The start of 2024 has been an exciting season for many Ox-Bow Artists and Alumni. Awards were received, interviews published, and exhibitions opened! Join us as we celebrate the following Alumni’s accomplishments:
(left) Headshot of jina valentine. Image courtesy of the artist. (right) Kelly Lloyd giving an artist talk at Ox-Bow. Photo by Hai-Wen Lin (Summer Fellow, 2022)
jina valentine & Kelly Lloyd
An interview conducted by Lloyd, featuring valentine was published in the Winter 2024 issue of BOMB Magazine.
The Ox-Bow Connection:
jina valentine has taught during three of Ox-Bow’s sessions since 2019, some of which she directly discusses in the interview with Kelly Lloyd.
Kelly Lloyd has spent time at Ox-Bow as both an Artist-in-Residence (2015) and as Faculty, leading the courses HAIR! HAIR! HAIR! (2017) and Party as Form (co-taught with Alex Chitty, 2022).
(left) Headshot of Salvador Jiménez-Flores. (right) Salvador Jiménez-Flores, A Hand Gesture to Systemic Racism: Al que le quede el saco que se lo ponga, 2022, earthenware, stoneware, black stain, underglaze, glaze, wood, steel, graphite, and latex paint, 96 x 60 x 20 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
Salvador Jiménez-Flores
A feature published in New City Art celebrates Jiménez-Flores’s exhibition eagle, serpiente, nopalli.
The Ox-Bow Connection:
Jiménez-Flores first joined Ox-Bow as a TA for a screenprinting course in 2013 and has since taught at Ox-Bow as one of our Core Faculty in 2014, 2017, 2019, and 2020. During his sessions on campus he has taught everything from woodfire to a course on flora, fauna, and narrative.
Caption: (left) Helen Lee, Alphabit, 2018, glass murrine, low-iron float glass, stainless steel, aluminum, acrylic, LEDs, 36 x 18 x 48 inches; (right) Tammie Rubin, Unknow Ritual Mask, 2023, red stoneware, underglaze, 33h x 18w x 18w inches. Images courtesy of the artists.
Helen Lee (Faculty 2019) and Tammie Rubin (Visiting Artist 2024)
Appointed 2024 USA Fellows.
The Ox-Bow Connection:
Helen Lee, a glass artist based in Madison, Wisconsin, taught A Body in Motion during the Summer of 2019 at Ox-Bow.
Tammie Rubin will join us on campus this summer as a Visiting Artist.
Headshot of Cate O’Connell-Richards. Image courtesy of the artist.
Cate O'Connell-Richards (Instructor 2023-2024)
Recipient of the 2024 Craft Research Fund Project Grant at Center for Craft
The Ox-Bow Connection
O’Connell-Richards first came to campus as an Art on the Meadow Instructor in 2023. They return to teach the same workshop Broom Making Basics, June 4–7, 2024.
Ox-Bow is proud to platform a range of voices, ideas, and perspectives through its Efroymson Family Fund Visiting Artist Program. Every week of summer session, a new artist comes to campus to participate in the community, most notably through an artist talk open to everyone on campus.