Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/meetup UPenn 2024



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Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon at University of Pennsylvania's Fisher Fine Arts Library focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 from 12:30 PM-4 PM. A training session will be held at the beginning but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

A special pop up photo studio will be hosted by Taj DeVore-Bey to take free portraits for Wikipedia and document the event.

Please bring your laptop so you can join the editing and bring a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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 13 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 Fisher Fine Arts Library
The Fisher Fine Arts Library supports study, teaching and research in contemporary and historical aspects of art, architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, landscape architecture, studio art, and urban design. Text and image collections, in analog and digital form, have a global reach and concentrate on the arts of the western experience, Islam, South Asia and East Asia, from prehistory to the present. Our digital and print resources are designed to meet the needs of students and faculty of the departments, schools and programs of the University of Pennsylvania.

Event details

 * Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
 * Time: 12:30 PM - 4 PM
 * Location: Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
 * 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
 * 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 edit-a-thon 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 visual artists of the African Diaspora associated with UPenn 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:


 * suggest names here
 * Eric G. Pryor
 * Rashayla Marie Brown
 * Barbara Earl Thomas
 * Jamal Cyrus
 * Dindga McCannon
 * Ashley Jones, Indiana U of PA
 * Nsenga Knight
 * Joy O. Ude
 * Odili Donald Odita
 * Keith Anthony Morrison
 * Stanley Whitney
 * Karyn Olivier
 * Jennifer Packer
 * Linda Earle
 * William Villalongo
 * Deborah Grant (artist)
 * M. Asli Dukan
 * Erlin Geffrard
 * James Maurelle
 * Dane Tilghman
 * Andre Guichard
 * Richard Watson (artist)
 * Louis Massiah
 * Syd Carpenter
 * The African American Museum in Philadelphia
 * Ernel Martinez
 * Wilmer Wilson IV
 * James Atkins (b. 1941)
 * Morris Atkinson Blackburn
 * James Brantley (b. 1945)*
 * Barbara Bullock
 * Brandywine Workshop
 * Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr.
 * Donald Eugene Camp (b. 1940)
 * Syd Carpenter (b. 1953)
 * Reba Dickerson-Hill (1919–1994)
 * James Dupree
 * Walter Edmonds (1938– 2011)
 * Barkley L. Hendricks
 * Louise Clement Hoff, (b. 1926)
 * Robert L. Jefferson (1929-2014)
 * LeRoy Johnson (b. 1937)
 * Ida Jones (1874–1959)
 * John W. Mosley
 * Raymond Saunders (b. 1934)
 * Charles Searles
 * Louise B Sloan (1932–2008)
 * Ellen Powell Tiberino (1938–1992)
 * Howard N Watson (b. 1929)
 * Stanley Whitney (b. 1946)
 * Richard J. Watson (b. 1946)

=Artists associated with Philadelphia=

Attendees

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