Vanitas Oil Painting Workshop

February 28-March 1, 2026

Join Saint Gregory’s Hall artist-in-residence Sarah Crow for a two-day Vanitas oil painting workshop.

Vanitas, (“vanity” in Latin), is a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the 17th-century and portrays objects symbolic of death and the vanity of earthly goods; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent. 

Enter into the spirituality of Lent through this two-day, traditional oil painting workshop. Participating artists will paint a skull and other objects from observation and be guided through the process of indirect oil painting.

Enrollment is limited to just six students! Students must have some drawing and painting experience to register. Ages 14 and up are welcome.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS WORKSHOP. Please consider joining for our Chaste Heart of St. Joseph workshop on March 14.
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Sarah Crow is a sacred artist who has mastered Baroque oil painting techniques (see her reproduction of Caravaggio’s Calling of Saint Matthew here). She is a former lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently the artist in residence at St. Gregory’s Hall where she maintains an active studio of both sacred art commissions and representational paintings. You can learn more about her work here.