Strategic Plan 2025-2030

Nurturing artists & building community since 1910

Ox-Bow is a creative community that values education, environment, community and history through programs that emphasize care all the way through from conception to execution, inclusive to all participants: staff, faculty, students, residents and board. We believe in caring for our campus, our environment, our field, our community and our history through practices that keep sustainability at the forefront, whether that is staff capacity or environmental footprint.

Making in community is at the foundation of the Ox-Bow philosophy, an experience that goes beyond art to skill-building in interrelatedness. Brave conversations, compassion and intergenerational exchange are part of the practice: skills that impact civic life beyond the studio.

My vision for Ox-Bow is to commit to our values of community building and care with a belief that these values, when practiced intentionally on a small scale, can reverberate out to our larger world and support positive change.

– Shannon R. Stratton, Executive Director