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Lost & Found Factory is going to Texas!
The Lost + Found Factory was recently invited to visit University of North Texas in Denton in February as part of Mary Jo and V. Lane Rawlins Fine Arts Series. This new version will be redesigned as a pop-up factory and will be operated by UNT young artists and fingers crossed, some of the amazing…
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Three Rivers Arts fest continues to evolve
“The work that most successfully integrated was Michelle Illuminato’s “Lost & Found Factory,” which invited visitors to describe an object, person or event that had been lost, and provided a symbolic replacement for it, created by artists on site. Demand was so high that daily intake had to be restricted.” Three Rivers Arts fest continues…
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Lost & Found Factory revives missing objects as public art
“At the Lost & Found Factory, what is gone is not forgotten, nor is it ever truly gone. Artist M. Michelle Illuminato is helping them reconnect to what they miss.” Lost & Found Factory revives missing objects as public art at Three Rivers Arts Festival By Gabe Rosenberg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Photos: Allison Farrand/Post-Gazette At the Lost & Found…
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Arts Festival’s “Lost & Found” Serves as Healing Factory
Arts Festival’s “Lost & Found” Serves as Healing Factory “In a little building of steel and glass along Liberty Avenue Extension, people share a story of something they’ve lost: What did it look like, what did it sound like, how did it taste, why do you want it back? They are encouraged to sketch a…
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The arts festival explores the theme “Unseen/Unheard.”
The arts festival explores the theme “Unseen/Unheard.” June 3, 2015 ByBill O’Driscoll / Pittsburgh City Paper For visual or performing artists wishing to be seen or heard in Pittsburgh, it’s hard to top the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. The free fest, now in its 56th year, draws an estimated 400,000 during its 10 days…
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Public Art Converges at the Point
Brandon Getz’s article “Public Art Converges at the Point” M. Michelle Illuminato’s Lost + Found Factory pays tribute to the city’s industrial history, merging it with the personal history of festival-goers as it attempts to manufacture lost things. “She not only wants to make a factory where you can watch things being made,” explains Wasserman,…
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The Lost and Found Factory sign is up
The Lost and Found Factory Sign Is Up! The sign for the Lost & Found Factory has been installed. Soon we’ll be ready for business. SaveSave
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Center for Creative Reuse Sponsors LFF!
A big thank you to the lovely people at the Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse for the material sponsorship! The LFF will be recycling and reusing loads of fabric, paper, paint, thread, stuffing and oddball bits and bobs! Learn more about this Pittsburgh treasure trove here: Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse and like them on…