Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Studio Museum 2018





The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented women visual artists of the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora from 2:30 pm – TBD on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd), New York, NY, 10037. A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Photographer Andrea Cauthen will be taking free portraits for Wikimedia Commons in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop and a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hosted by Studio Museum in Harlem will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women visual artists from the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

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 Schomburg Center
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library is generally recognized as the world’s leading research library devoted exclusively to documenting the history and cultural development of peoples of African descent worldwide. From its founding in 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, the Center has amassed vast collections of over 10 million items. More here.

About the Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.

More here.

About photographer, Andrea Cauthen
Andrea Cauthen is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary visual artist and photographer based in New York City whose work explores issues of home, ancestry, family and belonging. Andrea combines her years of color + print design for the fashion industry, and visual arts to experiment with silkscreen, color development, digital art, collage, illustration and photography in her artistic practice. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, National Geographic, Riddim Magazine, ARC Magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, and many others. She recently has contributed as a photographer to MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora co-edited by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu.

More here.

Event details

 * Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018
 * Time: 2:30 pm – TBD
 * Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd), New York, NY, 10037
 * Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, 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 #studiomuseum #schomburg
 * 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
 * Can't make it and want to know where to start? Click here.

Uploading photos

 * Wiki Image Guide
 * 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
 * Andrea Cauthen
 * Andrea Chung
 * Aisha Tandiwe Bell
 * Elia Alba
 * Roshini Kempadoo
 * Raquel Paiewonsky
 * Ada Balcacer
 * Rosalba Hernández
 * Shervone Neckles
 * Joy Gregory
 * Elsa Nuñez
 * Tiffany Smith (artist)
 * Maren Hassinger

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

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