Ox-Bow’s summer program has a long, rich history of offering one and two-week intensives for credt and non-credit. It is designed to offer serious artists and art students the opportunity to work closely with faculty and visiting artists, while enjoying the focus and time to concentrate completely on projects and the process of artmaking. Through Ox-Bow’s partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago these courses can be taken for credit or non-credit.
From June through August, students can work in any of our six main studio areas—Ceramics, Glass, Painting and Drawing, Papermaking, Print, and Sculpture. Most of our sculpture courses are metals oriented (blacksmithing, jewelry, light metals, and iron casting) or site-specific, utilizing the vast and varied landscape of Ox-Bow. We are always expanding our programming to offer unique courses that students and artists can’t get elsewhere; look for new classes in a variety of different studio areas.
Respected faculty from well-known institutions are invited to each summer, supplements by a rotating group of visiting artists and scholars who arrive each week to share their work, their insight and their successes with students.
In January 2008, Ox-Bow will host its second Winter Interim session. With the success of last year’s first Winter courses, we are all very excited to witness the synergy of this year’s programmatic offerings. With courses in painting, ceramics, and an interdisciplinary studio, we are certain the twenty-one students who join us on campus this winter will find the same rigor, inspiration and sense of community that makes Ox-Bow such a unique environment in which to learn.