Linda Bond has a long Provincetown history beginning with a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1978. Presently she teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art during the school year and in the summer program at FAWC. She is also a mentor for the Low-Residency MFA program that MassArt runs in collaboration with the Fine Arts Work Center. A Boston area artist, Linda holds an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BFA in painting from Bradley University. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Complex Museum, the Fitchburg Art Museum, the Danforth Museum, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the Corcoran Gallery. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the Cambridge School of Weston in 2008. The show and accompanying catalog were an integrated part of the school’s year long curriculum focused on Social Justice. Linda is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities & Public Policy and the Artists’ Resource Trust, among others. Her work is in corporate, institutional and private collections including those of Boston University, Fidelity Investments, IBM and Nokia Corporation.

Linda Bond draws with gunpowder and graphite. Her large to monumental sized images, inspired primarily by photographs from the New York Times and the Boston Globe, are testaments of recent history. Along with images of smoke clouds from smoldering oil fields and bombed cities, she has been rendering human casualties – anonymous, veiled, alive, and lifeless since the 1999 war in Kosovo initiated the first of these pieces. Most recently, Linda has been making portraits of “Peacemakers”. With them she further expands the concept of using the volatile medium of gunpowder to create rather than to destroy.

Excerpted from an interview with Denise Taylor of the Boston Globe, curator Todd Bartel speaks of discovering Linda’s work this way - "I went to her studio and I literally stopped in my tracks when I saw the drawings on the wall. What was so arresting was that regardless of who was in each picture, and regardless of the political point of view of the subject depicted, each was drawn with equanimity. The words that came into my head, no matter where I looked, were 'dignity, compassion, humility’.