INSTRUCTORS

Rebecca Mannheimer is co-owner of Oregon Art Supply. She moved to Eugene in 1997 and has been teaching on and off since she graduated with a BFA degree from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (P.N.C.A.) in Portland, OR. Rebecca currently maintains a studio in her home where she paints while running STUDIO NORTH. She has taught a variety of mediums from basic drawing, encaustic, still life painting, collage and abstract mixed media painting. Rebecca has exhibited her work at Maude Kerns, “Conversations” a group show of Eugene Women Artists, the Eugene Biennial, The Mayor’s Art Show and shows in Corvallis and Portland Oregon. She currently has an annual show with a group of fellow women artists at STUDIO NORTH where she and her fellow artist respond to a unique directive each year,

Jan Lintz settled in Eugene in 2007. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in painting and sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 while also working at University Hospital cardiac ICU. She painted, exhibited, and did medical illustration on the side, returning to school in Chicago and graduating in 2001 to practice family medicine. Since retiring in 2020 she has been immersed in painting full-time.
Jan has developed a special interest in oil and cold wax medium (CWM). She studies directly with coldwax pioneers and authors Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin, traveling to Mexico, Ireland, and Colorado for in-person intensive workshops with them. She is also an ongoing member/participant of their online Coldwax Academy.
She has been busy showing her work in multiple solo, group, and juried shows. Jan has decades of empathic teaching experience with both patients and medical providers and is excited to teach at OAS, sharing her enthusiasm for cold wax medium.
See Jan's art and her current show and event announcements at

Eventually, life reminded me that I needed to slow down. After years of pouring everything I had into my photography business, I found myself needing to step away and focus on my health. I wasn’t looking for a new career—I simply couldn’t imagine a life without creating. So, in December 2019, I picked up a watercolor brush for the first time since high school because I needed to create

Watercolor taught me something I didn’t know I needed to learn. After years of trying to control every detail behind the camera, watercolor invited me to loosen up, embrace the unexpected, and trust the process. It reminded me that some of the most beautiful things happen when we stop chasing perfection.

I’ve been creating for as long as I can remember. I’ve always been curious. As a little girl, I was forever coloring, making things, taking pictures, and wondering, “What if?” I don’t think that part of me ever grew up.

Jan Halvorsen grew up in Oregon, on both sides of the Cascades. She has always been a painter, starting young when she drew maps and cities on her bedroom floor (left uncarpeted by her very smart mother) and illustrated her sister’s stories. Jan graduated from the University of Oregon with a BFA in printmaking where her primary medium was lithography. Lithography allowed a focus on what she really loves to do... drawing. The collaborative culture of the printmaking studio was also a valuable experience. After several years working in graphic design, illustration, and video/film production, Jan taught in the Media Arts program at LCC from 1999 to 2022.

Beth I. Robinson is an artist and has been the paper conservator at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art for over ten years. She earned a BFA in Book Arts and printmaking from the Oregon College of Art and Craft as a Ford Restart Scholar. She is currently restoring a Chandler & Price letterpress, walking her dogs, and is a member of the PNW Collage Collective.

Zoë Cohen, contemporary abstract painter, has been teaching at Oregon Art Supply since 2015. Born in Chicago to a family of artists in the 1960’s, she was immersed in mid-century art and design from an early age. She gradated with a BFA from University of Oregon in 1985 and has exhibited her work in Oregon, Washington, California, New Mexico and New York. Zoë’s favorite thing about teaching is meeting new people and helping to foster their creative process.

Emily Looman is an artist and author of Cartwheel in the Quiet: a Tapestry of Things Found + Felt. She gathers her writing and found poetry, Polaroids, and hand-drawn imagery into her journals and onto the walls of her tiny art studio, creating patchworked spaces in which sensitivity is welcome and humanness can be explored. You can find her on Instagram (@quietnoticing) and take a peek at her book with the link below.