Jana L. Bussanich Colorado Springs, CO 80907 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 Colorado Springs, CO 80907 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 Colorado Springs, CO 80907 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 Jana L. Bussanich Art offers creative design and management services for private, commercial, and public art. Jana's private art studio is located in downtown 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. Jana teaches from her studio and at Cottonwood Center for the Arts in downtown Colorado Springs. Under her instruction, the program has grown to serve 20-35 students in weekly programming each month. Jana has 16 years of experience in theatre set design, construction, and decoration in live theatre. She travels abroad with a US-based theatre company and with her art students who study with artists from other countries. In 2019, her art travels took her to England, Austria, and New Zealand. Jana also has two years of experience in urban infill/construction photographic project documentation and has managed the creation of two privately owned large-scale 3D art pieces made from aluminum alloy. ARTIST TRAINING
Alice Sheridan Art, London Based Painter, and Art Business Coach 2019-2020 Nicholas Wilton, Art2Life Creative Visionary Program 2019-2020 Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center Various Business Courses for Small Business Owners 2017 - continuing
The Alvarez Gallery and Art School - Chris Alvarez Colorado Springs, CO 2010-continuing The study of life drawing and the human figure and oil painting
Thomas J Owen 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 -2019 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 Tin Roof Productions Theatre Company Photographer and set designer for traveling theatre troupe performing Pride and Prejudice, an original musical, at the International Jane Austen Festival in Bath, U.K., September 2016; Sense and Sensibility, an original musical, at the International Jane Austen Festival in Bath, UK, 2012, and Pride and Prejudice, an original musical performed in New Zealand 2019. Art & Law Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, Watercolor Painting Demonstration 2019 Project Creative and Design Manager for the Creation of Public Art piece for the exterior of Blue Dot Place. Installed April 2016
HONORS AND AWARDS Best Art Class Artist Residency, Château Orquevaux 18 Grande Rue Orquevaux, France Awarded October 2016, Residency 2017
COMMISSIONS Outdoor Tree Sculpture Commission by a private art collector in Colorado Springs, CO 2018 Three Original Watercolor Paintings, Untitled Commission by a private art collector in Pacific Grove, CA. 2016 Blue Dot Place, Apartment Building Photography commission and installation of 30 photography prints shown in private collection. 2016 Self-Portrait Commissioned by a private art collector in Seattle, WA. 2015Homestead Commissioned by a private art collector in Seattle, WA. 2012Veiled Beauty Commissioned by the Greater Europe Mission for branding their booth in the Urbana International Trade Show. 2009Poppies Branding of the original musical Pride and Prejudice by Karen Burnett Hamer, Tin Roof Productions 2009, 20014, 2016, 2019
EXHIBITIONS The Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs Colorado Gratitude Group Show 2019 & 2020; Solitude, Women of the Trees 2019 The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Gala and First Friday Exhibition, August and September 2017 The Machine Shop, First Friday Exhibition Regional Impressions, group show 2017 EXHIBITIONS continued Artma, Glitterdome, Denver, CO Art Benefiting the Morgan Adams Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Fund 2016
Pikes Peak Studio Tour 2014
Artspeak - Boston, MA The communication of something about vices and virtues through the idea of a life story 2012
Book About Death Seattle The Book About Death was an exhibit in Seattle. The exhibit resulted in a book project 2012
GALLERY REPRESENTATIONS Cottonwood Center for the Arts, First Friday Exhibition Colorado Springs, CO 2019 Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO 2019; 2020 Orly’s Art Gallery & Custom Framing: Colorado Springs, CO 2019 The Manitou of Arts Center, Manitou Springs, CO 2012-2013
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