For a young artist, Callista Bond already works from a palette of wide ranging experience and recognized accomplishment. Her creativity and craft emerge in a myriad of media. Her work has appeared in fine arts exhibitions and can be found, as well, in communications, publishing and industrial backdrops – graphic design, web design, packaging design, advertising and marketing.
As her expertise evolves in the growing field of digital media, however, Callista remains enchanted and focused on her two favorite mediums: acrylic on canvas and watercolor, to which she applies her signature touch – a saturation of color often found in contemporary advertising and graphic design. The confluence of her inspired artistry and her practical design concepts have resulted in what she describes as a “co-occurrence of fine art and digital media that is beautiful and innovative.”
Callista graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Commercial Art and Graphic Design from the University of Central Missouri in 2007. She received both UCM’s Leadership Award and Art Department Achievement Award. Her work has been displayed in several shows including the KCAC Exhibition, the UCM Citation Exhibition and the Sponsored Exhibition at the Artisan of Columbia, MO. Callista has also received the Excellence Award for Art from the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association.
In additional to her painting and freelance design projects, Callista works in the marketing department of Durvet, Inc.; an animal health distributor, where she designs its quarterly magazine circulated to over than 15,000 readers nationwide, maintains the company's multiple websites and private labeled products.
