Collaboration

This week OS29 bid farewell to their second visiting artist, Dan Havel. Dan hails from Houston, Texas, where he teaches art at St. John's School and works as a partner in the artist collaborative Havel Ruck Projects. Throughout Dan's Oxbow residency, students explored structure, architecture, and interactions between space and place. Using basic supplies--maps, blueprints, foam core, and other architectural model-making materials--each student created a small artwork. The individual works were then installed in a common space, and elements were added--paint, tape, string--to visually weave the pieces together. Through an extended process of collaborative revision, the installation was added to and subtracted from, each student making modifications to support the cohesive whole. The entire Oxbow community celebrated and admired the final installation at OS29's first official 'gallery opening' -- oooohs and ahhhhs abounded as guests sipped on sparkling cider and munched on popcorn. Thank you, Dan, for leading OS29 through such an exciting collaborative project!

JJ surveys the revision process

Grace adds finishing touches

Installation detail

OS29 in front of the final installation