The Wendi Miller Legacy Project

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.

For more information on Wendi: https://millerfra.me/shop/

Short term goals:

Month long gallery exhibit showcasing her life, art and advocacy: $10,000

Custom Headstone celebrating her half century of picture framing and transgender activism, including a celebratory second line procession to her gravesite in Allegheny Cemetery: $20,000

Long Term fundraising goals:

Architectural plans, safety inspection, hazard removal for 6020 Centre.

Renovation to the Frameshop to allow for a future framer to support the Pittsburgh arts community.

LGBTQIA+BNB - Develop a supportive housing and job placement non-profit space for displaced LGBTQIA+ diaspora.