Tobias Fifield

Lives and works in Honolulu, HI, USA

Artist statement

Tobias was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and grown up in Los Angeles. His family immigrated from Norway, Scotland, Italy and Ireland in the late 1800's to New York and settled in San Francisco. He was later adopted and completed High school under foster care and was granted a scholarship to study Foundry Arts; Drawing, Painting & Sculpture at The California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California. Toby gained his inspiration from his grandfather Patrick Raymond Fifield who worked as Master Commercial Artist in Gold Leaf & Screen-printing signage design in Woodside, California who also was a cartoon illustrator with in the 50's. Toby is a Master Teacher in Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture with Twenty Years of teaching experience. His accomplishments working with the industry prior to his teaching in academics helped him gain Mastery Skills as an engineer in rapid prototyping in NIKE labs to being a Paper Sculptor on NASA projects. He has been teaching the Arts introducing mastery skills in K-12 to college students introducing kids and young adults techniques and skills that are not taught in school with emphasis on developing a skill-set to build a portfolio that expresses the foundations of visual elements an principles of Art. Toby also holds a Masters in Education from the University of California Santa Cruz, obtained in South Korea during a teaching residency at the National University of Art Education, where he taught twenty different Art...

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