Vector Portal (eggs), Oliver Silvérus (snowflake), Nanda Ririz (train), Trishul (car), Luketaibai (fire), and P Thanga Vignesh (Michigan)

Sauga-what?

Who, what, where is Saugatuck?

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:

GROCERY STORE

- Lake Vista Supervalu

CAFES/COFFEE

- The Farmhouse Deli & Pantry

- Pennyroyal Cafe & Provisions

LAUNDRY

- Zoom Express Laundry

GETTING TO OX-BOW

Scan QR code for a list of current business hours during the winter season

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 public transportation is available. Please make travel arrangements early and be aware of weather conditions prior to your trip.

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!

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.

SIT BY A FIRE

New inn dining room

Campfire Ring by the lagoon

White-Tailed Deer Red Fox

SCAN ME

Photos by Aaron Huber via Unsplash (deer); Ray Hennessy via Unsplash (fox); Dove Hornbuckle (crow’s nest illustration)

In-Person Courses

January 7 - 20, 2024

PAINT MAKERSPACE with Matt Morris

PAINTING 669 001

3 credits PATTERNED & PRINTED TEXTILES with Elnaz Javani

FIBER 628 001

3 credits

HANDBUILDING COMPLEX FORMS with Chris Salas

CER 662 001

3 credits

Courses take place every day during the session (including weekends) 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

HANDBUILDING COMPLEX FORMS

with Chris Salas

CER 662 001 | 3 CREDITS

In this intensive course, we will push the limits of sculptural and functional ceramics through large-scale form building. With a focus on the coil and pinch building methods, students will equip themselves with strategies, techniques, and practices which are helpful to hand build complex shapes, construct at a large scale, as well as make dynamic surfaces. To maximize our building time, we will be using slip, wash, stains, and underglaze to develop surfaces, with the majority of work being once-fired to cone 6. In the final days of class, we will commemorate our hard work with a communal pit firing. We will examine and discuss the work of contemporary and historical ceramic artists such as: Raven Halfmoon, George Rodriguez, Amia Yokoyama, Viola Frey, Matt Wedel, Isamu Noguchi, Woody De Othello among many others. We will read excerpts from the books “Finding One’s Way With Clay” by Paulus Berensohn and “A Potter’s Workbook” by Clary Illian. We will also watch a short documentary on the ceramic artist Lee Kang-Hyo. While the bulk of our studio work will revolve around hand-building a large scale, complex objects whose foundation starts from many parts, we will also have a daily practice looking at various aspects of complexity as well as idea generation.

CHRIS SALAS (they/ them) is an artist and educator primarily working in ceramics. Their practice centers a mental state of engaged and unconscious divergence and convergence of ideas imbued in objects. These objects become abstracted forms, which revolve around time, place, momentum, with a pervasive presence of the history of colonization of the Americas.

Chris received a BA in Chemistry from Michigan State University and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. They have attended residencies at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Ceramics School in Hamtramck, Michigan; Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine; and Starworks Ceramics in Star, North Carolina. Chris is a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design PostGraduate Teaching Fellowship.

Chris Salas, aloe, 2022, Stoneware, sinter engobe, glaze, 14.5 x 12.5 x 11 inches

P ATTE RNED & PRINTED TEXTILES

with Elnaz Javani

FIBER 628 001 | 3 CREDITS

In this course, we examine a range of traditional and contemporary approaches to surface designing and mark making on fabric, using materials both pure and crude, to generate images. This course introduces unique approaches to image-making and process-based work framed with specific conceptual and historical readings on how artists and craftspeople have used dye, print and drawing to create complex surfaces. Drawing will be used as a device to access ideas and will encourage accidental discovery. We will focus on the physical relationship between drawing and printing and will use silkscreen to translate images quickly onto cloth. Direct printing techniques, such as mono printing, will be employed to transfer

drawings onto unique surfaces, as well as photo-silkscreen, hand painting, and fabric reactive dyes. In this class, fabric will become thick, thin, ridged, brittle, opaque, and transparent extensions of paper. Instruction will be supplemented by lectures on fiber and print artists including Tomashi Jackson, Sam Vernon, and Ellen Gallagher and readings such as Prints Now Directions And Definitions, by Gill Saunders and Rosie Miles, Amanda Williams’ Color Theory, Hive Mind Out of Control by Kevin Kelly, The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and The Topology of Structural Hierarchy by Cyril Stanley Smith and Pauline Boucher, Handbook of Regular Patterns: An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions by Peter Stevens, and Randomness Rules and Compositional Structure in Design by Michael Eckersley. Students will engage in sampling and experimentation, and demonstrate an ongoing commitment to independent studio practice and projects. This class will include in-depth discussions about students’ projects, concepts, material, technical choices, and thematic interests. Students are expected to work independently on works of their choosing.

ELNAZ JAVANI (she/they) is an Iranian artist and educator in Chicago. She works between textiles, drawing, print, and installations. Her practice explores fragmentation of identity and place, power dynamics and labor. She holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Tehran University of Art. Javani was named one of Chicago’s Break Out Artists in 2022. She has received grants from the Center for Craft (2023), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2021-2022), Chicago Artist Coalition (2021), the Kala Art Institute (2020), the Define American Art Fellowship (2020), and the Hyde Park Art Center (2019). Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Spain, Iran, France, Colombia, Turkey, UAE, Germany, Canada, and Switzerland.

Elnaz Javani, Midnight Sun, 2023, Hand stitched embroidery, Hand dyed Fabric, Appliquéd cotton fabric, sublimation printing and discharge printing, 40x43 inches

PAINT MAKERSPACE

with Matt Morris PAINTING 669 001 | 3 CREDITS

This survey course provides students of all levels with the opportunity to work on their own projects and expand their painting skills. Students will have dedicated access to the painting studio and will be encouraged to experiment with various materials and techniques. Demonstrations may present techniques in acrylic or oil, sketching and planning processes, preparation of painting surfaces, and information on studio safety. The faculty will host presentations and lectures on relevant historical artists as well as contemporary painters, and students will engage in discussions, readings, screenings, and critiques with the group which illuminate painterly concerns and emphasize active decision making. Assignments are designed to build understanding of new methods, and students will conceive projects that reflect their interests. Instructors will be available to help facilitate individual, collaborative, and interdisciplinary projects and this course will culminate in a group critique.

MATT MORRIS is a polymath based in Chicago. An artist, perfumer, writer, curator, and educator, Morris uses painting, fragrance, and textile-based installations as inquiry tools for psychological, historical, and social valences of femininity, repression, fashion, and the political realities of subjecthood. Morris has presented artwork in Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, Portland, Austin, Milwaukee, Berlin, Belgium, and Denmark. Morris’ writing appears in anthologies, exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, and publications including Artforum.com and Flash Art. Morris is a transplant from southern Louisiana who holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and earned an MFA in Art Theory + Practice from Northwestern University, a Certificate in Gender + Sexuality Studies, and a Certification in Fairyology. Morris is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Matt Morris, ‘L’autre Commande Féminine de Bonbons Incendiés de Rubis:Sarah (daughter plant), Rachel (mochi), Ingrid (fury), Carmen (criminelle),’ 2022, four eau de toilettes in porcelain displayglass flacons, pigmented concrete, resin, spray atomizers, cotton batting, silk ribbon, marabou feathers. Perfume bottles developed in collaboration with Matt Joynt and COURTESAN. Porcelain display developed with support from Ike Floor and GnarWare Workshop

Online Courses

January 5 - 18, 2024 Monday-Saturday

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka

SCIENCE 3523 001

3 credits MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, & MEANING with Magalie Guérin

PAINTING 605 001

3 credits

Course times vary and are listed in couse descriptions

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka

SCIENCE 3523 001 | 3 CREDITS

1 - 3:30 P.M. CST

This course will incorporate field observations in the natural environment surrounding Saugatuck, Michigan 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.

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.

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.

Photo by Brandon Dill

photo by Brandon Dill

MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING: FORM, PROCESS, & MEANING

with Magalie Guérin

PAINTING 605 001 | 3 CREDITS

10 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. CST

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.

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 (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.

Guérin holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from SAIC (2011). She has had solo shows at Sikkema Jenkins & Co (NY), Corbett vs Dempsey (Chicago), Amanda Wilkinson (London), Chapter NY (New York), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montreal), 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 FAWC (2019), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2018), and Chinati Foundation residency (2018). She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York, Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal/Toronto.

Magalie Guérin, Untitled (CC2), 2023, Oil on canvas on panel, 30 x 24 inches

Imp ortant Infomation

REGISTRATION

TUITION & FEES

DROP POLICY

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

COMMUNITY HEALTH GUIDELINES

SAIC FINANCIAL AID

GETTING TO OX-BOW

REGISTRATION

In-person registration begins Monday, November 13, 2023 at 8:30 a.m in the Neiman Center, 37 S. Wabash.

Online registration begins at 9 a.m. CST via ox-bow.org.

REGISTRATION

In-person registration begins Monday, November 13, 2023 at 8:30 a.m in the Neiman Center, 37 S. Wabash.

Online registration begins at 9 a.m. CST via ox-bow.org.

December 8, 2023 to receive a refund. All drops must be submitted in writing to OxBow at oxbow@ox-bow.org From the time of registration to 4:30 p.m. CST on December 8, students will receive a full refund minus $250 and any associated lab fees. If dropped after December 8, no refunds will be given. In cases of a documented emergency, students may go through SAIC’s refund review process.

If any participant tests positive for COVID-19 within 5 days of the first day of class, they will receive a credit to attend a future Ox-Bow class of the same credit type and amount. Proof of test results is required.

Ox-Bow is dedicated to providing students with the experience described in the catalog, but cannot guarantee the listed faculty. In the event that a faculty cannot instruct their class due to an emergency, a replacement of similar expertise will be provided. Faculty replacement does not make a student eligible for a refund.

Room & Board fees cover more than just your cozy 13-night stay. At Ox-Bow, the kitchen is the heart of campus and aims to provide all participants with three restorative, sustainable, and healthy meals per day. This team uses locally sourced ingredients as much as possible and can adapt to any dietary restriction. Meal plans are included in the room and board fee. Single or shared rooms are available. Single rooms are limited, first-come-first-served and we encourage those interested to register quickly.

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.

DROP POLICY

Students needing to drop a winter course must drop their class by 4:30 p.m. CST on

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

OX-BOW MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

Ox-Bow will award a limited number of partial merit scholarships this winter. Applications are due October 22, 2023 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

OX-BOW WORK SCHOLARSHIPS

Ox-Bow will award a number of work scholarships on a first come, first-served basis to students enrolling in Ox-Bow classes for-credit. The work scholarship is equivalent to 50% of the cost of shared room and board while attending Ox-Bow.

Students work 13 hours per week while on campus in one of the following jobs: kitchen, housekeeping, grounds and maintenance. Each work study scholarship field is unique and requires teamwork with other Ox-Bow staff members in their departments. Tasks specific to these departments may change based on the time of year or priority projects but general descriptions are as follows;

• Kitchen work is often dishwashing, cleaning the dining room, or prepping ingredients for meals.

• Housekeeping is often cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors, and turning over bedrooms.

• Grounds & Maintenance is often raking leaves, snow removal, setting up tables and chairs for events, and trash removal.

Students who receive a work study scholarship will receive confirmation of their field when they arrive on campus fromOxBow’s Campus Director, Claire Arctander.

Schedules are dynamic, based on the current needs of each department and students will be scheduled to work, at times, during class. Faculty are aware they may have a student who is working toward their work study scholarship and will keep them caught up with the syllabus. Failure to complete any of the hours assigned will result in a removal of the scholarship.

Due to one seven-hour shift on the final Saturday of the session, we highly recommend that work study scholarship students drive their own car to Ox-Bow. Students who did not drive to campus or cannot get a late ride home must find local accommodations on their own. The only train out of the area leaves very early in the morning, before your shift begins on that final day. If you are not driving, please consider if it is worth it to you to purchase housing nearby in order to take advantage of the work study scholarship.

Work scholarships can only be claimed in person at Ox-Bow’s registration event in the Neiman Center starting at 8:30 a.m. CST November 13, 2023.

COMMUNITY HEALTH GUIDELINES

Ox-Bow reserves the right to update their participant guidelines in response to emergent and/or ongoing local, regional, national and/or global public health, safety and environmental concerns at any time and without warning. This includes, but is not limited to, requiring any participant to provide documentation of a negative COVID-19 test result and/or vaccination status prior to their participation, including approval for overnight accommodation.

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.

GETTING TO OX-BOW

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 public transportation is available. Please make travel arrangements early and be aware of weather conditions prior to your trip.

INFORMATION SESSION

Want to find out more about our winter session? Come to our information session on October 18, 2023 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Information Session in 1st Floor Neiman Center, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. CST

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Merit Scholarship Applications Due

Monday, November 13, 2023

Registration begins in-person in the Neiman Center, 37 S. Wabash, at 8:30 a.m.CST and online at ox-bow.org, 9:00 a.m. CST

December 8, 2023

Last day to drop your course

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