Oxbow faculty Alex Keilty and Megan Broughton attend selective residency in the Arctic.

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Napa Valley Register: 10 Questions - Head of School Seeks Creative Side of Students

作者:詹妮弗·霍夫曼

2012年10月16日



Stephen 托马斯。 is the founding director and head of school at the Oxbow School in Napa. Oxbow is a visual arts–oriented, one-semester boarding school located in downtown Napa.

托马斯。, who has been an educator since 1984, described what he likes about working with high school students. “Their never-ending creativity,” as well as their idealism, energy and hope, he said.

To read full article and his responses to all 10 questions click on the above link.

纳帕登记册2010年10月24日

English teacher Jennifer Jordan demonstrates book binding.

詹妮弗·霍夫曼

Napa’s Oxbow School is not your conventional high school.

Seeking admission, an Oxbow applicant recently submitted a small suitcase. Inside, the case contained a dress made from her own design out of a netting-like material. 折叠成裙子

This “self-portrait” — a requirement for admission — is but one of countless ways that the Oxbow School, a private arts boarding school serving both local students and those from across the U.S.，与众不同.

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Oxbow School's 新 creation is a 'site of imagination'

REBECCA YERGERNapa Valley RegisterSaturday, October 9, 2010 12:00 am

Secluded along the banks of the Napa river on the Oxbow School campus is a garden of inspiration.

Rooted — literally — in garden design history and academic discourse about nature versus industry, this outdoor classroom and its design concepts encourage contemplation of its principles and hypotheses as well as abstract thinking and creativity.

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血液检测:小诺伯特·加西亚., of Tucson, touches up a giant red blood cell for his final project on AIDS.

Edutopia杂志2006年7月

Under a blue sky during the cool northern 加州 winter, Michael Lopez was conducting first-person research for his final art project at the Oxbow School, a semester-long art program in the Napa Valley. Lopez's subject was low-wage labor, and his research that afternoon consisted of raking leaves. 当他工作时, he ticked off the skills he had learned in fifteen weeks at the school: time management, 自我控制, a research-based approach to creating art, and confidence in his ability to talk about his ideas. Strange lessons learned at an art school? 也许. But just the sort of skills Oxbow's faculty intend to teach...

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2002年2月艺术周
科林·贝瑞

It overlooks a narrow bend in the river, the eponymous oxbow that sends the muddy Napa flowing west, 再向南, 朝旧金山湾方向. 从街上, its five square buildings stand in stoic contrast to the modest Victorians that line the neighborhood’s shady streets. Although it comprises just over three acres, 牛轭学校很小, one-of-a-kind boarding school in Napa, 加州, that features visual arts at the center of its curriculum—feels much bigger, 就像大学校园, a spiritual retreat or a private community. 在某种程度上, 牛轭就是所有这些, and for six years has been trying to prove the legitimacy of an intensive, 艺术形式, interdisciplinary semester program for teenagers.

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