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Bushman, Leo Norman
Bushman, L.N.
Bushman, L. N.
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Leo Bushman was born in Mishawaka, IN in 1917. In 1936, Leo received a B.F.A. with honours (Industrial Design), at the School of the Arts Institute in Chicago. His first teaching assignment was at the University of Notre Dame, IN from 1939-1940. From 1941-1945, he served in the U.S. Army, first as a Cadet Pilot then as a Technical Illustrator and Weight and Balance Engineer. In 1947, he received his M.F.A. from Columbia University, New York, and taught at the New York State Institute of Applied Arts & Science, the University of California, Fresno and the Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA, where he headed the Technical Illustration Department at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA. He completed his doctoral requirements for ED.D at Stanford University, CA in 1953.
In the mid-sixties Leo came to Canada to work at the University of Calgary as an Associate Professor because of his extensive experience working with indigenous peoples. Bushman retired from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1982, later serving as a board-appointed Research Associate at the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) and as Curator of the Institute’s extensive collection of Arctic drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, film and video.
Bushman died August 8, 2005