Occupation: Painter, Sculptor Media: Miscellaneous Media. Born Muskegon, Michigan, April 20, 1952.
Education Study under Victor A S Robinson, 69. San Francisco Art Inst, 70-73. Silvermine Coll Art, 71. Art Institute of Boston, 71. Experimental Etching Studio Boston, 71 & 77. Laguna Beach Coll Art & Design, 72. Eastern Michigan Univ, 72. Arica Inst, Boston, 74-75 & New York, 75. Massachusetts Coll Art, BFA, 77. Wayne State Univ, MFA, 98. Tamalpa Inst, 2005.
Teaching Positions Int Sch Genoa, Italy, 76; Single Mothers' Project, Burlington, 90; The Kid's Art Studio, South Burlington, 90-91; guest lectr, Univ Michigan, 92; Go Like the Wind Sch, Ann Arbor, 93-94; The Women's Art Project, Ann Arbor, 92-94; artist-in-residence, Summer Sch Sch Art Institute of Chicago Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan, 95.
Business and Professional Positions Founding member, exhib & business comts, Vermont Artists Collective, Burlington, 89-90; curator, The Black & White Project, Vermont Women's Caucus for Art, 89-91; founding director, The Kids Art Studio, S Burlington, 90-91; leader, No Limits for Women in the Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 91-92; exhib comt member, Detroit Focus Gallery, 94-95; founder, Michigan Woman's Caucus for Art, 94, president, 94-95, co-pres, 96; director found, Wild Heart Designs LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 98-; creative director, Body Waves, Ferndale, Michigan, 2006-.
Public Works United States West Telecommunications, Denver; Diekmann & Assoc Ltd, Chicago; Sales, Goodloe & Golden, Atlanta; Anchorage Mus Hist & Art; Thomas M Morrisey/KATZ Television, Chicago.
Exhibitions 50th Nat Ann Midyear Painting Exhib, Butler Institute of American Art, 86; A World of Maps, Anchorage Mus Hist & Art, 94-95; Art in Embassies Prog, America Embassy, Kuwait, 95-98; Selections NGO Forum, Elite Gallery, Moscow, 95; NGO Forum, Nat Mus Woman in the Arts, 96; and many others.
Bibliography Marika Christenson (author), Busard-Thompson Show at Margolis Gallery, Arts & Entertainment, Co, 84; Nancy Booth Stringer (author), Roberta Ann Busard: The art of poetic form, Art Light, J Michigan, 12/92; John Carlos Cantu (author), Busard's Paintings, Sculptures Worth Seeing at Arts Council Loft, Ann Arbor News, 3/95.
Publications Contribr, New letters, Vol 59, No 4 (Etching Series, 71 & 77), Univ Missouri Press, Kansas City, 93.
Honors and Awards Jurors' Choice, Mary Mellor Member Fund Award for Painting Mixed Media & Drawing, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, 94; Jurors' Choice Award, Paper Stars Nat Womens Exhib, San Francisco Women Artists, 94; Thomas C Rumble Graduate Fels, Wayne State Univ, 96-98.
Memberships Coll Art Association; Nat Womens Caucus Art; Chicago Artists Coalition; Nat Mus Women Arts; Int Sculpture Inst.
