User:Annalazzara2112/Rose B. Simpson/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Outline of proposed changes
In Rose B. Simpson’s existing Wikipedia article, there is enough information to get an idea of who she is and where her work has been or can be seen (current and past exhibitions). There are eight existing sections (each is short): Biography, education, artwork, exhibitions, collections, awards, personal life, and musical career.

Although the article extensively covers where her work has been shown, I believe it would be beneficial to have more information about the artwork itself. The section of the article titled “Artwork” is only one sentence, which is just not enough for an artist’s Wikipedia page! The existing sentence reads, “Simpson is a mixed-media artist, whose work artwork investigates the complex issues of past, present and future aspects of humanity's tenuous survival in our current ecological condition.” While this an adequate summary sentence, I think the article will benefit from having more information about her subject matter, the goals she tries to accomplish with her work, and a sentence or two about her performance art, which she calls “transformances.” I would also like to add a bit about her sculpting techniques, since she developed a unique was of assembling clay called “slap-slab.” This is her signature style, so it would be important to include it in the artwork section.

I would also like to add a section titled, “Selected works,” inspired by a section I saw on another artist’s Wikipedia. There, I would include two artworks that are representative of her overall work with short descriptions. I thought it was a good way to highlight a few works to encourage the reader to explore more of her work. For the artworks, I will probably select Maria (2014) and Counterculture (2022) since I have researched the most information about these works to create a substantive description.