Irene Pasinski-Sailer (Wajchler)
Industrial designer, artist
Born Oct. 14, 1923, Pittsburgh (PA), U.S.; daughter of Antoni and Mary (Lorenz); married Paul Sailer.
Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA), 1945; Ecole du Louvre, and Institut d'Art Applique a l'Industrie, Paris (France), 1950.
Career: president, Irene Pasinski Association, Pittsburgh, 1957 -.
Author: numerous one person exhibitions, i.a.: Upstairs Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1963, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1967, Ward - Nasse Gallery, Boston (MA), 1967, New York City, 1977, 1988, West Wirginia University Art Gallery, Morgantown, 1967, 1974, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, 1968, 1972, 1978, Chatauqua Art Association (NY), 1971, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown (OH), 1977, Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 1977, Seton Hall College, 1992; numerous group exhibitions.
Member of: president, Association of Artists of Pittsburgh; board directors member, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater (vice president, 1976-90); board directors member, past president, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; past chairman, City of Pittsburgh Art Commission; board directors member, Society for Contemporary Crafts; past vice president, Industrial Design Society of America; Western Pennsylvania Society of Sculptors; numerous artistic commission.
Honors, i.a.: fellowship, Fulbright Foundation, 1950; awards, Association of Artists of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1970, 1972; Western Pennsylvania Society of Sculptors awards, 1965, 1976; Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1974; sculpture purchase award, Greater Pittsburgh for the Blind, 1980; listed in Who's Who in American Art.
Affiliation: Independent.
Languages: English, Polish, French.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996.