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December 22, 2010
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Bobby Fouther volunteers to teach kids dance and arts at King Elementary School.
Community Artist Gives Back
Volunteer
builds sense of
worth in others
The Steve Lowenstein Trust
Board has selected community
artist Bobby Fouther for its an­
nual cash award to a person who
has made a significant personal
contribution to assisting the
underserved.
First awarded in 1992, the
Lowenstein honor was presented
to Fouther on Dec. 8 at Portland
City Council.
Fouther, a dancer, designer,
visual artist, and educator, has
committed much of his life to
using the power of the arts to
inspire an appreciation of beauty,
and a sense of self worth, in
others.
It is safe to say, over the 40
plus years of his life as a teach­
ing and performing artist, thou­
sands of children and families
have been the greatest benefi­
ciaries of his efforts.
“Mr. Bobby,” as some chil­
dren like to call him, can take
well-earned pride in teaching the
arts as both inherently worth-
while, and as a tool for connect­
ing young people, and their par­
ents, to history, business, geog­
raphy and myriad cultures of the
planet. He strives to impart to
them their potential and very
real ability to constructively and
beautifully shape their futures
and world around them.
A second generation Orego­
nian, Fouther recently put sig­
nificant time and energy into stok­
ing a community fire for building
an exemplary arts curriculum at
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. El­
ementary School in northeast
Portland. He received the 2009
Spirit o f Portland Award for his
unceasing dedication and cre­
ativity in making good things
happen even w ith scant re ­
sources. He is truly a life-long
community and arts activist.
Fouther has been often heard
to say everything he does is sim­
ply about “Helping to nurture the
children of the community and
families who nurtured and sup­
ported me as young artist.”
The Lowenstein Trust is part
o f the le g a c y o f S tev e
Lowenstein, an inspiring model
of public service who served in
the Peace Corps after law school
in the early 1960s. Throughout
his life he was a vocal civil rights
activist; the founding director of
Oregon Legal Services; author
of a groundbreaking history -
The Jews of Oregon 1850-1950;
and at the time of his death in
1990, served as Chief of Staff to
former City Commissioner Mike
Lindberg.
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