day one

day one
My name is Jo Nasvik and The Missoula Dress Project is a one-month performance art piece as part of my BFA thesis. As an artist I am interested in the intersection of street art, performance art, and drawing. During the month of February I have committed to wearing this wedding gown daily and will be sewing and pinning onto the dress the evidence of my consumption. Such as coffee cups, wrappers, plastic bags, paper scraps, aluminum cans.....and so on. It is important to me that my art has cultural meaning, so I chose a wedding dress to indicate the excessive "marriage" between consumers and industry.


Sunday, February 12, 2012


Day 11 & 12
The weekend was great! I got to hang out with a bunch of friends, and I got a lot of work done on the dress, though I still haven't gotten caught up yet with all of my evidence yet. I decided to include a picture of my drawing board. I draw to figure out where to put everything on the dress. I've been thinking about making a suit out of dollar bills to go with the dress, but I have not decided that yet. There are many possibilities. That was the theme of the weekend....."anything is possible" which is a pretty exciting thing to realize.


Highlights of the Weekend
1. Making a new friend
2. New snowfall
3. Having fun in the dress

Lowlights of the Weekend
1. Sewing = back aches
2. Always having to talk about the dress
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