Dana Saylor

Dana Saylor is an artist, genealogist and historian, living in downtown Buffalo. Her first solo art show took place at 464 Gallery on July 22, 2011. Her artwork is genealogical in nature, concerned with connection, relevance, power, and the role history plays in our modern lives. She documents her ancestors and their daily experiences through oil portraits and collaged documents, offering up universal truths about what it means to be human, across time.

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In her previous incarnation as a jewelry designer, she used vintage costume pieces, "upcycling" old items into new and exciting works of jewelry art. Dana received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the State University of New York at Oswego in 2001. She moved to Buffalo in November of 2008, and since then, has become involved in many preservation efforts in the city, has been published in Western New York Heritage Magazine, was a New York State Scholar at the National Preservation Conference 2011, and offers historic property research on contract.