Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/oxbow 2022

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 Saturday, June 25th, 2022. 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, June 25th, 2022 Location: Oxbow 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 Oxbow School of Art
https://www.ox-bow.org/

Black Lunch Table tasks
Although our project focuses on visual artists of the Black Diaspora, you are welcomed to edit whatever you want. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines before you create a new page. Thanks!



OxBow Faculty on BLT's list

 * Arnold Kemp
 * Nick Cave (performance artist)
 * Willie Cole
 * Theaster Gates
 * Danny Giles
 * Ayanah Moor
 * Krista Franklin
 * Jina Valentine
 * Heather Hart
 * Corey Pemberton
 * Shinique Smith
 * Kym Pinder
 * Paula Wilson
 * Dyymond Whipper-Young
 * Abigail Lucien
 * Thomas Lucas (artist)
 * Preston Jackson
 * Peter Williams (painter)
 * Richard_Hunt_(sculptor)
 * Eliza Myrie

OxBow Alumni & Visiting Artists on BLT's list

 * Kamau Patton
 * D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem
 * Sarah Workneh
 * Jacolby Satterwhite
 * Paul Pfeiffer (artist)
 * John Bankston
 * Anissa Mack
 * Hamza Walker
 * Theaster Gates
 * Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
 * Trenton Doyle Hancock
 * Laylah Ali
 * Kalup Linzy
 * Robert Pruitt (artist)
 * Abigail DeVille
 * Kori Newkirk
 * Candida Alvarez
 * Huey Copeland
 * Anoka Faruque
 * Lakela Brown
 * Adeleke Sangoyoyin
 * Alexander Wrencher

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

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