User:Juliagentner/gap analysis

What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?
Mural https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural

Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.
I found my gap on the Wikipedia page ‘Mural’. The gap that I want to focus on is in the mural and politics section of the Wikipedia article. The article mentions many movements that political street art has had a large impact on such as the mural movements in Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Ireland and Germany. I found the gap by searching many feminist mural artists to find they didn’t have pages then I went to the main page for murals and found a very narrow view of street art movements that excludes many influential and important artists. In this section the only artists mentioned and hyperlinked are straight male artists. I want to add a section on feminist mural artists because feminist movements have utilized the street art as a venue to show political statements and express their struggles. This way of portraying information legitimizes some mural art makers like Diego Rivera as ‘artists’ and their works as ‘art’ where others are just painting on the side of buildings without the recognition of their work as valuable art pieces. Those excluded from the ‘street artist cannon’ are women artists and non-western artists. The exclusion of entire movements and groups of feminist street artists contributes to the discourse that women can be portrayed in art but are not to be the ones with a voice producing that art. This is especially prevalent with street/ mural art since it is not seen as suitable for women to be scaling scaffolding to paint highly controversial and politicalized works of art.

==== Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.) ==== Mural art has also been very influential in feminist movements. Many feminist artists have gone to the streets to escape the dealer, critic, and museum dominated scope of formal art institutions in order to produce their work The Maestropiece on the Women’s Building in San Francisco, the large-scale mural was painted by a team of female mural artists in 1994 and depicts multi-cultural female historical icons. In Los Angeles, Judy Baca and a group of female artists with the help of 400 youths from the juvenile justice program and community came together to make the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a piece depicting the vast history of California’s from origins and colonialism through the major movements in history. There have also been a number of groups of feminist mural artists. One being the HOODsisters, standing for Honoring our Origins, Ourselves and our Dreams the HOODsisters the group of activists and artists have painted murals of indigenous women in California. Another group of feminist muralists were the Mujeres Muralistas, a group fog Chicana artists that pioneered and painted murals throughout California and nationally in the 1970s. The group fought against the lack of recognition of women artists in the Mexican mural movement and they made pieces such as Latinoamerica, Para el Mercado, Fantasy World for Childern and many more. The Mujeres Muralistas’ pieces focused on their Mexican heritage and the importance of women in their cultures.