Best art programs in Portland, OR

Make Art PDX Summer Art Camps and Workshops offers sessions where participants work on drawing, painting, sculpture, digital art, and creative technology. Specific activities include stickers and drawing, character drawing and felting, felting, and...

Pre-College Art and Design Programs at PNCA include weekend workshops, summer intensives, and Saturday Art and Design Classes for Teens. Students take part in activities such as drawing, painting, ceramics, mixed media, digital art workshops,...

High Low Art Space Art Classes and Figure Drawing offers art classes, drop-in life drawing, and life drawing sessions. The program also includes gallery shows connected to the space’s activities. • Schedule: Drop-in life drawing and art classes are...

Tucker Arts Camp includes activities in arts, music, movement, organic gardening, and daily PE that features a rock-climbing wall. Children take part in experiences connected to cultures from countries around the world as part of the “Tucker Arts...

Summer Art Camps includes artmaking activities such as ceramics, painting, textiles, crafting, guided crafts, and making art. Camp days also include outdoor and play activities like kick-ball, capture the flag, tag, frisbee, and board games. Some...

Kids & Family Pottery Classes and Camps at Kilnfolk offers activities such as a Family Wheel beginner pottery wheel class, Create & Take with air-dry clay, Toddler Clay Date, monthly and seasonal hand building workshops, and walk-in pottery...

Drip Drop Art Studio offers activities such as Art Play, Storytime Art, Art Club 1, Art Club 2, Homeschool art sessions, Sewing, Tween Night, Kids Night Out, Family Paint Night, and Family Craft Time. Kids and families can take part in sensory play,...

Arts for Learning Northwest In-School Programs offers performances, residencies, and workshops led by individual artists. Performances introduce students to an art form or culture through demonstration, entertainment, education, and audience...

Art4Life Summer Camp offers Art4Life’s 2026 Summer Camp, with registration available for any or all of its SIX weeks of summertime fun. The camp is run by experienced Art4Life staff. Payment for the program can be delivered to any Art4Life program...

Portland Metro Arts School Year Programs offers classes in Pre-Dance, Ballet, Hip Hop, Tap, and Metro Dancers, along with PMA Musical Theatre and Actor’s Workshop. Students can take music classes such as Musical Beginnings, Musical Journeys, and...

Make Do Art Studio offers camps where children spend part of the day cooking and baking and the other part making art. Campers take part in activities such as drawing in sketchbooks, playing art games, reading books together, playing outside at a...

Portland Child Art Studio offers preschool art classes, homeschool art classes, after school art classes, and summer camps. The program uses a developmentally appropriate and child-centered learning approach where teachers do not direct children to...

Portland Preschool of the Arts offers time for kids to make art, eat pizza, eat popcorn, and watch movies. The program also hosts private parties and birthday parties that include decorations and a balloon house. • Ages: 3–11 years old • Schedule:...

iSandbox Factory offers STEaM-based activities for kids that include STEaM-based make and take projects, a craft bar, fun stations, glitter tattoos, painting, felting, and jewelry-making. The program hosts kids’ drop-in activities, workshops and...

One River School Lake Oswego Summer Camps offers weekly studio and digital art camps that include activities such as Watercolor Illustration, iPad Painting, Street Art: Glitch Edition, OC Glass Painting, One Artwork a Day, Kawaii Creations, Glow It...

Gilchrist Art Camp offers a wide range of hands-on projects, including ceramics, collage, several forms of print making, acrylic paintings on fine acrylic paper or canvas, and encaustic painting using hot wax. Campers also work on recycled...

Lakewood Theatre Company Youth Classes offers year-round classes in theatre and visual arts education for children and adults. Classes are available both online and at the Lakewood Center for the Arts, and independent instructors who lease space...

Grace Art Camp offers visual arts, performance arts, storytelling, music, dance, theatre, animation, paper arts and illustration, photography, printmaking, podcasting, and songs and games. Campers also take part in fused glass, ceramics, fibre and...

Various summer (and other) dance camps and classes for 4 and up! Fun, fit, fantastic! Call us at 503.421.7434 and/or email [email protected] for info and help.

Camps include artistic activities, games, time outdoors, and seasonal offerings. Early Childhood and Grades camps available.