User:Raeleenc/gap analysis

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?

There was no title of the article as I was just editing a pre-existing artist page. Since there was no article the title of my edit could be "Pacita Abad breaking the sex barrier".
 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I had found this gap on Wikipedia's feminist art page where it had lead me to Pacita Abad's wiki page. I noticed not much was listed for the artist and her contributions to the art community so I decided to fill the gap of her personal life as well as her works and awards she had accomplished. This gap limits the knowledge or structures such as gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality through the omission of Pacita’s accomplishments in her art career and the communities she had worked in. Pacita had greatly contributed her time to each community she had visited across the world to teach art and its values as she believed that everyone had the right to learn how to express themselves despite their gender, age and ethnic background. By filling this gap Pacita would receive credit and acknowledgment for her hard work and the opportunities she had opened for women in her home country, the Philippines, and for contributing her knowledge to each community she visited.
 * 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.)

One major edit that I included to Pacita's wiki page is her TOYM award which is the Ten Outstanding Men award. TOYM was created in 1959 where for 25 consecutive years this prestigious award has only been received by men until 1984 where Pacita had graciously accepted the award and broke the sex barrier that men were the only credible ones able to receive this award. This event in time allowed Pacita to open other opportunities for women and genders of all ages that one will be recognized for their hard work and dedication despite not being of male gender. This edit is under the works section in which I had added a two whole paragraphs at the end as well as include more of her personal life and education as it greatly influenced her art career and her decision of majoring in art instead of law in which she originally came to the states to study for. This edit will be under her personal life section in which I included education in the title as well.

Current Version:

Personal Life
Abad earned a BA in political science at the University of the Philippines in 1967. In 1970, she went to the United States intending to study law, but instead earned a degree (MA) in Asian History at Lone Mountain College (University of San Francisco) in 1972. Pacita, while in California, she then married Stanford MBAstudent, Jack Garrity, who became an international development economist.[5] Abad studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City. She lived on 5 different continents and worked in more than 50 countries, including Guatemala, Mexico, India, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Indonesia.

Works
Her early paintings were primarily figurative socio-political works of people and primitive masks. Another series was large scale paintings of underwater scenes, tropical flowers and animal wildlife. Pacita's most extensive body of work, however, is her vibrant, colorful abstract work - many very large scale canvases, but also a number of small collages - on a range of materials from canvas and paper to bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass. Abad created over 4,000 artworks. She painted a 55-meter long Alkaff Bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored circles.

Abad developed a technique of trapunto painting (named after a quilting technique), which entailed stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional, sculptural effect. She then began incorporating into the surface of her paintings materials such as traditional cloth, mirrors, beads, shells, plastic buttons and other objects

Edited Version:

For the Personal life and education I had added information of Pacita Abad's personal life and how it influenced her work as well as her professors who helped launch her art career. As for the works section I added a whole new paragraph as well as add/edit pre-existing information in how Pacita had contributed to the communities she had worked in as well as the prestigious award she had received which broke sex barriers for women in the Philippines and created awareness that women just have much capability of great achievements than men.

Personal Life and Education
Abad earned a BA in political science at the University of the Philippines in 1967. In 1970, she went to the United States intending to study law, but instead earned a degree (MA) in Asian History at Lone Mountain College (University of San Francisco) in 1972 where she supported herself as a seamstress and atypist[1]. Abad studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City. She lived on 6 different continents and worked in more than 50 countries[2], including Guatemala, Mexico, India, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Indonesia. At Corcoran School of Art Pacita studied under Berthold Schmutzhart[3] and Blaine Larson in which the two professors had helped launch her artistic career. Pacita then further pursued her studies at The Art Students League in New York where she concentrated on still life and figurative drawing[4]under John Helicker and Robert Beverly

During Pacita's time in San Francisco art scene she had married painter George Kleiman, though they later separated. She then decided to hitchhike across Asia for a year with Jack Garrity, and then returned to the U.S. to study painting, first at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C. and later, at The Art Students League in New York City While in California, she then married Stanford MBAstudent, Jack Garrity, who became an international development economist.[5]

Works
Her early paintings were primarily figurative socio-political works of people and primitive masks. Another series was large scale paintings of underwater scenes, tropical flowers and animal wildlife. Pacita's most extensive body of work, however, is her vibrant, colorful abstract work - many very large scale canvases, but also a number of small collages - on a range of materials from canvas and paper to bark cloth, metal, ceramics and glass. Abad created over 4,500 artworks[6]. She painted a 55-meter long Alkaff Bridge in Singapore and covered it with 2,350 multicolored circles, just a few months before she died.

Abad developed a technique of trapunto painting (named after a quilting technique), which entailed stitching and stuffing her painted canvases to give them a three-dimensional, sculptural effect. She then began incorporating into the surface of her paintings materials such as traditional cloth, mirrors, beads, shells, plastic buttons and other objects.

Pacita had also received numerous awards during her artistic career in which her most memorable award was her first. Pacita had received the TOYM Award[1] for Art in the Philippines in 1984[7]. Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) is an award that has always been given to men for the last 25 years until in 1984 where Pacita Abad had become the first woman ever to receive this prestigious award. In addition to Pacita receiving this award it had created a public uproar throughout her community and the country of the Philippines as there were angry letters sent to editors of published newspapers from men and male artists who thought that they, not Pacita, should have received the award. Despite the uproar Pacita was thrilled that she had broken the sex barrier for women as women are just as capable as men to be recognized and acknowledge of their work in any field that one is pursing. Pacita also stated in her acceptance speech that “it was long overdue that Filipina women were recognized, as the Philippines was full of outstanding women” and referred proudly to her mother.

This award later then changed to TOYF “The Outstanding Young Filipinos” in 1996, “The Outstanding Young Filipinos” to give women equal exposure and emphasis in the search as Pacita played an integral part of the search as she had received the award in 1984. In 1999, the name was then reverted back to its original name of TOYM to preserve the sanctity of the awards, as the word “men “ does not intend to distinguish the difference in gender.
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 * https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/pacita-abad
 * http://www.pacitaabad.com/Artist/Artist.php
 * http://www.singaporeartbridge.com/
 * https://www.artsy.net/article/jack-garrity-pacita-abad-woman-of-color
 * http://www.pacitaabad.com/PDF/Bulletin%20Today%20Aug85.pdf