Rose Bond

Rose Bond
Education Portland State University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known for Animation and Installation
Website http://rosebond.com/

Rose Bond is a Canadian-born media artist, animator and professor[1] who currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.[2] She has been considered a scholar on the subject of animation and an experienced animator herself.[3] Bond's animations and short films have been shown at film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival.[4] Bond is also known for her architectural animation installations.[5] She shown work at Exeter Castle in 2010 and created a prototype animation for the Smithsonian.[6] Bond's hand-painted films are held in the film collection at the Museum of Modern Art.[7]

Biography

Bond was born in Canada and raised in Oregon.[8] She reports that she had been drawing and recognized for her art since she was in kindergarten.[1] Bond graduated from Portland State University (PSU) with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and later with a masters in education in 1976.[7] Bond struggled with making her creative visions a reality while she was in college, and believed that teaching art was the only way she could make a living.[1] Later, she received a masters of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied experimental film-making.[7]

On September 18, 2001, Bond created and registered a business for her animations in Oregon under the name Rose Bond Moving Pictures.[9]

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.[6]

Work

Bond started out using traditional methods of creating animation with flipbooks and inking by hand.[1][10] Later she began to experiment with using computers.[1] She uses digital tablets, like those made by Wacom, to teach her students at PNCA.[11] Her current work is mainly public art featuring site-specific animations which use a combination of hand-drawn and digital art.[2]

Bond's earlier films deal with feminist issues, questioning whether one gender should rule over another through the medium of animated Irish legends.[1] In these stories (Deirdre's Choice, Macha's Curse and Cerridwen's Gift), based on figures from Irish legends, Bond painted directly onto clear 35 mm film to create the effect of animation.[12] 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."[13]

Bond's first animation installation was staged in 2002 in Portland, using the historic Seamen's Bethel Building.[14] Her installation work "challenges people to think about how they perceive time, space, and memory."[15][16] When beginning a new animation projection, Bond researches the history of the building and incorporates it into the projection.[17][18] She visits each spot where she will be creating an installation, exploring the buildings and gleaning interesting historical facts to use in her animations.[19] 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.[2]

One of her most shown installations, Intra Muros (2007), was shown at the first Platform Animation Festival in Portland and consists of projected animations in the windows that loop every eight minutes.[3] Intra Muros invites viewers to wonder what is going on in the spaces they cannot see.[3] Bond's installation, Gates of Light, reached reached audiences that were not familiar with experimental film.[16] Bond's projected animations also have the unique capacity to turn the mundane building people see everyday into something special and to challenge with her work, a viewer's "sense of familiarity."[20] Bond is excited about the potential for animation to change the "cultural landscape."[8]

Films

Installations

Awards

Bibliography/discography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Street, Rita (1996). "Rose Bond: An Animator's Profile". Animation World Network. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Pitt, Sarah (5 February 2010). "Sad Tale is Larger Than Life". Western Morning News (Plymouth, UK) – via Lexis Nexis.
  3. 1 2 3 Wells, Paul; Hardstaff, Johnny (2008). Re-Imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image. New York: AVA Publishing SA. ISBN 9782940373697.
  4. ↑ "Memoria Mortalis". Archives/2001 Sundance Film Festival. Sundance Institute. 2001. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Hubert, Andrea (17 February 2010). "Animated Exeter". The Guardian – via Lexis Nexis.
  6. 1 2 Re Defining Animation (PDF). Los Angeles: USC School of Cinematic Arts. 2013. p. 32. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 "Rose Bond: Associate Professor in Animated Arts, Foundation; Lead Faculty in Animated Arts". Pacific Northwest College of Art. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  8. 1 2 Moscato, Marc (26 April 2012). "A Place Called Home: Meet Rose Bond". Know Your City: Portland, Oregon. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Rose Bond Moving Pictures". Perfect Leads. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Behrens, Leigh (28 February 1988). "Festival Offers Film 'Evidence'". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Gallivan, Joseph (31 March 2015). "Wacom Gets Drawn In". Portland Tribune. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  12. ↑ Shearin, John W. (January 1998). "Videofile". Emergency Librarian 25 (3): 53. Retrieved 21 June 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  13. ↑ Jackson, Wendy (1 June 1997). "Video Reviews". Animation World Network. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  14. ↑ Sottile, Leah (12 December 2013). "Public Exposure". Inlander. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  15. ↑ Roberts, Dmae (12 July 2011). "Big Animation with Rose Bond and DripDrop". KBOO. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  16. 1 2 Gerson, Daniela (7 April 2004). "New Residents Get a Glimpse of Neighborhood's Past". The New York Sun – via Lexis Nexis.
  17. ↑ Maga, Carly (26 September 2011). "The Nuit Blanche Curators, In Conversation". Torontoist. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  18. ↑ Kleinman, Howard (19 March 2004). "Windows Into History". The Forward – via Lexis Nexis.
  19. ↑ Streckert, Joe (17 December 2014). "Ruined Refuge". The Portland Mercury. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  20. ↑ Perrott, Lisa (2013). "Zig Zag: Reanimating Len Lye as Improvised Theatrical Performance and Immersive Visual Music". In Richardson, John; Gorbman, Claudia; Vernallis, Carol. The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780199733866.
  21. ↑ "Alumni". Caldera. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 "Rose Bond". Princess Grace Foundation USA. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  23. ↑ "NEA 1999 Fiscal Year Grants". Afterimage 26 (4): 3. January 1999. ISSN 0300-7472. Retrieved 21 June 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  24. ↑ "8th Annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival 1991 Awards" (PDF). Facets Children’s Programs and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. 1991. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  25. ↑ "4th Annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival 1987 Awards" (PDF). Facets Children’s Programs and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. 1987. Retrieved 21 June 2015.

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