2020 Winter Catalog

Winter Session January 5-18, 2020

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Come to Ox-Bow and participate in our January Winter Session!

Winter is a great time to enjoy Ox-Bow’s landscape, live and work in a small community of artists and to enjoy quiet, uninterrupted time for making. This winter, we are offering three for-credit courses, Fiber & Material Studies, Painting and Graduate Projects. With the successful completion of the course students receive 3 credits for the two-week intensive course. Students reside on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan and enjoy 24/7 access to the studios, delicious meals prepared daily and discussions with a small community of peers.

A class at Ox-Bow fulfills a portion of SAIC’s off-campus study requirements.

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Graduate Projects taught by: MAT T MORRIS MFA 6009 ||

3 credits

Ox-Bow offers currently enrolled MFA students the opportunity to independently study at vOx-Bow over the winter session. Students have their own studios and can work on projects of their design, either in response to the specific environment of Ox-Bow or

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to prepare for their thesis shows.

The winter session at Ox-Bow is small and hosts no more than 30 students on campus.

Faculty and students have the unique opportunity of living and working on campus Matt Morris, Installation view of MADAME WEB, casein on mahogany panels, 2018

together, sharing meals and growing in community of dedicated, thoughtful artists.

Students reside in Ox-Bow’s Main Inn which also houses the dining room with a fireplace, the main office and the lecture room. Student rooms and bathrooms are shared. A full orientation guide will be provided at registration.

-----Cover image by: Brandon Dill Faculty images supplied by artist

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M AT T M O RRIS

Matt Morris works against repression. Painting, perfume, textiles, and conceptual projects serve as means for his work to operate as redresses of art historical canons, personal family histories, and radical notions of queer kinship. Morris is an artist, writer, educator, and curator based in Chicago. He has presented artwork nationally and internationally including Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York; RUSCHMAN, Berlin, Germany; Krabbesholm Højskole, Skive, Denmark; 12.26, Aspen, CO; DePaul Art Museum, and Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; The Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; The Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI; and The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. He is a contributor to Artforum.com, Flash Art, The Seen and X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly; and many others.

He is a transplant from southern Louisiana who earned an MFA in Art Theory + Practice from Northwestern University, as well as a Certificate in Gender + Sexuality Studies. In 2017 he earned a Certification in Fairyology from Doreen Virtue, PhD. Morris is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Winter Weaving taught by: kg FIBERS 621 || 3 credit hours Lab Fee: $50 Weaving is a process for contemporary makers to explore narratives of identity, labor, history and the body. This course explores weaving’s connection to narrative, addressing how meaning can be made through conceptual and process-based approaches. Students will learn weaving techniques and execute a number of finished works. Students will focus on narrative in relationship to weaving through imagery, found objects, woven structure, performance, display, warp, and weft relationships, color, and dig into the process of weaving itself as narrative work.

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kg was born in Poland, 1980, lives and works in Chicago, and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include Blue Out Of My Mouth at Freerange Gallery, Chicago, Changeling at Julius Caesar, Chicago, and Alter at Terrain, Oak Park, IL. In January, 2019 kg hung a solo exhibition, Some Kind Of Duty at the DePaul Art Museum that included a participatory badminton field made in collaboration

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with artist Betsy Odom. kg attended the

kg, The Way the Wind Blows, 11” x 10”, 2018

kg, Blue Eyes, 10”x9”, 2018

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017 and the Vermont Studio Center as a fellow in 2018.

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Multilevel Painting: Form, Process, & Meaning taught by: MIKE CLOUD PAINTING 605 || 3 credit hours Lab Fee: $50

This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems.

Emphasis will be placed on active decision-making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting process in relation to form and meaning. Students will pursue various interests in subject matter.

Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations, lectures and critiques will be included.

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Mike Cloud, Dialogue of Growth, oil on canvas, 91.5” x 30.5”, 2014, Image courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC, NY.

MIKE CLOUD

Mike Cloud is a painter whose work examines the conditions of painting in its contemporary life among countless reproductions, symbols and descriptions. Cloud earned his M.F.A. from Yale University and his B.F.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago. His work has been exhibited at MoMA P.S.1, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovak Republic; Honor Fraser Gallery, CA; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; White Columns, NY and Max Protetch, NY. Cloud has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum and featured in the survey ‘Painting Abstraction’ by Bob Nickas, published by Phaidon Press. His work is held in private and public collections including The Bronx Museum, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cloud has lectured on his work and contemporary theoretical art issues at numerous schools including the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Yale University, Cooper Union, Bard College, Kansas City Art Institute and the New York Studio School. He is currently Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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TUITION + FEES

SAIC TUITION

ROOM & BOARD

TOTAL

WORK SCHOLARSHIP

UGRD/ Post-Bac

$4,998

$1,200

$6,198

-$1,200

GRAD

$5,190

$1,200

$6,390

-$1,200

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Payment options include check written to SAIC or credit card payment through SAIC’s payment partner CASHnet, which is accessible through Peoplesoft Self Service.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Ox-Bow Merit Scholarship Ox-Bow will award a limited number of partial merit scholarships this winter.

Applications are due Friday, October 25, 2019 at midnight.

All students are eligible to apply. Students who receive a scholarship are able to pre-register for their preferred course but must still sign up for work scholarship in-person. Apply online at ox-bow.org.

Ox-Bow Work Scholarships Ox-Bow will award 10 work scholarships on a first come, first-served basis to interested students. The work scholarship is equivalent to the cost of room and board while attending Ox-Bow. Students work 15 hours per week while on campus in one of 3 jobs: dishwashing, housekeeping, or grounds + maintenance. Work scholarships can be applied for at the time of registration on November 11th.

SAIC FINANCIAL AID Undergraduate and graduate students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago may be able to use

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their financial aid award and merit scholarships from SAIC toward for-credit tuition for courses at Ox-Bow. Students will need to complete an SAIC Winter 2019 Institutional Financial Aid Application available at www.saic.edu/ faforms. Applications must be submitted before the term begins.

Please contact the SAIC Student Financial Services office or refer to the application for exact deadlines. Financial aid typically does not cover room and board or lab fees at Ox-Bow. Learn more about applying at the School’s Office of Financial Aid, by calling 312.629.6600, or by emailing saic.sfs@saic.edu.

DROP POLICY Students wishing to drop a winter course must drop their class by 4:30pm on December 12th to receive a refund. All drops must be submitted in writing (please note that you cannot drop an Ox-Bow course using PeopleSoft self-serve). From the time of registration to 4:30pm on December 12th, students will receive a full

refund minus the $250 drop fee and any associated lab fees. If dropped after the 12th, no refunds will be given.

In cases of a documented emergency, students may go through SAIC’s refund review process.

REGISTRATION In-person registration and work scholarship sign-up begins Monday, November 11, 2019 at 8:30 AM at the Ox- Bow office. Students interested in work scholarships must registerin-person at the OxBow office.

Online registration will begin at 1:00 PM CST at ox-bow.org.

If you are a low-res student unable to attend in-person registration, you may either send a proxy or register online.

Join us for INFO SESSIONS!!

Want to find out more about our winter session? Come to an information session + enjoy some pizza on the first floor of the Neiman Center (37 South Wabash) on October 21st, 4:15pm.

Can’t make it? Visit our office, Sullivan 14th floor, 9-5pm Monday-Friday to have your questions answered and learn more about the winter program.

GETTING TO OX-BOW Our campus is located in Saguatuck, MI about 2 ½ hours from Chicago.

Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to campus.

Many students choose to carpool or take the bus from Chicago. Please make travel arrangements early and be aware of weather conditions prior to your trip.

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IMPORTANT DATES OCTOBER 25 Winter Scholarship Applications Due NOVEMBER 11 Winter Registration Begins & Winter Work Study Scholarship Sign-up Day DECEMBER 12 Last day to drop winter course

INFO SESSIONS OCTOBER 15, 12:00-1:00pm 2nd Floor Neiman Center, Sharp bldg.

OCTOBER 21, 4:15-5:15PM 1st Floor Neiman Center, Sharp bldg.

OCTOBER 23, 12:00-1:00p 2nd Floor Neiman Center, Sharp bldg.

NOVEMBER 1, NOON-1:00 2nd Floor Neiman Center, Sharp bldg.

NOVEMBER 5, NOON-1:00 2nd Floor Neiman Center, Sharp bldg.

---STAY CONNECTED @oxbowschoolofart LEARN MORE www.ox-bow.org COME VISIT US! 36 S. Wabash, room 1425 (Sullivan bldg., 14TH flr,)

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PROUDLY AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, A MAJOR SPONSOR OF OX-BOW