Alex Bond
I was born in Manitou Springs, CO and I am proud to have called Colorado home for most of my 35 years. I’m a family man in love with my 2 dogs and the steady presence of inner and outer beauty that is my wife. I appreciate diversity and I invite diversity in all rooms of my self and the world, especially in art. I typically play with wood, stone, and metal and my style is sporadic, raw, and rebellious. I have a good eye for lines and curves and I’m bad with rulers and levels. I am an art addict with a burled heart and fire in my soul.
“Dragonfly” is the education, design, construction, and installation of a collaborative metal sculpture created by a diverse group of multigenerational Durango creatives. In conjunction with the Durango MakerLab and the City of Durango, award winning and professional metal artist Alex Bond offered an 8 week summer program at the Durango MakerLab focused on welding, forging, and metalsmithing. The experiential and project-based course focused on the completion of a large-scale metal dragonfly sculpture. Design elements constitute a mosaic of industrial scrap metal and pay homage to the dragonfly as an icon of wonder and creativity. In order to empower students to take a leadership role in the initiative, a cohort of diverse participants from the 2022 Lodgers Tax initiative chose the Dragonfly as the theme for the 2023 Lodgers Tax proposal as a symbol of unifying wonder and mystery and for the place-based nature of the piece alongside the Animas River.
