I’d had the idea for kids’ reaction art to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for a few years. When I reconnected with old college pal Mark Brandau, an art teacher at the Arts & Communication Magnet Academy in Beaverton, OR, a suburb of Portland, this portfolio came to life.
This project, he says, piqued his curiosity. “I wasn’t sure how my students would react. Many of them are quite music savvy but thirty-plus years removed from the release of , their experiences with the album and the music of Nirvana are very different my own.”