Sade DuBoise Studio

Welcome.

I'm Sadé DuBoise — visual artist, painter, and maker. I'm North Portland raised, now based in Tigard, Oregon, where the parks and trails give my kids room to roam and remind me daily why the natural world keeps showing up in my work. My practice moves between painting, sewing, and quilting: wherever the idea needs to go.

A lot of my work started from something I heard over and over — that original art felt out of reach. So I did something about it. I began offering 4×6 inch original paintings for $100, and people thought I was joking. I wasn't. That decision became one of the most alive parts of my practice — putting original work directly into the hands of people who've been told collecting isn't for them.

These small paintings center Black women in nature. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, camping and backpacking through landscapes that healed me even when I didn't have language for it yet, and that love lives in the work. But the work has never stayed still. When I became a mother, something cracked open — in me and in the paintings. The imagery shifted: toward lineage, the body under pressure, care that costs something, the particular exhaustion and transformation of raising a life. Now I also paint the body as fruit, as root system, as vessel and offering. Race, identity, ancestry — held together in the same canvas.

I hold a BFA from PNCA. My work has been featured on OPB's Oregon Art Beat and shown at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. It lives in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, North Portland Library, the Regional Arts and Cultural Council, North Clackamas School District, and the King School Museum of Contemporary Art.

I'm grateful for all of it — and I'm still making.