Three Rivers Arts Festival | Historic Pittsburgh

1965/1971

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Title
Three Rivers Arts Festival
Identifier
MSP285.B003.F23.I05
Source Identifier
MSP285.B003.F23.I05
Description
The Three Rivers Arts Festival was held in the plazas and lobbies of the five buildings of Pittsburgh's Gateway Center through courtesy of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and was sponsored by Carnegie Institute of Art. The juried art on display included paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and crafts. Framed and matted works were hung outdoors in specially designed, weatherproof pavilions, and crafts were shown indoors. The Festival, a free exposition, was supported through the generosity of foundations, corporations, interested individuals, business associations, the City of Pittsburgh, and the County of Allegheny. A great deal of the festival's success rested with its volunteer workers. In 1970 their number more than doubled from 900 to 2,000 since the festival first started in 1960. Since 1961, it had jurors of national prominence and they have also acted as a consultants in forming and guiding similar arts fairs in several states.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Three Rivers Arts Festival (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Arts festivals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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