The arts festival explores the theme “Unseen/Unheard.”

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 56^th year, draws an estimated 400,000 during its 10 days in and around Point State Park. That’s down from the estimated 600,000 attendees annually pre-2009, when the festival lasted 17 days. But it’s still more bodies than you’ll find anywhere else in a comparable timeframe — even if many of them come just for the free concerts, crafts market and deep-fried snacks.

This year, festival director Veronica Corpuz, of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is taking advantage of those numbers to highlight less-exposed viewpoints via the festival’s visual-arts, dance, film and literary components.

At Rochester, N.Y.-based Michelle Illuminato’s “Lost + Found Factory” (occupying the old Gateway Center visitors’ center), artists will work to recreate beloved objects people have lost, and to return them to their owners. (The installation will also prompt Attack Theatre’s “Lost + Found: Memories Through Movement,” a June 7 dance performance incorporating interaction with festival patrons.)

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