Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/WaNaWari2021

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an online edit-a-thon that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on July 31st, 2021 at 12PM PST. An overview of Wiki basics, an introduction to the Wikimedia Community, and how to update and edit articles will be held at the beginning of the session. No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required and help will be available throughout the event. The event is free and open to all.

Details and Agenda
Date: Saturday, July 31st, 2021 Time: 12:00pm PST Location: Online @ bit (dot) ly/BLTEditSeattle Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, the curious... What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend! Agenda: * Introduction * Presentation /Wiki Overview * Editing time / Questions * Goals: Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for edit-a-thon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page * BLT Wiki onboarding presentation * Etherpad:BlackLunchTable - Keep track of live editing during our session * Resources and How-to's

About Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table (BLT) is a nonprofit organization and sixteen-year ongoing artist collaboration.BLT’s primary aim has been the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues.

Black Lunch Table Wikimedians mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. In the field of mainstream contemporary art, Black artists are still marginalized within our field.

Wikipedia estimates that 77% of their editors are white and 91% of their editors are men. Our work shifts this demographic and empowers people to write their own history. Our sessions and events, including BLT Photobooth and edit-a-thons, equip new editors with the skills and resources to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles and encourages existing editors to focus on Wikipedia knowledge gaps.

About Wa Na Wari
Wa Na Wari creates space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection.

We are a center for Black art and culture in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood. Sited in a 5th-generation Black-owned home, Wa Na Wari:

Hosts rotating exhibits by local and regional Black artists Provides a space for workshops, performances, and lectures Convenes changemakers, elders, youth, neighbors, and artists for collaboration, innovation, and community organizing. Operates an oral history studio for gathering and sharing the stories of Seattle’s historically Black Central District

Seattle’s Central District was 80% Black in the 1970s. Today, it is less than 14% Black. Seattle’s affordability crisis has eliminated spaces where Black artists can work, create, and live. Aging Black homeowners struggle to afford skyrocketing property taxes. Remaining Black residents experience isolation and economic hardship. Wa Na Wari addresses these community challenges in the following ways. We provide space for Black artists to collaborate, exhibit their work, and network with other artists, collectors, and patrons. We pay Black artists, writers, curators, performers, and gallery sitters, and in so doing put money back into the regional Black creative economy. We present a new model for sustainable Black homeownership by financially supporting the elderly Black homeowner in whose home Wa Na Wari is located, and we regularly convene other Black homeowners to explore this model.

www.wanawari.org

About The Grocery Studios
The Grocery is the private art studio of Demi Raven and Janet Galore on North Beacon Hill. The studio is a creative space where we host occasional pop-up art exhibitions, workshops, lectures, music performances, and other creative activities. The building has deep roots in the community, born as a corner grocery store that served the neighborhood from 1929 through the late 1990s. We seek to support and incubate creative endeavors that highlight the voices of and enrich the local community.

The building was built in 1929, owned by Sam and Mary Ulovich, who ran a grocery store there until 1943. In 1955, the store was listed as Three Thousand and One Grocery. Masaru Nomura purchased the building in November of 1956, and from 1961 through 1965, the building was known as Fred’s Grocery. The building has also served as a restaurant supply, and an outreach ministry from 1998-2005. The building is listed in the City of Seattle historic sites.

https://thegrocerystudios.com/

Articles and Artists to edit
Black Lunch Table's task list is made up of Black visual artists who are under-represented on Wikipedia. We welcome additions to our list so long as they are within our scope. We encourage editors to suggest artists who do not have a page or whose page is a stub over adding an artist who already has a substantial page and presence. Please always defer to Wikipedia's NOTABILTY guidelines for new pages.

BLT's Main Task List

Artists associated with Seattle
Please suggest specific artists, curators and arts workers who are Black, notable and need their article created or whose existing article needs improvement. Be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines, thanks!


 * Ahamefule Oluo
 * Aisha Harrison
 * Al Doggett
 * Al Smith (photographer)
 * Aramis O. Hamer
 * Arvie Smith
 * Barry Johnson (artist)
 * Black Embodiments Studio
 * Brenetta Ward
 * C. Davida Ingram
 * Christopher Shaw (artist)
 * CD Forum
 * Dani Tirrell
 * David Rue
 * Denzil Hurley
 * Earnest D. Thomas
 * Elisheba Johnson
 * Esther Ervin
 * Hasaan Kirkland
 * Henry Jackson Spieker
 * Inye Wokoma
 * Isolde Brielmaier
 * James W. Washington
 * Jazz Brown
 * Jessica Rycheal
 * Jite Agbro
 * Kemi Adeyemi
 * Kimisha Turner
 * Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
 * Lindsay Zae Summers
 * Lisa Myers Bullmash
 * Mariane Ibrahim
 * Marita Dingus
 * Markeith Wiley
 * Martyr Sauce
 * Milt Simons
 * Moses Sun
 * Preston Wadley
 * Porscha Shaw
 * Onyx Fine Arts Collective
 * Randy Ford
 * Royal Alley-Barnes
 * Sadiqua Iman
 * Sandra Jackson-Dumont
 * Sharita Towne
 * Storme Webber
 * Takiyah Ward
 * Tariqa Waters
 * Wa Na Wari
 * Xenobia Bailey
 * Zorn B. Taylor

Wikicommons Photos
Photographs and images are an important part of Wiki as well. If you are interested in uploading images use the below resources to learn how and make sure you have the right licensing for all images uploaded.
 * |Wiki Image Guide
 * Where to find them.
 * Dos and Donts
 * Asking an artist for images.

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