From Napa With Love

That's a wrap!

OS32 departed yesterday and the Oxbow campus is once again blissfully...er...I mean..."eerily" silent as we power up for the summer camp. After a characteristically exhausting week of deinstallation, cleaning, packing, shipping, and (most of all) tearful celebrations of each other, these 38 best buds are once again scattered across the country. Though physically distant, these new alumni are connected for life and always welcome on our little bend of the river. A special thank you goes out to them for being arguably the sweetest semester on record - forever supportive, kind, exciting and excitable. We wish the very best of luck to these artists and scholars!

To all the parents in blog-land: thank you for sharing your children with us these four short months. What goofballs they are! We'll miss them. 

*TEDxNAPA VALLEY* Stephen Thomas: Redefining Success in Education

Will ya look at this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgoEK-9UgU&feature=em-share_video_user

OS32 OPEN HOUSE

*** FINAL SHOW THIS WEEKEND! ***

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In Summary

We're going into the last weekend of Final Projects! After days of researching and weeks of writing, proposing, revisioning, canvas stretching, foam carving, video wrangling, and getting familiar with ferric chloric acid, the time to share the fruits of all this labor draws near. At the heart of each students' process has been a topic, a question, or a theme that drove critical inquiry and creative practice. This week's post aims to share with you those essential points: each member of OS32 was asked to choose (mostly) one word that captures the essence of their Final Project, and then every advisory took a family portrait (some are wackier than others). Enjoy this double self-portrait of OS32 in words and imagery and don't forget about their Final Show on Saturday/Sunday May 16/17 at 1pm at 530 Third Street.

EAST A: ALCOHOLISM, MUSIQUE, IMAGINATION, OURSELVES, HAPPINESS?, APPEARANCE 

 EAST C: back: PERCEPTION, LANGUAGE, TEA-TIME front: MCNUGGET, CONNECTIONS

 EAST D: IMPERFECTION, PATTERNS, JELLYFISH, INJUSTICE, TRUTH 

 WEST A: back: INTERNET-PERSONA, FATALISM, TRIAL-AND-ERROR, MENSTRUATION, BEES front: CONSTRUCTION 

 WEST B (ALTER-EGO FAMILY VERSION, WITH A SHOUT OUT TO ETHAN): 

top: REALITY, CARS, ETHAN, ROBOTS middle: MIND, RELIGION 

bottom: QUANTUM PHYSICS 

 WEST C: AHHH, TRAPPED, CHARACTERS, STRUCTURE, CONTRADICTION

 WEST D top to bottom&left to right: EGOTISM, RELATIONSHIPS, INTROVERTS, ADULTHOOD, ADAPTABLE