CALICO DRess NO. 3
The Frick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA / 2023
Created by local embroiders, craftspeople and imaginative visitors of all ages to The Frick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, over three months.
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The second stage of its three-stop 2023-2024 US tour, the exhibition in early 2024 of The Red Dress at The Frick Pittsburgh curated by Dawn Brean also saw the presentation of Calico Dress No. 3. A collaboration of 150 contributors - including arts collectives, community organisations and individuals - over three months, it was led by Linda Brown of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.
The dress aimed to capture both personal stories and cultural heritage reflecting the rich history of Pittsburgh. It also represented an important outreach activity for The Frick Pittsburgh, engaging with refugee and migrant support groups and Women of Visions Inc., the longest-running collective of Black women visual artists in the United States, among other organisations.
Over 16,000 visitors attended the exhibition, including an estimated 1000 in the final weekend. Alongside The Red Dress and an engaging timeline of the wider project, Calico Dress No. 3 was a much-admired element of the exhibition, displaying not only embroidery styles but a wide variety of fibre art techniques.
Calico Dress No. 3 was displayed with dresses No. 2 and 4 at the Fuller Craft Museum in the Spring of 2024. It is now in the care of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.
https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/Exhibition-The-Red-Dress
OUR SUPPORTERS
A huge thank you to all who have given their time, energy, enthusiasm, advice, experience and support to The Red Dress project over the years.
In addition to the organisations below, funding has been gratefully received from a number of private donations and via three crowdfunding campaigns in 2020, 2022 and 2024.
In addition to the organisations below, funding has been gratefully received from a number of private donations and via three crowdfunding campaigns in 2020, 2022 and 2024.












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