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A Place Called Ox-Bow ... A century-long bridge between art, nature and people |
Welcome to this picture and storybook of "Ox-Bow." Saugatuck's "Ox-Bow" is a site of many human and natural wonders: marvelous culture, nature, landscape, and waterscape-unfolding from the Lake Michigan shoreline to the Kalamazoo River and the old Village of Saugatuck. It is the place that has seen an Indian community, the old harbor and lighthouse, fishing settlements, an abandoned and buried village (victim to the shifting sands), a great dune, and the sandy beaches we enjoy today. But recent history's most important of human activity at Ox-bow has unquestionably occurred at the Ox-Bow Summer School of Painting and the Arts, affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2010 the Ox-Bow School celebrates its 100th year. This exhibit will be about how for now a century the Ox-Bow School has been a bridge between nature and art for thousands of people, comprising an important chapter in the history of the lakeshore and its dunes. It asks the question: what is the essence of Ox-Bow? We hope you can help us with the answer. |
