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Who I Am & Where I Live

Name: Bobby Fouther
City: Portland, Oregon
Country: United States

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What's Up? The most influential people in my career have included masters and mentors from other cultures along with notables from our nations creative resources. Blending methods of artistic expression from many different cultures and art mediums, my projects are a mix of performance and visual arts workshops that foster a sense of pride in a child's culture as well as an appreciation of the diversity and unifying themes of many cultures.

My vision for our youth is that all children be given the opportunity to experience art at an early age. Having had an extremely full exposure to art as a child gave me the mindset to create and develop artistic alternatives and opportunities for youth in my community. For my students in general I want to provide them with a sense of self and an open-minded view of art as a holistic web that you can weave throughout your life.

I have used this process as a major positive life skill for myself and I hope future students will allow me the opportunity to use the traditional approach of passing it down.

My Life & Work

Bio: Personal:
Bobby Fouther is a second-generation artist and a second generation Oregonian, born on Labor Day and raised in a house full of creativity. Bobby strives to use his gifts on a daily basis to improve his community.

Visual:
After 20 years of live performance work Mr. Fouther has revived his visual art projects as a way of continuing to dance on the page and as a source of fundraising for his creative work with children.

Based at a local school in his community Mister Bobby, as his students fondly call him, teaches through a creative process that allows the student to become successful as well as understand the entrepreneurial aspects of the art world.

Currently Mr. Fouther, a 2009 “Spirit of Portland” award winner has shown artwork in city hall and continually has featured work with “ColoredPencils:Arts & Culture Night” a New Portland project sponsored by the City of Portland’s Office of Human Relations as well as locations and events throughout the metropolitan area.

Performance:
Bobby Fouther's career in the Northwest spans over forty years of artistic expression. Of primary focus is his lifelong goal of bringing communities together through the arts. Having filled the rolls of producer, director, performer, designer, exhibitor and teacher, his work has influenced thousands of students, peers and audiences in communities throughout the United States.

For many years, this former Portland State University faculty member and current instructor for Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Outreach Programs has served as an artist-in-education for statewide artist residency programs sponsored by the Oregon, Washington and Idaho Arts Commissions and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mr. Fouther has also served on curriculum development committees for the Children’s Museum, The World Affair’s Council of Oregon, Portland Public Schools and White Bird Dance.