Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/meetup Stoveworks 2023

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon and photo booth that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on Friday, May 19th and 20th, 2023. 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
Editathon Date: Friday, May 19th, 2023 Time: 5-8pm EST Photo Booth Date: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 Time: 12-3pm EST EST Location: Stove Works, 1250 E 13th Street, Chattanooga, TN 37408 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 Stove Works
Stove Works’ goal is to use Contemporary Art as a megaphone in order to foster an environment of exchange and reflection, to provide opportunities to learn from the experiences of others and to give voice. Stove Works seeks to bring outside elements into Chattanooga where creators, their work, and those that witness are engaged in a dynamic process: all three are impacted by the other in an evolving way, enriching outcomes for all. Stove Works aims to draw greater attention to the production of contemporary works in the Southeast, expand and educate an audience outside of traditional art goers, create an active base of arts advocates, and further establish the Southeast’s (and Chattanooga’s) contribution to the national dialogue surrounding contemporary art.

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. Google resources

BLT's Main Task List

Suggestions of artists associated with Tennessee
Please suggest specific artists who are notable Black artists who need their article created or whose existing article needs improvement. Be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines, thanks!


 * Beauford Delaney
 * David Driskell
 * Aaron Douglas
 * Greg Ridley
 * William Edmondson
 * Michael McBride
 * James Threalkill
 * Samuel Dunson
 * Alicia Henry
 * Barbara Bullock

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.

Attendees

 * Jediskykisser (talk) 22:11, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Raggachampiongirl (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Morganza Bean (talk) 22:06, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sankofa23 (talk) 22:09, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Elotemxn311 (talk) 23:01, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thefirenextrhyme (talk) 23:12, 19 May 2023 (UTC)