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Artist Dana Bussard reflects on 50 years of work at Missoula Art Museum program; upcoming exhibit planned
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Artist Dana Bussard spoke about her career, early exhibitions that helped found a Missoula museum, public commissions, and an upcoming fall photographic project. Laura Millen introduced the program and recalled the museum’s grassroots origins.
Artist Dana Bussard recounted her career, early exhibitions and activism, and several public commissions during a public program introduced by Laura Millen at the Missoula Art Museum.
“From day 1, that's the kind of people we were,” Bussard said of her collaborators during the 1960s and 1970s. The artist described how a grassroots effort that included the Missoula Festival of the Arts led to early purchases that became the museum’s first objects and how a show in an empty Carnegie library helped crystallize the idea of a local museum.
Bussard traced her career from an MFA program in the late 1960s through a period in New York, public-art commissions and a long record of exhibitions. She described early political activism (an artist group she called GASP — “Gals against smog and pollution”) and recalled working with fellow artists Nancy Erickson and…
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