User:Kmblim/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * "Gwendolyn Knight"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The "Early life and education section" contains information that should be separated into a different category, as a lot of the information is about her adulthood, her time with the Works Progress Administration, and her marriage to Jacob Lawrence. Additional information I have found relates to her posthumous recognition in private collections and in, more specifically, the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize that is awarded biannually by the Seattle Art Museum to Black artists who are in the beginning of their careers.


 * Sources
 * https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-art-biographies/gwendolyn-knight
 * https://www.ganttcenter.org/exhibitions/by-and-about-women/
 * http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/about-sam/artist-opportunities

Option 2

 * Article title
 * "Thelma Johnson Streat"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead seems rather short for the amount of information that is already present in the article. The list of honors and accomplishments present is long and appears to be well-researched, but the specificity is not where it should be. For example, it mentions that Streat was the first African-American woman to have a painting at the MOMA, but it does not specify what painting; I believe more work can be done to elaborate on her accomplishments, as there are many!


 * Sources
 * https://blackartstory.org/2020/08/11/profile-thelma-johnson-streat-1912-1959/
 * https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/streat_thelma_johnson/#.X5eiYVNKhQJ

Option 3

 * Article title
 * "Susan Smith-Pinelo"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article does hold a lot of the categories that I have seen with other artists, but its information in terms of Smith-Pinelo's work is rather lacking and only focuses on the aspects of one of her pieces as it relates to her overall artistic aesthetics.


 * Sources
 * https://www.rovetv.net/an-appreciation-of-past-achievements/
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/art-in-review-dl-the-down-low-in-contemporary-art.html
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/arts/art-review-out-of-the-vociferous-planet-and-in-the-orbit-of-funk-and-hip-hop.html
 * https://www.newsweek.com/battle-your-brain-194350
 * **I do remember the Wiki Edu tutorial that highlighted not using news sources, but they do include some relevant mentions of different artworks that I have not seen on her Wikipedia page so far--would those be able to be referenced?

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