Art on the Meadow Workshops Fall

Our Fall Art on the Meadow series will offer affordable, short-term opportunities to learn new ways of making with a distinctly autumnal flair. Check out our 2024 offerings below.

If you have general questions about the workshops or need assistant registering, please email Jon Lewis, Campus Office Coordinator at jlewis@ox-bow.org.

Artist Bios

Christen Baker is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the complex relationship between the economy of attention and desire, and information architecture. In exploring the intersection of technology, media, and visual art, Baker utilizes glass, neon, photography and 3d scanning to create a new visual lexicon that speaks to the subtle and often indirect ways in which attention and desire shape our perception of the world around us. Baker earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She was a lecturer in Ceramics and Kiln-Formed Glass at Kansas City Art Institute and has completed residencies at UrbanGlass Window Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Belger Arts in Kansas City, MO, and the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary and was awarded the Leroy Nieman Fellowship in Glass at Oxbow School of Art and Artist Residency. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, where she continues to explore the geographies of public spaces and objects, real and imagined.

Jack Ridl, Poet Laureate of Douglas, Michigan (Population 1100), is the author of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch (Wayne State University Press). His Practicing to Walk Like a Heron (WSUPress, 2013) was co-recipient of the National Gold Medal for Best Collection of Poetry by ForeWord Reviews. His collection Broken Symmetry (WSUPress) was co-recipient of The Society of Midland Authors best book of poetry award for 2006. His Losing Season (CavanKerry Press) was named the best sports book of the year for 2009 by The Institute for International Sport. Then Poet Laureate Billy Collins selected his Against Elegies for The Center for Book Arts Chapbook Award. Individual poems have been published in The Georgia Review, Poetry, Colorado Review, Rattle, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, Poetry East, and elsewhere.The students at Hope College named him both their Outstanding Professor and their Favorite Professor, and in 1996 The Carnegie (CASE) Foundation named him Michigan Professor of the Year. More than 85 of Jack’s students have earned their MFA degree and over 100 are published, several of whom have received First Book Awards, national honors. Every Thursday Jack hosts and posts on YouTube his monologue “The Sentimentalist.”For further information about Jack, his website is www.ridl.com.

Meridith Ridl is an artist and an art teacher Holland Public Schools. Much of her painting and drawing work explores gestures that might suggest tenderness, humor, gentleness, loneliness…arrangements that might have a wobble, or that ""aren’t quite right."" Her work ranges from meditative, delicate, and quiet to more tipsy and quirky. She recieved a BA in Studio Art from the College of Wooster and MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work is represented by Lafontsee Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI. He first illustrated book (The Lake Michigan Mermaid by authors Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen was given a Michigan Notable Book Award in 2019.

Elizabeth Schmuhl is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that explores nature, movement, and memory. Schmuhl deeply investigates the natural world, its cycles, and entropy, all of which inform her work. Schmuhl is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Premonitions (Wayne State University Press). Her book of paintings created with natural ink from her centennial fruit farm in Benton Harbor, The Four Seasons, is out from Greying Ghost Press. Fishes of the Great Lakes, a book containing paintings with natural inks made entirely from the Great Lake watershed and materials that surround it, is her newest art book. She has shared her work globally and holds an MFA and a BA (University of Michigan). Schmuhl has taught at University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and elsewhere.

Christina Sweeney is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and collaborator from South Florida. She works predominantly with wool, pigments, clay and the found object while addressing themes of protection, climate, harsh weather realities and labor and production. Christina received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and has been living in between West Michigan,New York City and Chicago ever since. She enjoys working on community based projects and meeting new people. When not in the studio or working for arts non-profts you can find her at the beach or lakefront.

All images provided courtesy of the artists.