Bob Doucette

The internet has broken open a pandora’s box of visual imagery that is now available for
all to consume. The artist has a treasure trove of information, from art history to pop
culture that dazzles the mind. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of (nightmares, too) and
Bob Doucette culls together all his favorite imagery together into a cohesive design to tell
his stories.

Doucette spent 25 years in the Animation Industry, working on such award-winning shows as Clifford’s Puppy Days for PBS and Stephen Spielberg Presents: Animaniacs for Warner Bros Animation and created and directed several of his own titles. His independently animated films won him many prestigious awards and honors and his MFA thesis film Pink Triangle is in the permanent collection at the New York Public Library.

Doucette has worn many titles as an artist from set designer to animator and has a wide variety of interest. What started as a career in puppetry segued into a doll-making hobby. His Ben Franklin doll, created for the White House Christmas tree in 1999, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. Many of his dolls are in the private collection of Demi Moore and have been featured in books and magazines articles and sold in galleries.

Currently, Doucette is fulfilling his lifelong ambition to be a gallery painter and is enjoying the opportunity to create something of his own. Born in Waterville, Maine, and educated at Rhode Island School of Design, Bob has a master’s degree in animation from Cal ARTS and at present lives in Peoria, Illinois with his husband, Tom, and his two cats, Mack and Mabel.