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Use the links below to view art classes offered within a city region. Art forms include a variety of visual arts, theatre, and literary arts. Within each section, click the arrow next to the participant age group you want to view.
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East and Southeast Portland
This city region includes East Portland Community Center, Mt. Scott Community Center, Montavilla Community Center, Rosewood Initiative, and Woodstock Community Center.
Child with Adult (ages 18 months–5 years)
An adult must participate with the child.
| Class | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messy Art | Hands-on experiences with arts and crafts you might not want to try at home. | Montavilla, Woodstock Community Center | Check availability |
North and Northeast Portland
This city region includes Charles Jordan Community Center, Matt Dishman Community Center, Peninsula Park Community Center, and St. Johns Community Center. Montavilla Community Center, on 82nd and Glisan, is included in East and Southeast Portland.
Child with Adult (ages 18 months–5 years)
An adult must participate with the child.
| Class | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messy Art | Hands-on experiences with arts and crafts you might not want to try at home. | Peninsula Park | Check availability |
Senior (ages 60 and older)
| Class | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literary Arts - Writing your Memories | Learn to easily write your thoughts and recollections and preserve them for future generations. Bring a prepared story each week to share with the class. | St. Johns Community Center | Check availability |
Southwest Portland
This city region includes Multnomah Arts Center and Southwest Community Center.
Child with Adult (ages 18 months–17 years)
An adult must participate with the child.
| Class | Ages | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramics - Family Clay | 2–17 | Create shapes from nature or imagination with your family in this one-day handbuilding and sculpting class. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Family Art | 18 months–6 | Embrace creative thinking using paint, clay, glitter, glue, found objects, and more. Construct projects that develop fine motor skills and enhance creative development. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Jewelry/Metalsmithing - Family | 10 and older | Learn to make basic rings and bracelets in this three-hour workshop. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Woodworking - Family Hand Tool Basics | 9–13 | Build together! Gain skills in using hand tools safely and build confidence in construction and tool safety. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
Preschool
Youth (ages 6–15 years)
| Class | Ages | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramics | 4–12 | Invent, discover, and play with clay. Create from fantasies or reality, using handbuilding techniques like coil, pinch, and molding, or explore the potter’s wheel. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Drawing and Painting | 4–12 | Experiment with paint, pastels, ink, and pencil to explore lines, colors, shapes, and compositions. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Fiber Arts | 6–12 | Discover fiber arts through hands-on techniques. Explore felting, embroidery, sewing, and weaving in this fun class. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Jewelry/Metalsmithing | Explore the basics of metalsmithing while working with simple tools and techniques to shape, texture, and assemble metal. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability | |
| Literary Arts | 9–14 | Explore your creativity through writing exercises in a fun and collaborative environment with other young writers. Fiction and poetry classes available. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Mixed Media | 4–12 | Create using the basic elements of art such as line, shape, color, texture, and form to draw, paint, and sculpt 2-D and 3-D compositions. Experience self-expression and creativity while exploring various tools and media. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
Teen (ages 10–20 years)
| Class | Ages | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramics | 12–17 | Develop handbuilding and wheel-throwing skills, using basic techniques like coil, pinch, molding, centering, and throwing. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Jewelry/Metalsmithing | 10–15 | Work from your own design to create a finished art object or wearable piece of jewelry. Emphasis will be on design development and basic metalworking skills. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Studio Theatre | 11–20 | This fully staged theatre production has a part for the shy first-timer and the seasoned young professional. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
Adult (ages 13 and older)
| Class | Ages | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Arts | 13 and older | Explore a variety of classes to learn skills in book binding and essential box-making techniques. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Ceramics | 13 and older | Explore and practice ceramics art techniques. Handbuilding and wheel-throwing classes are available. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Drawing | 13 and older | Gain a strong foundation and explore new techniques. Colored pencil and mixed-media classes available. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Fiber Arts | 13 and older | Create art using natural or synthetic fibers. Classes include spinning, sewing, and weaving. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Jewelry/Metalsmithing | 16 and older | Design jewelry and create other works of art from metals. Classes include techniques such as casting, forging, and raising, as well as enameling and setting stones. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Literary Arts | 16 and older | Classes include memoir, poetry writing, fiction, creative nonfiction, collage, and nature writing. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Mixed Media | 13 and older | Explore creating art using various techniques and materials. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Painting | 13 and older | Acrylics, watercolor, and mixed-media painting classes are available. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Photography | 13 and older | Classes are available for both digital and film camera users. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Printmaking | 13 and older | Printmaking involves transferring images from a plate onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Smartphone Photography | 16 and older | The best camera is the one you always have with you. Your Smartphone. Classes accommodate both Apple and Android users. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Woodturning | 16 and older | Woodturning is the process of shaping a piece of wood using a lathe. This woodworking technique allows artists to craft items such as bowls, lamps, and sculptures. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Woodworking | 18 and older | Build a fun and useful work of art. Gain skills in using hand tools such as saws, hammers, drills safely, while gaining confidence in construction and tool safety. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
Senior (ages 60 and older)
| Class | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramics | Explore ceramics, creating hand-built bowls or sculptures using pinch, coil, and slab forms. Learn fundamentals in a nurturing environment. This class is for beginners. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
| Mixed Media | Rediscover the joy of creating while working with various media in a non-judgmental space. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
Intergenerational (ages 12 and older)
| Class | Ages | Description | Location | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiber Arts | 12 and older | Knitting and tie-dye classes for people of all levels. | Multnomah Arts Center | Check availability |
Galleries at Multnomah Arts Center
The Multnomah Arts Center's Front and Center Galleries showcase artists from Oregon and Southern Washington. Exhibitions feature a wide spectrum of media, diverse subject matter, and unique perspectives. Multnomah Arts Center is located in Southwest Portland. The galleries are free to visit and open Monday through Thursday from 9am to 9:30pm and Friday and Saturday from 9am to 5pm.