Rose Bond

Rose Bond is a Canadian-born media artist, animator and professor who currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Bond's animations and short films have been shown at film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival. Bond is also known for her architectural animation installations. She shown work at Exeter Castle in 2010 and created a prototype animation for the Smithsonian.

Biography Bond was born in Canada and raised in Oregon. She reports that she had been drawing and recognized for her art since she was in kindergarten.

Currently, Bond teaches at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon, where she is an associate professor and a lead faculty in Animated Arts.

Work Bond started out using traditional methods of creating animation with flipbooks and inking by hand. Later she began to experiment with using computers. Her current work is mainly public art featuring site-specific animations which use a combination of hand-drawn and digital art.

Bond's earlier films deal with feminist issues, questioning whether one gender should rule over another through the medium of animated Irish legends. Her hand-drawn and hand-painted images for these films were considered dramatic by reviewer, Wendy Jackson, who also felt that Bond's choice of heroines showed a "feminist sensibility."

Bond's first animation installation was staged in 2002 in Portland, using the historic Seamen's Bethel Building. Her installation work "challenges people to think about how they perceive time, space, and memory." When beginning a new animation projection, Bond researches the history of the building and incorporates it into the projection. She visits each spot where she will be creating an installation, exploring the buildings and gleaning interesting historical facts to use in her animations. In Broadsided!, her animation commissioned by the Exeter Arts Council for Exeter Castle, Bond discovered the story of a man who was hung for stealing sheep which she uses in her animated story. Bond is excited about the potential for animation to change the "cultural landscape." The film premiered at the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Films Electroflux (2008) Ward of Court: Country of Origin (2007) Memoria Mortalis (2000) Rain Tiles (1997) Deirdre's Choice (1995) Remote Control (1992) Mallacht Macha / Macha's Curse (1990) Cerridwen's Gift (1987) Nexus (1984) Gaia's Dream (1982)

Installations Intra Muros (Zagreb) (2013) Intra Muros (Toronto) (2011) Broadsided! (2010) Mu-ta-tion (Electrogals) (2010) Intra Muros (Utrecht) (2008) Intra Muros (Portland) (2007) Gates of Light (New York) (2007) Illumination #1 (Portland) (2002)

Awards Caldera-Ford Family Residency Stipend (2012). Princess Grace Special Project Award (2011). Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award (2008). Chicago Children's Film Festival, First Place, Macha's Curse (1991). Graduate Film Scholarship from the Princess Grace Foundation (1989).

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