Pittsburgh sculptor who decided to get serious about his craft at age 69 is now subject of an art book

 

by Paul Guggenheimer

Point Breeze resident Dan Droz has always been interested in sculpture.

But he said he was more of a “closet sculptor,” toiling away in his basement while he ran his own design firm doing design-related marketing and working as an adjunct professor at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design. After all, he needed to make a living.

Then, on the day three years ago that he turned 69, an age when a lot of people are retired or considering it, he “decided to make a change.”

Droz closed his business and decided to pursue sculpting full time.

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