At the Easel: Open Studio Oil Painting (Age 18+)
February 9 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm
If you’re looking to continue your adventures with oil painting, join Teaching Artist Sarah for these three-hour open studio sessions. Bring your favorite supplies or use those Art Center East has on hand. We can provide canvas paper, gesso, oil paints, odorless turpenoid, a small variety of mixing mediums, brushes, aprons, and easels (both standing and table) as well as newsprint and a variety of drawing utensils for sketching out ideas – everything an artist needs to create a masterpiece! Stretched canvas, wood boards, and canvas boards are available for purchase in house during ACE business hours. Please enter through the 5th street door.
Teaching Artist: Sarah Bird
Cost: $30 Member / $35 Non-Member
Location: Art Center East
Date
- Feb 09 2026
Time
- 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost
- $30.00
Location
- 1006 Penn Ave, La Grande, OR
Teaching Artist
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Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird is a professional oil painter whose work is shown in Ketchum, ID, Block Island, RI, and Cape Cod, MA. She is a graduate of the four-year core program at Grand Central Atelier (GCA) in New York City and has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Her work is studio and still life-based, but it combines elements of landscape and personal history. Sarah enjoys teaching and passing on the drawing and oil painting processes she learned at GCA from her teacher, Jacob Collins. These processes are realist: they recall painting styles from the nineteenth century. The particular skills involved give students a thorough introduction to oils and are a place from which they can develop their own styles.
