The Lost Pittsburgh School
August 6 – 27, 2011
Lectures/performances each Saturday
Danilova Navratilova Malloy, born 1948.
Dana inherited, in a direct line from her grandfather Ion, a mastery of ceramic and glass design. His work was well known in prewar Bratislava and he trained his son Petr in the same medium, who consequently, after moving to the United States in 1960 to take a job with PPG, passed the torch to his middle daughter.
She took her degree in fine and industrial design from Carnegie Mellon, was hired by Allegheny County as a civil engineer, briefly managing several of Ryan Avedissian's lapsed plans, but in a dying industrial economy her commissions were consistently simplified or abridged.
She left the public sector, and for two decades retreated into her Edgewood studio surrounded by her children and supported by her husband Dave. In the late nineties she emerged as one of Pittsburgh’s finest mosaic and stained glass artists. Her work can be found in collections and public spaces throughout the city. But it was her unfinished façade plan for 911 Penn Ave that would have altered downtown Pittsburgh's historic corridor and been the highlight of a truly cultural district 20 years before the Federal Main Street project recast the nation's core urban areas with its toe-the-line historicism. An opportunity was lost to bring the grace and felicity of Central Europe, of Mittel Europa Arte Moderne, to a town where so many children of that region found refuge.
Dana still lives in Edgewood and teaches classes at the Pittsburgh Glass Center in Garfield. She also does tarot readings on the side with her Reike master sister Sharon.
Lectures/performances each Saturday
Danilova Navratilova Malloy, born 1948.
Dana inherited, in a direct line from her grandfather Ion, a mastery of ceramic and glass design. His work was well known in prewar Bratislava and he trained his son Petr in the same medium, who consequently, after moving to the United States in 1960 to take a job with PPG, passed the torch to his middle daughter.
She took her degree in fine and industrial design from Carnegie Mellon, was hired by Allegheny County as a civil engineer, briefly managing several of Ryan Avedissian's lapsed plans, but in a dying industrial economy her commissions were consistently simplified or abridged.
She left the public sector, and for two decades retreated into her Edgewood studio surrounded by her children and supported by her husband Dave. In the late nineties she emerged as one of Pittsburgh’s finest mosaic and stained glass artists. Her work can be found in collections and public spaces throughout the city. But it was her unfinished façade plan for 911 Penn Ave that would have altered downtown Pittsburgh's historic corridor and been the highlight of a truly cultural district 20 years before the Federal Main Street project recast the nation's core urban areas with its toe-the-line historicism. An opportunity was lost to bring the grace and felicity of Central Europe, of Mittel Europa Arte Moderne, to a town where so many children of that region found refuge.
Dana still lives in Edgewood and teaches classes at the Pittsburgh Glass Center in Garfield. She also does tarot readings on the side with her Reike master sister Sharon.
