Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/The Highline 2018



The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host our FIRST OUTDOOR edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT on Monday, July 9, 2018 at the High Line, 14th Street passage. A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Photographer Tiffany Smith will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop and if you have a hotspot, please bring that too! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at The High Line will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of New York area visual artists from the African Diaspora, artists featured in the High Line programming 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 Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

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 High Line
Through excellence in operations, stewardship, innovative programming, and world-class design, we seek to engage the vibrant and diverse community on and around the High Line, and to raise the essential private funding to help complete the High Line's construction and create an endowment for its future operations.

Friends of the High Line raises the funding to maintain and operate the High Line and its programs from both private and public sources.

More here.

Event details

 * Date: Monday, July 9, 2018
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
 * Location: The High Line,  14th Street passage, NYC
 * 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! Also bring a HOTSPOT if you have one!
 * Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable #TheHighLine
 * 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

 * |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

The Highline- related artists
'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!''' See this full archive of artworks and artists on the High Line. Below are visual artists of the African Diaspora who are in the High Line's archive:


 * El Anatsui
 * Maria Thereza Alves
 * Kevin Beasley
 * Jamal Cyrus
 * Danielle Dean
 * Mariana Castillo Deball
 * Iman Issa
 * Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
 * LaToya Ruby Frazier
 * Rashid Johnson
 * Lauren Kelley
 * Shaun Leonardo
 * Basim Magdy
 * Kerry James Marshall
 * Nástio Mosquito
 * Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
 * Jesús “Bubu” Negrón
 * Demetrius Oliver
 * Damián Ortega
 * Benjamin Patterson (artist)
 * Pope.L
 * Narcissister
 * Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
 * Faith Ringgold
 * Kenya (Robinson)
 * Jacolby Satterwhite
 * Gabriel Sierra
 * Xaviera Simmons
 * Sable Elyse Smith
 * Henry Taylor
 * Mario Garcia Torres
 * Nari Ward

New York-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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