Jana L. Bussanich 3505 Masters Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719.460.4588 The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” ― William Faulkner Jana L. Bussanich 3505 Masters Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719.460.4588 The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” ― William Faulkner Jana L. Bussanich 3505 Masters Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719.460.4588 The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” ― William Faulkner | ARTIST CV SUMMARY 2004 - present
Visual Artist and Art Design Consultant Jana L Bussanich offers creative design and management services for private, commercial and public art. Jana has 13 years experience in theatre set design, construction and decoration and produced live theatre from 2009-2012. She has two years experience in urban infill / construction photographic project documentation and has managed the creation of a privately owned large-scale 3D public art piece. Her private art studio is located in Colorado Springs, CO, USA. Her work includes watercolor, oil and charcoal. Jana also teaches watercolor technique and color theory to students of all ages and abilities.
ARTIST TRAINING
Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center Various Business Courses for Small Business Owners 2017 - continuing
The Alvarez School - Chris Alvarez Colorado Springs, CO — 2010-continuing The study of life drawing and the human figure and oil painting
Colorado Springs, CO - 2012 Watercolor Studies
Colorado Springs, CO — 2010
CLIENTS Blue Dot Place, Development, LLC: Photography and Marketing. Interior and Exterior Building Art Concept, Design, and Development 2014 - continuing Bill Burgess, Artist-Sculptor, Photographic Storytelling, Website Development and Content Creations with Support: 2014-2015 Tin Roof Productions, Producer, Set Design, Construction and Decoration. Show Photographer 2009 - continuing Colorado Springs Urban Intervention, Pikes Peak Better Block: Photographic Storytelling 2012
RECENT PROJECTS Project Creative and Design Manager for the Creation of Public Art piece for the exterior of Blue Dot Place. Installed April 2016 Tin Roof Productions Theatre Company Photographer for traveling theatre troupe performing Pride and Prejudice, an original musical, at the International Jane Austen Festival in Bath, U.K., September 2016
HONORS AND AWARDS
Artist Residency, Chateau Orquevaux 18 Grande Rue Orquevaux, France Awarded October 2016, Residency 2017
COMMISSIONS Three Original Watercolor Paintings, Untitled 2016 Commission by private art collector in Pacific Grove, CA. Blue Dot Place, Apartment Building 2016 Photography commission and installation of 30 photography prints shown in private collection. Self-Portrait 2015 Commissioned by a private art collector in Seattle, WA.Homestead 2012 Commissioned by a private art collector in Seattle, WA.The Tower of London 2012 Private art collector in Colorado Springs, CO.Veiled Beauty 2009 Commissioned by the Greater Europe Mission for branding their booth in the Urbana International Trade Show.Poppies 2009, 2014, 2016 Branding of the original musical Pride and Prejudice by Forestgate Community Theater.
EXHIBITIONS The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Gala and First Friday Exhibition, August and September 2017 The Machine Shop, First Friday Exhibition July 2017 Artma 2016, Glitterdome, Denver, CO Art Benefiting the Morgan Adams Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Fund
Pikes Peak Studio Tour 2014 Tour Dates: September 21-22, 2014
Artspeak - Boston, MA 2012 The communication of something about vices and virtues through the idea of a life story.
Book About Death Seattle 2012 The Book About Death was an exhibit in Seattle. The exhibit resulted in a book project. http://janabussanich.com/exhibitions/
GALLERY REPRESENTATIONS Pikes Peak Studio Tour 2014 Tour Dates: September 21-22, 2014 Business of Arts Center, Manitou Springs, CO 2012-2013 Orly’s Art Gallery & Custom Framing: A variety of watercolor and charcoal works.
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