Oh Duehr Studio
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Oh Duehr Studio 🌀✨🎨
Oh Duehr (dear) Studio is a virtual art program for learning, connection, and creative expression — open to artists at any stage, anywhere. Led by Artist and Educator Emma Duehr, sessions offer instruction, guided critique, and prompts across oil painting, watercolor, figure drawing, printmaking, and additional mixed media. The program meets you exactly where you are — in the comforts of your own life — while advancing your practice alongside a live, ongoing community.
Join from your couch, your kitchen table, your art studio, or wherever your practice happens. A small group meets weekly, building the kind of accountability and community that comes from consistently showing up — and watching your work, and each other's, develop over time. All sessions are held virtually, with live instruction and real-time interaction. Each program is designed to equip you with the materials, information, safety knowledge, and tutorials needed to build a lasting creative practice at home.
One-on-one sessions and mentorship are also available for artists who want more individualized guidance.
Oh Duehr Studio began in Portland, Oregon, out of Emma's own backyard studio.
What to Expect
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Each session focuses on a specific medium, subject, or process. No experience is necessary; you can expect to learn something new simply by showing up.
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Sessions are led with intentional facilitation, giving equal attention and space for each participant's expression within a guided time frame.
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Feedback happens in both one-on-one and informal group critique formats, so everyone has the chance to be heard.
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Sessions prioritize comfort, safety, and respect, so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
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These are intentional gathering spaces built for a shared purpose — to support, understand, and encourage one another in a communal creative practice.
Upcoming Experiences
November 4th - November 18th, 2026
Wednesdays 6PM-8PM PT (3 sessions)
This series is designed to open up your creative movement, expression, and process. Use this weekly meeting to connect mind, body, and expression in a low-pressure environment. There are no formal tutorials teaching a specific method — this is a space to reawaken your creative instincts and create a whimsical environment for the process to flow.
Open to all ages and levels of experience. Capacity: 15 per session.
Investment: $100 for the 3-session program. Pay monthly or in full — full payment secures your spot in the cohort.
Materials are gathered independently; a list will be sent before the first session.
Open to all ages and levels of experience. Capacity: 15 per session.
Investment: $150 for the 3-session program. Pay monthly or in full — full payment secures your spot in the cohort.
January 6th - February 17th, 2027
Wednesdays 6PM-8:30PM PT (7 sessions)
An introduction to figure drawing and oil painting using charcoal and graphite. If you've been wanting to learn oil painting, understand accurate proportion, or find an intentional creative community focused on advancing your at-home studio practice, this program is built for you. Each session includes tutorials, group and independent feedback, and dedicated practice time.
Open to all ages and levels of experience. Capacity: 15 per session.
Investment: $600 for the 7-session program. Pay monthly or in full — a $100 deposit secures your spot in the cohort.
Materials are gathered independently; a list will be sent before the first session.
Open to all ages and levels of experience. Capacity: 15 per session.
Investment: $600 for the 7-session program. Pay monthly or in full — a $100 deposit secures your spot in the cohort.
Materials are gathered independently; a list will be sent before the first session.
Bundle Program:
Interested in joining all three? Bundle pricing is available. These programs are designed to build on one another — together, they tell a connected story I'd love to share with you in full.
Expressive Fundamentals: $150
Winter Program: $600
Self Expression & Self Portraits: $500
Total: $1,000 Investment · 14 weeks
Materials are gathered independently; a list will be sent before the first session.
March 3rd - March 24th, 2027
Wednesdays 6PM-8:30PM PT (4 sessions)
Our bodies are art, and deserve celebration, expression, and connection. This series explores body language, color in relation to feeling, and capturing the essence of an emotion in a creative piece — a chance to see, celebrate, and get to know yourself through a new creative outlet.
Open to ages 18+, all levels of experience. Capacity: 15 per session.
Investment: $500 for the 4-session program. Pay biweekly or in full — a $100 deposit secures your spot in the cohort.
Materials are gathered independently; a list will be sent before the first session.
Open to ages 18+, all levels of experience. Capacity: 15 per session.
Investment: $500 for the 4-session program. Pay biweekly or in full — a $100 deposit secures your spot in the cohort.
Materials are gathered independently; a list will be sent before the first session.
meet your instructor
EMMA DUEHR (dear)
Emma (she/her) is a full-time Artist and Educator based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in fabrication across 2D, 3D, digital, and electronic forms, and in the collaboration of mixed materials and methods.
Emma earned her BFA in Studio Arts from Clarke University, with a double emphasis in Sculpture and Painting, and her MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University, where she is the Manager and Instructor at PSU's COTA Workshop Facilities.
Oh Duehr Studio grew out of that same practice — the oil painting, watercolor, figure drawing, and printmaking Emma has always made and studied, but doesn't formally teach in her college role. Founded as an act of intention and a love of facilitation, the program is Emma's way of sharing creative space and process with a wider audience: a kind of backyard-style mentorship, built on the same rigor as her academic work, made personal and accessible. Oh Duehr Studio began in her backyard studio in Woodstock Village, SE Portland.