Rob Matson is a musician, writer, artist and barn/contra dance organizer. A Brooklynite (New York) for 31 years until the pandemic, he has started two contra dance series in Arkansas: one 2x/month in a college and one 1x/month in the community. His professional background includes arts administration and management for New York City dance companies and arts organizations, corporate marketing and advertising, and music performance with, currently, a schedule of seven recurring shows/month. For contra, he performs as Bobby Fjsh and the Magic River, a high-energy and groove-centric fusion of electro and trad.

Public exhibitions and publications include but are not limited to:

(a) Over 100 print-publications including books, articles, photographs plus numerous websites
Examples: Xerox Engineering Systems Dealer Marketing Program (book); Reuters’ North American Power User Guide (book); Coherent Communications/Lucent Technologies’ Encyclopedia Consortium sales manual and teacher’s guide plus two-day sales seminar and training course (two books/two-volumes); Career Blazers’ Introduction to the Internet (book and course); and articles for the newsletters of the Graphic Artists Guild, Lucent Technologies and others.

(b) Two pieces in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 11+ solo art shows, and one photo in the New York Times. Exhibitions have been in: The Duke Theatre, NYC; Dance Space Center, NYC; New York Public Library; Tillies of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; and the Arnold Innovation Center, Conway, AR.