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 city's hottest zip code zone, 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, flanked by the country's largest independent bookstore (Powell's), Whole Foods Market, Peet's Coffee, PICA (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art), Utrecht Art Supply and more great destinations, students and faculty of The Art Institute of Portland have a wealth of resources just steps away from the school.

With more than 80,000 square feet of space at 1122 NW Davis Street, The Art Institute of Portland is more than just a note-taking, test-taking institution. Twelve computer labs are abuzz all day long with students working on Macs and PCs, using various software applications such as Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CAD, 3D Studio Max, ProTools and Avid DV Express for class projects. The Art Institute of Portland Gallery, located on the first floor of the building, is home to many exhibits each year and evening receptions during the first Thursday of each month. Students, faculty, staff as well as friends and family members, find a good selection of school, art and media supplies, college logo items and other apparel at the third floor Supply Store. Students check out industry-related media gear from our Equipment Cage and have quality prints of their projects made in our Print Service Center. They access high-end art and design books, DVDs, CDs and magazines in our Library.

In our classrooms, students and faculty share ideas and work together to develop design solutions. In our hallways, friendships and career contacts are made. At our events, new designs emerge and become part of the vibrant creative culture of the city. At The Art Institute of Portland, students build on the community within the school to become active contributors within the community at large.

This is a place where learning meets action. Here, we like our ideas challenged and encouraged, our designs picked apart and improved, our dreams tested and achieved.

This is The Art Institute of Portland. Check us out.