For Ox-Bow’s second winter program, we have designed three courses to take advantage of Ox-Bow's unique setting and small classroom environments. Free from most distraction, these classes are ideal for the serious student who needs the time and space to take their art to the next level. With only seven students in each course, those enrolled will have unparalleled access to faculty for guidance and critique. The Ox-Bow environment is made for experimentation, these courses allow students a safe and nurturing environment for pushing boundaries. The three courses are designed to complement each other, to allow for unprecedented collaboration and exchange. Faculty members Carl Baratta, Mary Walling Blackburn, Tom Lauerman and Shannon Goff will create an environment for learning that you can't experience in the traditional classroom. Each course is designed specifically to make the most of Ox-Bow's unique landscape and attitude, as well as to offer students the opportunity to look at those issues in artmaking that are most important to them.
The 2008 Winter Course Offerings at Ox-Bow:
CER 619 001
Method and Manipulation in the Ceramic Process
Instructor: Shannon Goff and Tom Lauerman
3 credit hours
$150 Lab Fee
Students develop and refine their personal direction in ceramics through experimentation. Whether handbuilding, casting, or throwing, students expand the boundaries of the material, break the rules, surprise themselves, and develop more personal ceramic processes. Examples of topics for experimentation include manipulating the elasticity of clay, extremes of thinness and thickness, contradictions of form and function, and the relationships of the object to the environment or body. Various temperatures and firing processes are available.
PAINTING 622 001
How to Steal
Instructor: Carl Baratta
3 credit hours
This studio course will consider ways to appropriate imagery and concepts from source material for the creation of original works. Using a variety of sources, including Ox-Bow's unique wintry landscape as the foundation for this class' investigation, students will consider various strategies to convey personal meaning through life drawing, the use of borrowed images, and personal iconography. Students will need to bring their gathered source material on their laptops or in their portfolios (laptops are not required). The scope of this class will incorporate a variety of sources and studio work. Group discussions and outside drawing and painting will be equally important aspects of this course.
UGDIV 601 001
Winter's Darker Iconography: Its Horror, Its Humor
Instructor: Mary Walling Blackburn
3 credit hours ***This class can be taken for Graduate Credit
$50 Lab Fee
This interdisciplinary studio course will explore winter's darker iconography: the mechanized, the frost-bitten, the stormbound, the avalanche, the denuded ski slope, the snow-bound cannibal, the snowmobile drag race accident, the ice-bound ship, the popular demand for the frozen sperm of a newly discovered Ice Man. Students will build objects, write texts, and perform works, as well as design and build snow caves, and rethink the aesthetics and ornamentation surrounding such winter kitsch as the seasonal ornament, the gingerbread house, the Mexican Santa Claus horror genre of cinema. Reading, writings, and films will explore winter as building material, site specific space, and will conceptualize themes that have culturally accumulated around winter.
Add/Drop, Residency, Tuition/Financial Aid
Add/Drop
Registration for Ox-Bow's Winter Interim courses begins on November 12 at 8:30 am in Room 1209 Sullivan Center. Students MUST register for Ox-Bow courses in person.
Credit can be used to fulfill undergraduate and graduate degree requirements, and can help fulfill the Off-Campus Study Requirement.
Students will be provided with a registration form when they come to register. Students can also apply for a work scholarship at the time of registration. SPACE IN CLASSES IS EXTREMELY LIMITED, registration as well as work scholarships are awarded on a first come, first served basis.
Students are REQUIRED to submit a $150 NON-REFUNDABLE deposit when registering for a Winter Interim class at Ox-Bow. This deposit is payable by check written to SAIC or payable by credit card through SAIC's payment partner Tuition Management Systems (www.afford.com).
Drops/Cancellation
Students wishing to drop a winter Ox-Bow course must drop classes by 4:30 pm on December 17, 2007 to receive a refund. If dropped prior to December 17, students will receive a full refund minus the $150 non-refundable deposit. Drops must be submitted in writing to the Ox-Bow office in room 1209 Sullivan Center. Ox-Bow will inform all registered students by December 19 if a course will be cancelled.
Residency
A large part of study at Ox-Bow is being part of a unique community of artists. Therefore, during the Winter Interim, all students must reside on the Ox-Bow Campus. The campus is located on 115-acres of old growth forest in the resort town of Saugatuck, MI. The Ox-Bow campus is easily reached by car, train, or bus. Students will receive an orientation guide complete with driving directions and information on what to bring to Ox-Bow. The fee for Room and Board covers all meals, as well as housing on campus.
Tuition/Financial Aid
All Winter Interim courses at Ox-Bow must be taken for-credit and it is required that all students reside on campus for the duration of their course. The costs associated with attending Ox-Bow are listed below (does not include lab fees).
Financial Aid is available for those students who are eligible. Students should complete a Winter 2008 Institutional Financial Aid Application, available in the Financial Aid section of the SAIC Portal and at the Financial Aid office in the Sullivan Center. Additionally, Ox-Bow will award seven work scholarships on a first come first served basis to interested students. Work Scholarships cancel out the cost of room and board while attending Ox-Bow. Students work 15 hours per week while on campus in one of three jobs: dishwashing, housekeeping, or grounds and maintenance. Work scholarships can be applied for at the time of registration. Ox-Bow reserves the right to deny any student a work scholarship who has previously demonstrated an inability to complete the assigned tasks.
| Tuition | Room & Board | Full Rate |
Two weeks (3 credits) UG rate: GR rate: |
$3,095 $3,420 |
$990 $990 |
$4,065 $4,410 |
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