Who We Are
Rewild Portland is a non-profit organization serving Portland, Oregon and the surrounding wild and rural communities. Our mission is to foster resilience through place-based arts, traditions, and technologies. This mission comes to life in the form of community-building, ecological restoration, and education. Please help us with our mission and donate today.
The Color Wheel
Conjuring color from the land through the wheel of the year. A 9-month (March–November) fiber arts immersion program, 2 days per month, 10 am–4 pm. Class size is limited to 16 participants. TUITION: $3,495 (Materials Included, read our Refund Policy here) Color moves us. Color moves the world. Humans are innately creative, driven to make …
Learn MoreThe Weaver’s Wheel
An exploration of land based fiber arts through the wheel of the year. A 9-month (April–December) fiber arts immersion program, 2 days per month, 10 am–4 pm. TUITION: $3,495 (Materials Included, read our Refund Policy here) All wealth comes from the earth and from the hands of those who know how to transform the earth’s …
Learn MoreRewilding 101
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Often attributed to Albert Einstein without a clear source This class is about furthering cultural rewilding; a quest to find the human place in the ecologies where we dwell. While rewilding has been used to mean many things …
Learn MoreResilient Skills Series
The Resilient Skills Series is a once a month opportunity to explore different skills through a rewilding lens. It is intentionally accessible with no to low-cost options, and no previous experience is necessary to attend.
Our Resilient Skills Series has one core ethic behind it:
All people must have access to creating resilience in their lives.
Contemporary life finds us completely dependent on a very fragile network of global connections and technologies. We have become disassociated from the land where we live: our food comes from hundreds and thousands of miles away, we spend countless hours indoors, interacting with screens in human-created virtual worlds instead of the natural other-than-human reality that surrounds us. This has many negative effects on our physical and mental health, as well as making us less prepared for the inevitable failure of these systems. Yet access to learning any other way often comes with a high price.