Art Institute of Portland

Not to be confused with Maine College of Art.
The Art Institute of Portland
Art Institute of Portland
Former names
Bassist College
TypeFor profit institution[1][2]
Active1963–2018
Parent institution
Dream Center Education Holdings LLC
Location
Portland
,
Oregon
,
97209
,
United States
Websitewww.artinstitutes.edu/portland

The Art Institute of Portland was a for-profit art school in Portland, Oregon, which briefly operated as a non-profit institution before it closed in 2018. The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by Education Management Corporation. EDMC owned the college from 1998 until 2017, when, facing significant financial problems and declining enrollment, the company sold the Art Institute of Portland, along with 30 other Art Institute schools, to Dream Center Education, a Los Angeles–based Pentecostal organization.[3][4][5] Dream Center permanently closed 18 Art Institute schools, including the Art Institute of Portland, at the end of 2018.[6]

  1. ^ "Dream Center Foundation Info - The Art Institutes". Artinstitutes.edu. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  2. ^ "EDMC completes sale of schools to Dream Center". Post-gazette.com. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  3. ^ Douglas-Gabriel, Danielle (3 March 2017). "Art Institute campuses to be sold to foundation". Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  4. ^ "Inside Higher Ed's News". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  5. ^ Moore, Daniel. "EDMC completes sale of schools to Dream Center". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  6. ^ "Art Institute of Seattle Will Close Friday". The Stranger. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.