Barton Bond, director of Clayton State University’s Film and Digital Media Center, will be a panelist at the Fayette FACTOR’s Business Economic Development Day on Thursday, Feb. 19.
Bond will be on the Education & Training Programs panel with Scott Votaw, director of the Georgia Film Institute, at 2:15 p.m.
Business Economic Development Day is part of Fayette FACTOR’s ENCORE program for individuals ages 50 and over. ENCORE, which stands for Retired Leaders Enriching and Nurturing the Community by Offering Resources and Experiences, is an eight week program designed to provide older adults with the opportunity to learn more about their community; the important issues and challenges it faces; identify the primary community needs and determine how they can become involved and make a difference by helping to shape Fayette’s future.
In regards to his participation in both the Fayette FACTOR program and the South Metro Development Conference on Feb. 18, Bond said, “Georgia needs older and younger film workers, that is to say each of these age groups are needed because of their attributes, but in different areas.”
Bond initially came to Georgia and Clayton State University from New Mexico with 45 years of experience working in electronic media – the last 25 of which focused on teaching at community colleges. In 2003 he developed and taught the first film technician training program in the country. His current program at Clayton State’s Film and Digital Media Center is the second as it enters its second year.
Bond began his media career at the tender age of 15 at a little radio station in Taos, N.M., and worked in production and management at public radio and television stations in New Mexico, central California and Idaho. Those stations won several national and regional awards for programming, fund-raising and audience development.
He began his teaching career in 1987 at Santa Fe Community College, where he developed academic programs in electronic media production and digital media. He holds B.A. in Communication from New Mexico State University and also had more than 50 hours of graduate credits in communication and business administration.
He has served on numerous local, state and national media and technology advisory groups and has made presentations at several national conferences.
