Bobby Fouther via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Bobby Fouther
- City: Portland, Oregon
- Country: United States
Current News
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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
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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.
Contact Information
- Email: bobbyfouther@yahoo.com
- Telephone: 503.422.3076
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Address:
Bobby Fouther
P.O. Box 9191
Portland, Oregon 97207
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Art: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/bobby-fouther
- ▶ Twitter: bobbyfouther
- ▶ Instagram: bobbyfouther
- ▶ Website: http://bobbyfouther.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCywEHOq-61OTei4dUGVrkfw
- ▶ Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/arts/design/black-artists-portland.html
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The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
