About Us

PHAME empowers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to lead full, creative lives through arts education and performance. Offering art classes and workshops in a wide range of disciplines, as well as a robust performance program, PHAME challenges students to learn new skills, take artistic risks, and build lasting relationships with people who share their experience of having a disability.

We’re more than just a school: we’re a creative hub where individuals with disabilities create, grow, and truly belong.

PHAME is Portland’s longest-standing arts organization serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As we launch into our next chapter, your support provides the backbone of our life-changing work. It creates the stability we rely on to keep operations moving forward, and the perseverance we need to innovate again and again.