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Pamela Trow-Johnson
Looking for new ideas, artist Pamela Trow-Johnson got interested in children's pop-up books. Now she creates fanciful shadowboxes with dimensional designs in paper, bangles, and other bits and pieces, garnished with the poetry she writes as well.
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Performer Noah Mickens
Noah Mickens plays on metal kegs in the avant garde music ensemble Nequaquam Vacuum. He also curates and participates in a variety of underground performance happenings, including a show by Japanese Butoh-inspired dancers.
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Hiphop at Northwest Academy
Kids appreciate the arts just like their parents, though usually not the same art. At the prompting of students, Portland's Northwest Academy is teaching innovative after-school classes on the culture, language, music and dance of hiphop. They also recruited local rapper Mic Crenshaw to teach a class.
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