Heather Hilliard-Bonds
Heather Hilliard-Bonds is a local artist in the Altadena and Pasadena area. She has been an artist since she first picked up a crayon. Heather currently teaches art at various facilities in conjunction with the Armory Center for the Arts. She has also work for the city of Pasadena and the Pasadena School district.
Heather was born in Fullerton California, but raised by her mother Nancy Hilliard in Pasadena California and has lived here most of her life. She has always had a love for children and began her career in childcare. From this experience and an internship with the Armory Center for the Arts she realized she could combine her enjoyment of working with children with her other passion in life which is art. This directed her down the path of becoming an Art Instructor for many children in Altadena and Pasadena.
Heather attended college at Texas Southern University and later returned to Pasadena attending Pasadena City College and Cal State of Los Angeles. She has a degree in Art Education. She works with all ages, from preschoolers to the elderly and enjoys it all. She has also worked many for many years with children with special needs and with senior citizens in assisted living programs who also were diagnosed with special needs.
She has participated in several art shows such as Family, Friends and Black History month at Loma Alta Park in Altadena, Armory Center of the Arts and Art Walk in Los Angeles at Urban Life Cleaners and Gallery as well as Art Night in Pasadena at Jackie Robinson Center, just to name a few. She has several murals painted around the community. Norma Coombs Alternative school displays a school lion on the play ground as well as an angel created in the middle of Praise Tabernacle Church. She also has collaborative mural pieces displayed at many local Parks, Victory Park, Villa Park, Jackie Robinson Park and Escalon Head Start preschool in Altadena all created under her direction.
Heather is a proud mother of four and a grandmother. She says she can see the influences of her love in art trickling down to her children and loves it. She hopes to bring smiles to the children she works with and a greater appreciation of art to the next generation.
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