Sade DuBoise Studio

Welcome. I’m Sadé DuBoise—a visual artist, painter, and maker based in Tigard, Oregon, originally from North Portland. My work spans both traditional and functional forms: painting, sewing, and quilting.

A large part of my practice started from a community need. I began offering original 4x6 inch paintings for $100 after hearing how inaccessible original art felt to many people around me. Some laughed or criticized the idea—but I didn’t. I believed in it and made the work anyway. It has become one of the most meaningful parts of my studio practice: offering ownership to people who are so often excluded from collecting art.

My $100 originals center Black women in nature, drawing from my upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, my love for camping and backpacking, and the healing I’ve found in the outdoors. This work has grown and shifted alongside my own life. As I became a mother, my paintings turned inward—toward lineage, the body, care, exhaustion, transformation, and the ways motherhood cracks us open. Recent pieces explore the body as fruit, roots, offering, and vessel, tying together themes of race, identity, and ancestry.

I’m grateful for the path I’m on and honored to have earned my BFA from PNCA, been featured on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat, and shown work at institutions like the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. My work lives in collections at the Portland Art Museum, North Portland Library, Regional Arts and Cultural Council, North Clackamas School District, and the King School Museum of Contemporary Art.