Maybe you stopped adding degrees after your name long ago. Or maybe the ink is still fresh on your diploma. No matter when you were last in school-school, there’s no better time than a calendar flip to do a little self-reinvention through education. Fiction writing? Sushi making? Kalapuya basket weaving? A seminar on Simone de Beauvoir? Whatever your jam, Portland is the perfect place for the perennial student. Here, we round up some of the city’s best, weirdest, and most enlightening educational opportunities.
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Basket Weaving to Spoon Carving, WildCraft Offers Arts & Crafts for Grown-Ups
It’s like summer camp forever.
5 Places in Portland to Get Your DIY On
Screen-printing to shoe cobbling, soapmaking to soldering, here are the city’s best places to make something with your hands.
Reed College’s Only Graduate Program Puts Intellectual Exploration above Practical Payoff
Or, how to become a Reedie past age 22.
How a Class Designed for Low-Income Portlanders Changed One Mind—and Life
Mary Thompson grew up in the foster system and didn’t graduate from high school. Now she’s on a course to a writing career.
7 Places in Portland to Exercise Your Brain
From literary seminars to an underground grad school, here are the city’s best places to stretch your mind.
6 Places in Portland to Up Your Kitchen IQ
Knife sharpening to cocktail making to pig butchery, here are the city’s best spots to build your kitchen skills.
A Beginner’s Guide to Portland Community College
Ninety thousand students. Four main campuses. PCC can be tough to navigate, but here are three tips for taking the leap back to school.
6 Places in Portland to Embrace Your Inner Artist
Darkroom photography to improv comedy, here are the city’s best spots to get artsy.
Yes, You Can Study That: 29 Portland Classes You Didn’t Know Existed
Tuvan throat singing to hula dance to beekeeping, it’s time to get enlightened.
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