This is a place where high design meets the great outdoors. Here, we like our coffee piping hot, our buildings environmentally friendly, our food and beverages first class, and our clothes one of a kind. We live in the best of both worlds - big city/small town - and we respect a myriad of lifestyles, cultures, opinions and interests.

This is Portland, Oregon. Love it. Live it. Learn from it.

The Art Institute of Portland is located in the arts and culture neighborhood known as the Pearl District. Situated in the northwest part of downtown, the Pearl is home to a growing number of highly acclaimed restaurants, coffee shops, renovated lofts, retails stores and galleries. Here, students and faculty of The Art Institute of Portland have a wealth of resources just steps away from the school.