The Wendi Miller Legacy Project
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My name is Cooper and I'm fundraising to honor my parent Wendi Miller. For 50 years she served the Pittsburgh arts community as a picture framer who never let someone's economic status hinder their creative spirit. She was also a human rights advocate that in the mid 1990s helped usher the law that prevents housing and job discrimination of transgendered people in the city. She turned her frame shop into a transitional housing for transgender refugees and for may successful years the frame shop was operated by only trans-women. She passed away on April, 6th 2023, two days before she was honored by the City Council with a proclamation of her contributions to the city.
Read her https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2023/04/26/wendi-ann-miller-death/stories/202304260116" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">obituary here
Check out the archive in progress: archive.wendilegacy.org
Short term goals:
- Month long gallery exhibit showcasing her life, art and advocacy.
- Custom gravestone celebrating her half century of picture framing and transgender activism, including a celebratory second line procession to her gravesite in Allegheny Cemetery.
Long term fundraising goals:
- Architectural plans, safety inspection, hazard removal for 6020 Centre.
- Renovation to the Frameshop to support Pittsburgh artist and LGBTQIA+ community.
- LGBTQIA+BNB - Develop a supportive housing and job placement non-profit space for displaced LGBTQIA+ diaspora.
Organizer
Cooper Miller
Organizer
Pittsburgh, PA