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. 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 a sponsored exhibition at the Artisan of Columbia, MO. In addition to her painting and freelance design projects, Callista works in the marketing department of an animal health distributor, where she designs its quarterly magazine circulated to over than 15,000 readers nationwide, maintains the company's multiple websites, social media sites and private labeled products.