B3 Bussert Gallery
courtesy photos
~ by Cindy Steele
Sharon, Jessica, and Heather in 2012.
B3 Bussert Gallery, offering functional and fine art made in Indiana, is moving from its upstairs location in the Artists Colony Shops to another upstairs spot in Nashville’ s Village Green Building on West Main Street, formerly occupied by Ferrer Gallery. Owners Sharon Bussert, Jessica Bussert, and Heather Bussert Strantz( the three Bs) are excited about continuing the artful tradition of that space. The new location provides more than four times the amount of display space, rooms for studios, and a classroom area for teaching and demonstration.
Heather handles the gallery’ s day-today operations and greets the customers. Sharon promotes the business and oversees the financial recordkeeping. Jessica is a full partner, although she spends time away from Brown County as a traveling emergency room nurse in short term stays at hospitals in different cities.
When Heather moved back to Indiana after living in California for a while, she needed something to do for a living. Making jewelry was her hobby and she was hoping for a way to get her goods out beyond friends and family. Sharon and Jessica displayed their photography in a few locations but were open to the idea of having an art venue in Brown County to sell their images. The Busserts learned of a vacated shop in the Artists Colony complex and made a quick decision to lease it.
B3 Gallery represented six artists when the doors first opened in June of 2012. The number grew to more than twenty in just a few months.
30 Our Brown County March / April 2016