Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Southeast Queens Biennial 2018



The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project hosted an edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm EdT on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at The Queens Library. A training session was held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Please bring your laptop and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at The Queens Library will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Queens area visual artists from the African Diaspora, artists featured in the 2018 Southeast Queens Biennial and related subjects. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have a library resources and a list of suggested artists and music on hand.

History of The Black Lunch Table
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart  which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 10 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

About the Southeast Queens Biennial
No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab and York College Fine Arts Gallery present the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points. In its inaugural year, the Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points identifies movement as an organizing principle for understanding Southeast Queens as a gateway for travel and a source of cultural production and exchange deeply rooted in its immigrant communities. This concept finds its roots in the writing of bell hooks, a visionary feminist activist and author, who speaks to the transformative potential of shifting one’s focus to consider the margin and center not as disparate parts, but as making up a whole body. Locus, from the Latin for “location” or “place,” is used in geometry to refer to a set of points that meet a given condition. Combined, these concepts suggest an active way of seeing that dismantles the notion of a dominant center by shifting perceptions of what makes up both center and periphery. More here.

Event details

 * Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018
 * Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
 * Location: The Queens Library,  89 – 11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens
 * Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
 * Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
 * Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
 * What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
 * Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable #SEQueensBiennial
 * Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
 * Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

 * Presentation / overview
 * Editing time
 * Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
 * For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

 * Where to find them.
 * Dos and Donts
 * Asking an artist for images.

Possible articles to edit
Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!
 * Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
 * denotes Infobox is needed

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:


 * Suggested Name Here

Southeast Queens Biennial artists
'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!'''


 * Salimah Ali
 * Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess
 * Natali S. Bravo-Barbee
 * Ify Chiejina
 * Renee Harper
 * Janet Henry
 * Corona Johnson
 * Rejin Leys
 * Sana Musasama
 * Shervone Neckles
 * Odathrowback
 * Okechukwu Okegrass Ofiaeli
 * Elizabeth Velazquez
 * Lisa Wade

Other biennial-related articles
'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!'''


 * Store Front Museum
 * Margaret Rose Vendryes
 * Jamaica Center for Arts Learning
 * Emmett Wigglesworth

Queens-affiliated artists
'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!'''

Attendees

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