Nedra Bonds

**Nedra "NedRa" Bonds** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1948) 'yar Amurka ce mai gyaran gashi, mai fafutuka, kuma malamar da ta yi ritaya, an haife ta kuma ta girma a unguwar tarihi ta Quindaro da ke Kansas City, Kansas . Bonds tana ƙirƙirar barguna da tsana mai gauraye ta amfani da yadi, beads, da alamomi don bincika batutuwan da suka shafi haƙƙin ɗan adam, launin fata, mata, siyasa, da muhalli . An fi saninta da *Quindaro Quilt*, bargo mai tsawon , wanda ke bayyana muhimman tarihin unguwar Quindaro da rawar da take takawa a matsayin wani ɓangare na Tsarin Layin Dogon Ƙasa na Ƙasa na Hanyoyin Tarihi.  A matsayinta na mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin al'umma da kuma mai ilimi, Bonds tana fafutukar kare doka, tana koyar da bita a cikin gida da kuma ƙasashen duniya, kuma ta halarci Taron Koli na Duniya kan Muhalli da Ci Gaban Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a matsayin wakili a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a shekara ta 1992.  Bonds mai fasaha ce kuma malamar da ta yi ritaya a Kansas City, Kansas. Ayyukanta na baya-bayan nan sun haɗa da barguna *na Common Threads*,  da Kansas City Chiefs ta ba da umarnin a yi don Arrowhead Arts Collection,  da *Wak'ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Women Mural* , wanda Shirin Tallafin Rocket na Gidauniyar Charlotte Street ya ɗauki nauyinsa,  a Lawrence, Kansas, da kuma aikinta na cutar kansa na baya-bayan nan.  Gwamnan Kansas Joan Finney ya naɗa Bonds a Hukumar Fasaha ta Kansas a shekarar 1992. 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Bonds a unguwar tarihi ta Quindaro da ke Kansas City, Kansas, ga dangin masu gyaran gashi. Mahaifiyarta, Georgia Elizabeth Patton (née Goff), da kakarta ta uba, Juanita Patton, duk masu gyaran gashi ne.  Mahaifinta, William Patton, ya yi aiki a matsayin kyaftin na 'yan sanda.  An koya wa Bonds dinki a lokacin da take da shekaru shida, yana cewa "Don haka na koyi dinki 10 a kan haɗin gwiwa na farko da ke hannuna, kuma idan ban yi 10 ba to dole ne in fitar da su in sake yin su."  Ta ci gaba da ba wa jikokinta biyu waɗannan ƙwarewar. Bonds ta shiga makaranta a 1954, shekarar Brown da Hukumar Ilimi, tana tunawa da cewa "Na yi shekaru uku na farko a makarantu daban-daban. Sannan aka haɗa ni da makarantar da duk malamai fararen fata ne, kuma batun ba shi da alaƙa da ni." Bonds ba ta fahimci ba sai daga baya a rayuwata cewa shiga makaranta a tsakiyar Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Bil'adama ta taimaka mata wajen tsara ta a matsayin mai fasaha da mai fafutuka. 

Bonds ta sami digirinta na farko a fannin fasaha a Jami'ar Kansas a fannin Nazarin Amurka da kuma digirinta na biyu a fannin Kimiyya a Jami'ar Jihar Kansas a fannin Ilimi a Birane . 

A lokacin da nake ƙarami, Bonds ya daina yin bargo don neman ƙarin matsayin masu fafutuka ta hanyar shiga cikin al'umma; "Da zarar na iya, na daina yin bargo don tayar da hankali ta kowace hanya da ta kasance mai ma'ana a gare ni a lokacin. Rubuta wasiƙu, zama a gida, kai ma ka ambaci hakan. Shekarun 1960 ne da kuma ƙungiyar kare haƙƙin jama'a." 

## Sana'a

### ''Quindaro Quilt'' da ''Idan Da Dirt Zai Iya Magana''
An yi wa takardun kuɗi kwarin gwiwa don sake fara aikin dinki a shekarar 1989, don nuna rashin amincewa da wata matsala ta doka a garin Quindaro . An gabatar da dokar da za ta ba Browning Ferris Industries damar gina wurin zubar da shara a saman wurin makabartar Quindaro ta Tsohon. Bonds sun yi mata *Quindaro Quilt* don nuna rashin amincewa, don jaddada tarihin Quindaro mai rikitarwa da mahimmanci a matsayin tasha a kan Tsarin Layin Dogon Jirgin Ƙasa na Ƙasa na Hanyoyin Tarihi.  Bonds sun halarci tarurrukan majalisar birni kusan duk bayan makonni biyu na tsawon shekaru takwas. A waɗannan tarurrukan, za ta fitar da bargonta kuma na tsawon mintuna biyar da aka ba ta ta yi amfani da shi a matsayin abin tarihi don nuna irin "...cin zarafi ne a jefar da duk wannan da sunan wurin zubar da shara".  A wannan lokacin ne Bonds ta haɗu da abokin aikinta kuma abokinta na gaba, Nancy Dawson.

*If Da Dirt Could Talk* haɗin gwiwa ne tsakanin marubucin wasan kwaikwayo, farfesa, kuma mai wasan kwaikwayo Nancy Dawson da mai gyaran gashi da mai fafutuka NedRa Bonds. Tare da tallafin Rocket Grant na Charlotte Street Foundation, Bonds da Dawson sun ƙirƙiri jerin ayyukan da suka shafi zamantakewa waɗanda suka tattauna tarihin Old Quindaro da aka yi watsi da su.  Wahayi kai tsaye ga Dawson ya fito ne daga labaran kakarta, Elizabeth Thompson, wacce ta tsere wa bauta ga Old Quindaro kuma daga ƙarshe aka binne ta a makabartar Old Quindaro.  A matsayin wani ɓangare na wannan aikin, Bonds ta yi tafiya zuwa makarantun gwamnati a yankin Kansas City, tana jagorantar bita kan jaruman al'umma da tarihin gida. Ta koyar da yara game da jaruman gida, kamar mawaƙiya kuma mai wasan kwaikwayo Janelle Monae da aka haifa a Quindaro, kuma ta buga zane-zanen jaruman yara a kan zane, wanda daga nan ta haɗa su cikin *Jaruman Jarumai* . Bonds da Dawson sun ƙirƙiri barguna don wannan aikin, waɗanda aka haɗa su a cikin shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo na Dawson na asali, *Stories From da Dirt*, wanda aka gudanar a Makabartar Old Quindaro. Ta hanyar yin bargo da wasan kwaikwayo, Bonds da Dawson sun yi ƙoƙarin wayar da kan al'ummominsu game da jaruman yau da kullun da kuma tarihin da ke tattare da wuraren da mutane ke zaune.

A bikin bayar da kyautar Rocket na 2016 a La Esquina,  Bonds sun yi tunani kan *"Idan Da Dirt Zai Iya Magana / Aikin Jarumi Mai Zane* ", suna gabatar da mai zane, mai shiryawa, da kuma mai fafutuka Michael Toombs a matsayin "misali mai rai" na gwarzo na yau da kullun. 

### Adalci na zamantakewa da shigar al'umma
A shekarar 2010, Bonds ta sami kyautar Inspiration Council of Metropolitan Kansas City,  wadda ta yi amfani da ita wajen ƙirƙirar bargo don murnar cika shekaru 40 da kafa Cibiyar Mata ta UMKC, a matsayin wani ɓangare na baje kolin *Her Art: Who Does She thought She is*, wanda ya fara daga 1 ga Afrilu zuwa 13 ga Mayu, 2011. *Rigar Mata ta Equity*,  wani aiki na haɗin gwiwa inda Kansas City da membobin al'ummar UMKC kowannensu suka yi murabba'i ɗaya don babban bargo, an amince da ita a duk faɗin ƙasar ta Jami'ar Nebraska-Lincoln da Jami'ar Michigan a matsayin "ƙoƙarin al'umma mai kyau wajen magance adalci na zamantakewa". 

Bonds ta koyar da bita a gida ga yaran makaranta a birnin Kansas da kuma na ƙasashen duniya ga mata a Nairobi, Kenya ta hanyar Shirin Magance Matsalolin Al'umma na 1994,  Arusha, Tanzania, da Port-au-Prince, Haiti . A shekarar 2008, ta halarci taron Ƙungiyar Nazarin Amurka a Istanbul, Turkiyya . Kwanan nan aka gayyaci Bonds don shiga wani musayar kuɗi a Cuba, tare da sauran masu fasaha a fannin yadi. 

Bonds ta bayyana niyyarta ta yin zane a matsayin ƙirƙirar "ƙananan canje-canje a fahimta"  waɗanda ke haifar da canjin zamantakewa. Ta yi amfani da canje-canjen da take yi a kan masana'anta don kwatanta matsalolin zamantakewa na yanzu, da kuma taimaka wa masu kallo su yi tunani game da su ta hanyoyi sababbi da mahimmanci. Ta kwatanta ƙananan canje-canje a cikin aikinta da ƙaramin canjin yin amfani da "R" a cikin NedRa—"Ina rubuta sunana da babban 'R' don ART… Don haka, kamar yadda canza 'R' a cikin sunana ke haifar da sabon hali gaba ɗaya, ƙananan canje-canje a fahimta, zai iya canza al'umma." 

A yayin da take tattaunawa kan bargon da ta yi a matsayin martani ga harbin Michael Brown a Ferguson, Missouri, mai taken Fist and The Finger, Bonds ta yi tsokaci kan yadda ta yi amfani da bargon a matsayin wani dandamali mai laushi na zamantakewa: "Wannan hanya ce ta haifar da tashin hankali ba tare da tsoratar da kowa ba. Bayan haka, yadi ne kawai. Lokacin da muka shigo wannan duniyar, suna naɗe mu da zane. Idan muka bar duniya, suna naɗe mu da zane. Yadi ne kawai!" Don wannan bargon, Bonds ta haɗa da hannaye baƙi, fari, da launin ruwan kasa, waɗanda yawancinsu ana ɗaga su sama da nufin " Hannu sama, kada ku harba ", rubutun da ke bayan bargon da taken da aka ƙirƙira a kusa da kalmomi da ayyukan ƙarshe na Michael Brown. Ƙananan jaruman masu ra'ayin ra'ayi suna kewaye da dunkulewar tsakiya, suna nuna kai tsaye ga mai kallo. Masu ra'ayin ra'ayi suna wakiltar yara a makaranta, suna yi wa ƙungiya murna kuma suna ɗaga hannayensu a aji; "Ya kamata yara su ɗaga hannuwansu sama kawai don yin tambayoyi a aji ko bayar da ra'ayi. Kuma ya kamata su yi amfani da dunkulewarsu don yi wa ƙungiyarsu murna, ba faɗa a kan tituna ba."

Bonds ta daɗe tana koyarwa a makarantu daban-daban a birnin Kansas, amma ta yi ritaya don ta sadaukar da kanta ga aikinta na fasaha. Har yanzu tana cikin al'ummarta, tana aiki a kan ayyukan zane-zane na haɗin gwiwa kamar *Wak'ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Mural na Mata* da kuma sigar ta biyu ta zane-zane na Dave Lowenstein na *Pollinators*,  duka a Lawrence, Kansas. An haɗa da misalin Bonds a cikin zane mai taken *Kansas Women Work for Justice* a Topeka, Kansas . 

### Sauran ayyuka
Bonds yana ɗaukar alama daga al'amuran siyasa da zamantakewa na zamani kuma yana yanke shi, yana manna shi, sannan ya sake dinka shi da yadi da beads. Ta ce, "Wani lokaci ina aiki kai tsaye kuma ina ƙirƙirar bargo cikin 'yan kwanaki. A wani ɓangaren kuma, ina da wanda ya ɗauki shekaru biyu. Na ƙirƙiri waɗannan ƙananan abin rufe fuska masu beads waɗanda suka kai murabba'in inci ɗaya, kuma bayan na ƙirƙiri kusan 40 daga cikinsu na yanke shawarar haɗa su duka a fuska." Wannan bargo ana kiransa *A Kiss from the Ancestors* - ya haɗa da kyawawan sifofi na fuskokin dangi da yaro, tare da alamomin kiɗa daban-daban, kamar ganguna, kayan kida na tagulla, da kuma treble clef, waɗanda ke nuni ga muhimmiyar rawar da Kansas City ta taka a tarihin Jazz .  An haɗa wannan bargo a cikin baje kolin da aka yi kwanan nan a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Spencer da ke Lawrence, Kansas, *And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversations*, kuma gidan kayan tarihi ya saya shi. 

Yayin da take shan maganin cutar kansar mama, Bonds ta kasance tana ƙirƙirar jerin ayyuka game da gwagwarmayarta da cutar kansa. Tana fatan a haɗa waɗannan ayyukan a wani baje koli a asibiti, don tallafawa waɗanda ke shan magani da kuma fara tattaunawa.  Jerin farko na shirinta, *The Hands that Heal*, hannaye ne masu sarkakiya waɗanda aka yi wa ado da duwatsu masu kauri, suna wakiltar kuma suna gane hannun kowane mutum da ya taɓa ta yayin jinyarta, musamman waɗanda galibi ake watsi da su - mataimakan ma'aikatan jinya, masu karɓar baƙi, ɗalibai, da mutanen da suka taimaka mata ta ajiye motarta. Aikinta na biyu mai taken *The Day I Became a Barcode* . Bonds ta kasance tana adana munduwa na wuyan hannunta na asibiti kuma tana shirin ƙirƙirar aiki mai girma uku daga gare su. Tana son mutanen da ke fama da cutar kansa su san cewa "kuna da iko akan jikinku — ya shafi yadda kuke amsawa da shi ne." 

Wani kalami da Bonds ta yi kwanan nan ya taƙaita ayyukanta na dinki da fafutuka; "Ina da shekaru 68 amma har yanzu ina ajiye takardu marasa komai da alkalami a bayan motata idan na buƙaci tsayawa na yi wa wani. Ina da injin dinki a ciki ma, domin na ga ba ka san lokacin da wani yanayi zai iya tasowa ba. Ina kiran wannan 'ka kasance a shirye'."

### Nunin kai kaɗai

* Cibiyar Fasaha ta 2011, Kansas City MO
* 2011 Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City MO
* Otal ɗin 2011 Gidan Tarihi na Metropolitan, Paducah KY
* *Ana Nuna Yanzu a* 2012, Kansas City MO
* 2012 *Stitches*, Miller Nichols Library, Kansas City MO
* Jami'ar Missouri ta 2014, Columbia MO 

### Nunin rukuni

* *Bikin 2003 da Bincike* Gidan Tarihi na Epsten na Gidan Tarihi na Yahudawa na Kansas City a Village Shalom, Kansas City KS 
* Gidan Tarihi na New England Quilt na 2011, Lowell MA
* *Mata Masu Al'ajabi na 2011: SHEROES, 'Yan Fafatawa da 'Yanci, & Mata Masu Kick Butt!* a matsayin wani ɓangare na *HerArt*, Kansas City MO 
* 2011 *Hasken da ke Ɗakin Ɗaya: Hasken Farko*, Canjin Hotuna, Gidan Tarihi na Jazz na Amurka, Kansas City MO
* *Abokai* na 2012, Cocin Kirista na Ƙasar, Kansas City MO
* 2012 *Ella: Uwargidan Waƙa ta 1*, Gidan Tarihi na Jazz na Amurka, Kansas City MO 
* *Matan 2012 da Za Su Kallo: Mayar da Hankali Kan Zare da Yadi*, UMKC HerArt Project, Kansas City MO 
* Cibiyar Al'adu ta Bruce Watkins ta 2013, Kansas City MO
* 2013 *Yadi Masu Karyewa*, Overland Park KS 
* *Abota Mai Rufi ta 2013: Fasahar NedRa Bonds da Nancy Dawson*, Laburare na Miller Nichols, UMKC Volker Campus, Kansas City MO 
* Aikin Fasaha nata na 2014: *MATA MASU BAN MAMAKI: SHEROES, 'Yancin Fada, & Mata Masu Kick Butt!,* Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center, Kansas City MO 
* 2014 Brown V Board of Education Cika Shekaru 60 da Kafuwa, Mulvane Arts Center, Topeka KS
* 2018 *Kuma Har Yanzu Muna Tashi: Kabila, Al'adu, da Tattaunawar Gani*, Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Spencer, Lawrence KS 
* *Zane-zane na 2018: Mutane, Wurare da Abubuwa*, KC Black Arts Network a Taskar Bayanan Baƙi na Mid-America, Kansas City MO 

### Tarin abubuwa
Ayyukanta suna cikin Gidan Tarihi na Jazz na Amurka, Gidan Tarihi na Spencer,  Sprint, H&amp;amp;R Block, Cibiyar Mata ta Saint Luke, da Tarin Fasaha na Arrowhead. 

Bonds yana da fayil ɗin mai zane a cikin Laburaren Bayani na Spencer Art ta hanyar Shirin Fayil ɗin Masu Fasaha a Gidan Tarihi na Nelson-Atkins . 

### Kwamitoci da bita

* Zane mai laushi na 2011, Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa na Kayan Wasan Yara da Ƙananan Gidaje, Kansas City MO
* 2012 Art Smart Series, Makarantar Firamare ta Briarwood, Overland Park KS
* Sansanin Kayan Aski na 2011 UMKC, Kansas City MO 
* 2013 'Yar tsana a matsayin Fasaha, Gidan Tarihi na Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City MO
* *Zaren Haɗawa* na 2013, Ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City MO
* Jerin bita na 2013 Landon Center on Aging/ KU Med, Kansas City KS
* Jawabin Bikin Juneteenth na 2017, Gidan Tarihi na Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City MO 

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