Artist's Bio

Sarah Eaton lives, works, and teaches in Portland OR. She received her MFA cum laude from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2016, and attended the School of the Art institute of Chicago from 2000-2002, and received her BFA degree cum laude from Pacific Northwest college of art in 2005. She has shown her work nationally in galleries in Washington, Vermont, and multiple galleries throughout the Portland Metro Area. As a working artist and educator, Sarah has also worked in the Stop Motion Community as a Scenic Artist (GDT’s Pinochio, In The Know, Tiny Chef) and has worked collaboratively as a Studio Painter for large scale international puppetry projects (Disney, Universal, Wynn Casino, Broadway, and Cirque Du Soleil).

Interested in the hybrid spaces between media, her work is an interplay of painting, fiber, sculpture, and installation, through the use of transparent and layered media and imagery. With an attention to the visual space between the viewer and object/image she evokes emotion through color, essence of landscape, and the subtleties of space, memory and form.

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ARTIST'S CV

Sarah E. Eaton

sarahlizzard@gmail.com

saraheaton.org

Education

2014-2016     Masters of Fine Arts in Craft, Oregon College of Art
                               and Craft, Portland, OR 

2002-2005     BFA cum laude, Intermedia Art, Pacific Northwest College of  
                               Art, Portland, OR
          
2000-2002    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,  Undergraduate
                               Studies, Chicago, IL 

1996-2000    Union 32 High School, Diploma Earned, with honors

1997             The Governor's Institute for the Arts, summer studies: Sculpture, 
                               Painting, Castleton, VT

Honors/Awards/Scholarships
     
2014      Oregon College of Art and Craft Tuition Grant Scholarship 

2001      1 of  5 nominees out of 900  for Freshman Fellowship: full scholarship
                          award of excellence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    
2000      Scholarship, Emily Carr Institute 

2000       Foreman Art Scholarship: Full Scholarship,  Hartwick College

2000       Central Vermont Paletteers Annual Scholarship

1997       Selected for Governor's Institute for the Arts: 2 week residency
    

Exhibitions

2021 Online exhibition, Dappled Light Gallery

2016     Group Show, Creating a Place for Home, Duplex Gallery, Portland OR

2015     Group Show, Impetus, Hoffman Gallery, Portland OR
    
2014     Group Show, The Big 500, Peoples Art of Portland, Benefit for the
                   Oregon Food Bank, Portland, OR
    
2014     Temporary Show/collaborative, The Year of the Horse, Refuge,
                   Portland, OR
    
2013     Solo Show, Dreaming Reality (exhibition), Live Painting, Horizon
                   Events Benefit, Portland, OR

2013     Collaborative, Tree of Life, Private Event Space, Portland, OR (live
                   painting in collaboration with Djo Fortunato)    

2012     Collaborative, Community , Portland, OR ( live painting in
                  collaboration with Djo Fortunato)

2012     Group Show, Collaborations, Everette Street Lofts, Portland, OR  

2011      Group Show, KBOO Benefit, The Watershed Art Collective,    
                    Portland, OR    

2009     Solo Show,  Insight, The Brews Brothers, Portland, OR

2008   Solo Show, Mythological Creatures, The Blue Monk, Portland, OR

2008   Group Show, Horizons, Planned Parenthood, Portland, OR  
    
2006     3 person Show, Orbs and Orifices, converted gallery space, Food Hole, 
                  first Thursday opening, Portland, OR     
    
2006     Group Show, Mississippi May, Independent Artists Movement,     
                   warehouse gallery conversion, Portland OR (curator Joshua Wallace)
    
2005     Thesis Exhibition,  Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

2005      Gallery Opening/Premier, group show, White Salmon, WA

2004      Public Event, A Night to Perform, "Can I Laugh or Cry" Performance,   
                     Pacific Northwest College of Art, Commons Gallery, Portland, OR

2004    Group Show, Feist Restaurant and Bar, Portland, OR

2000      Group Show, (art made on site),  Firehouse Gallery, Burlington VT

Commissions

2021 Private commission, Abstract Landscape, New York

2017    Custom Acrylic Painting, Private, Montpelier, VT 

2012    Custom Acrylic Painting, "Release of Energy (hand)",  Private

2012    Published Book Cover, Acrylic (2x3.5 ft.), "RUOK", Hale Mednik

2011     Album Cover, Sons of Soil "Green Reggae", Portland, OR

2006     Mural, Acrylic (2.5x7 ft.), Veggie Thai Restaurant, Portland OR

Curatorial

2020 Dappled Light Gallery, curator and co-founder, Virtual Gallery

2015      Co-curator, ‘The Space Between’, Ash Street Project, Portland
                    OR  

Teaching Experience

2020 Drawing and Painting Instructor, Vibe, Portland, OR

2019 Drawing and Painting Instructor, OCAC Community School Portland, OR

2017    Art Instructor, Body Vox, Portland, OR

2015    Ceramics Instructor, VIBE Arts Program, Portland, OR

2014    Art Classes, Montessori Learning Center, The Children's Garden,  
                   Portland, OR 

2014    Private Multimedia Art Classes, Poa Cafe, Portland, OR

2009-2013  Art Teacher, Montessori based learning, Giving Tree Preschool,
                        Portland, OR

2005-2012   Art Teacher/Instructor, SUN Program, Portland, Gresham, OR 

2003    Visiting Artist/Instructor, Humanities Camp, Vermont Council on
                    the Humanities, Montpelier, VT

2000      Workshop, Unity Summit, Vermont Council on the
                   Humanities, Bolton, VT