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Fresco Painter Jack Portland

Jack Portland studied art at the Portland Museum School under such notable artists as Louie Bunce and Mike Russo. His love of drawing and water color led to an interest in fresco painting. Jack studied fresco painting in Rome and now spends half of each year there painting large frescoes. He spends the other half of the year in Portland doing smaller oils and watercolors. Jack's paintings can be seen at the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland.

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TriMet's Poetry in Motion

The Poetry Society of America launched Poetry in Motion in 1992. The first poems appeared in the New York city subway. Now ten million commuters a day in cities all across the country can read poetry while riding mass transit. Portland's TriMet system participates in this program, giving poetry by local writers unrivaled visibility.

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Lifecasting Artist Peny Wallace

If realism is what you are after, we suggest Peny Wallace, whose three dimensional portraits of the human form are so life-like that they simply stop viewers in their tracks. That's because Peny uses human beings as molds for her plaster castings. But there's true art in the way she creates her impressions.

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