Wikipedia:Meetup/Eugene/ArtAndFeminism 2016



Join us at The Architecture and Allied Arts (A&AA) Library, 200 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd, University of Oregon on Saturday, March 5th from noon to 5pm for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and refreshments. University of Oregon

Event information
Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support. We invite people of all gender identities and expressions, particularly trans- and cis-gendered women, to participate.
 * Date: Saturday, March 5, 2016
 * Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Venue: Architecture and Allied Arts Library (AAA) Libraries - 200 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403

List of suggested articles to edit/create
Work in progress. Please feel free to expand the list!

Artists' biographies to improve
Research, add content, citations; copy edit, format, etc.:


 * Joan Acker
 * Helena Almeida
 * Cecilia Alvarez - known for her oil paintings and murals depicting themes of feminism, poverty, and environmental degradation in the United States and Latin America. Her work is collected by the Seattle Art Museum
 * Miriam Beerman - an American painter and printmaker.
 * Joan Benson
 * Trudy Benson - an abstract artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
 * Bonnie Bronson (1940-1990) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * Barbara A. Caulfield
 * Amanda Coplin
 * Meg Cranston - an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer
 * Janice E. Cuny
 * Emily Inez Denny - a pioneer and painter who drew scenes from Seattle's early history
 * Geri Doran
 * Alice Henson Ernst
 * Madeline von Foerster - works with oil and egg tempera, similar to Flemish Renaissance artists. Her work tends to contain environmental themes
 * Parastou Forouhar - Iranian Installation artist
 * Amy Franceschini Expand. Visual and public artist and farmer
 * María Galindo – Expand. Bolivian anarcha-feminist, lesbian activist, and psychologist. Radio presenter and television host
 * Mariam Ghani – Expand. American artist of Afghan and Lebanese descent. Multi-media
 * Hilda Grossman - (Deutsch) Morris a sculptor of the Northwest School, working mainly in bronze
 * Angelina Gualdoni (born 1975, San Francisco, US) is an artist based in New York
 * MK Guth
 * Marcia Hafif - an American painter. She has exhibited monochrome paintings for over 50 years in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe
 * Sally Haley - credited for helping to expand the emerging art scene in Portland, Oregon during the middle of the century
 * Julie Heffernan - an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting
 * Mary Henry (artist) (1913-2009) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * Shirazeh Houshiary
 * Fay Jones (Seattle artist) (1936- ) at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * Maude Kerns - Book available at library event
 * Sarah Ladd
 * Olia Lialina - (born in Moscow) is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator
 * Barbara Corrado Pope
 * Sara Rahbar
 * Barbara Rossi - a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists. Recent exhibition at the New Museum
 * Aïda Ruilova
 * Marie Watt (1967- ) - a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Part Seneca, Watt has created work in many different media centered on contemporary Native American themes; at Hallie Ford NW Gallery Marie Watt.
 * Abby Whiteside
 * Myra Albert Wiggins
 * Caroline Woolard - Expand. Leader in the artist solidarity economy
 * Naomi Zack

Art historian biographies to improve

 * Gertrud Bing (1892–1964) was a scholar and Director of the Warburg Institute
 * Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic
 * Katherine McCook Knox known for her art criticism of a portrait by G. P. A. Healy of Abraham Lincoln as a commemorative stamp during the Lincoln Sesquicentennial in 1959
 * Mika Natif is an Israeli-born American scholar of art history specializing in art of the Islamic World, especially Mongol art. She is the author of Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art
 * Carol Strickland
 * Victoria Wyatt (born August 3, 1956) is an ethnographer and art historian specializing in Northwest Coast Native American art

Book articles
Research/provide content/citations, etc.:


 * Cézanne’s Quarry (New York: Pegasus Books, 2008)
 * The Blood of Lorraine (New York: Pegasus Books, 2010)
 * The Missing Italian Girl (New York: Pegasus Books, 2013)

Draft biographies
Research, add content and citations:


 * 1) Draft:Kate Ali - Eugene-based visual artist, add her work to List of Public Art in Eugene Oregon
 * 2) Draft:Judith R. Baskin (now at Judith R. Baskin)
 * 3) Draft:Ross Palmer Beecher (1957- ) [1 incoming link] - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 4) Draft:Sally Bush (now at Sally Bush) [see also: Asahel Bush] - Photographer mentioned vis-a-vis Imogen Cunningham
 * 5) Draft:Deborah Carver (now at Deborah A. Carver), former Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries)
 * 6) Draft:Holly Coulis (now at Holly Coulis), painter and co-founder of Gallery 106 Green in Brooklyn, NY
 * 7) Draft:Gwen Davidson (1951- ) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 8) Draft:Marita Dingus (1956- ) [2 incoming links] - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 9) Draft:Beka Economopoulos - Director of the art, activism, technology, and theory non-profit "Not An Alternative". She is also co-founder and director of The Natural History Museum
 * 10) Draft:Judith Poxson Fawkes - Judith Poxson Fawkes search
 * 11) Draft:Barbara Fealy
 * 12) Draft:Julia Fish
 * 13) Draft:Constance Edith Fowler (1907-1996) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 14) Draft:Helen Gatch [see Thomas Leigh Gatch] - Photographer mentioned vis-a-vis Imogen Cunningham
 * 15) Draft:Chido Govera - Farmer, campaigner, and educator based in Zimbabwe. The founder of The Future of Hope Foundation, she has promoted mushroom cultivation as a sustainable source of food and income in impoverished regions of the world
 * 16) Draft:Ruth Dennis Grover (1912-2003) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 17) Draft:Deana Haggag - Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD
 * 18) Draft:Rana Hamadeh - performance and visual artist from Lebanon based in the Netherlands.
 * 19) Draft:Victoria Haven - Victoria Haven search
 * 20) Draft:Johanna Hedva - contemporary artist working in LA, author of forthcoming Sick Woman Theory
 * 21) Draft:Norma Heyser (1993- ) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 22) Draft:Hallie Parrish Hinges
 * 23) Draft:Julia Christianson Hoffman (now at Julia Christiansen Hoffman)
 * 24) Draft:LaVerne Krause (now at LaVerne Krause)
 * 25) Draft:Cynthia Lahti - Cynthia Lahti search
 * 26) Draft:Susan Lowdermilk (now at Susan Lowdermilk)
 * 27) Draft:Claudia Maté - associated with post-internet art
 * 28) Draft:Abbie Miller - Abbie Miller search
 * 29) Draft:Lucinda Parker (1942- ) [1 incoming link]  - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 30) Draft:Eunice Parsons (1916- ) [2 incoming links] - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 31) Draft:Wendy Red Star (now at Wendy Red Star)
 * 32) Draft:Jolene Rickard - A Tuscarora artist, curator and visual historian at Cornell University, specializing in issues of indigeneity in a global context. Rickard co-curated two of the four permanent exhibitions for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
 * 33) Draft:Abigail Satinsky - Writer, grassroots organizer, and curator of socially-engaged art. Co-founder of InCubate and Threewalls. Author of the book Support Networks
 * 34) Draft:Heidi Schwegler (1967- ) - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 35) Draft:Susan Seubert (1970- ) [2 mentions] - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 36) Draft:Margery Hoffman Smith (now at Margery Hoffman Smith)
 * 37) Draft:Amanda Snyder now at Amanda Snyder [1 incoming link] - at Hallie Ford NW Gallery
 * 38) Draft:Barbara Tetenbaum - Barbara Tetenbaum search
 * 39) Draft:Lillian Polly Povey Thompson
 * 40) Draft:April Waters Oregon painter, series “Sheroes”
 * 41) Draft:Megan Williams (now at Megan Williams)
 * 42) Draft:Betsy Wolfston - Eugene-based visual artist, add her work to add her work to List of Public Art in Eugene Oregon

Other topics

 * Center for the Study of Women in Society
 * Articles on artworks by women
 * Feminist art
 * Women artists/Worklist
 * Oregon Arts Project
 * Oregon Arts Project/Visual Arts/Sculpture
 * Art+Feminism tasks
 * My Boyfriend Came Back from the War is a browser-based internet artwork created in 1996 by Russian artist Olia Lialina.
 * Lesbian Art Project (1977 – 1979) was a participatory art movement founded by Terry Wolverton and Arlene Raven at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles

Resources for editing

 * Art+Feminism resources
 * Gender gap resources
 * Writing about women
 * WikiProject Women artists
 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Beginner's Guide to Wikipedia
 * The Wikipedia Adventure
 * Editing Wikipedia (20 page .pdf brochure)
 * |Portland Event Information
 * National Museum of Women in the Arts, Archives, Contemporary Women Artists on the Web

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * 1-page cheatsheet
 * How to enable Visual Editor, WYSIWYG editing tool
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * Infobox template - person
 * Infobox template - artist
 * About the Sandbox
 * Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
 * Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
 * Verifying Reliable Sources


 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help

Outcomes
You may add this template to the talk page of any articles or drafts created: ArtAndFeminism2016 article

Articles improved
Alphabetical by last name where applicable


 * 1) Margarita Azurdia --
 * 2) Trudy Benson --
 * 3) Andrea Bowers --, , ,
 * 4) Claude Cahun --
 * 5) Meg Cranston --, , ,
 * 6) Geri Doran -- ,
 * 7) Alice Henson Ernst --
 * 8) Parastou Forouhar --
 * 9) Mariam Ghani --
 * 10) Angelina Gualdoni --
 * 11) MK Guth --
 * 12) Harmony Hammond --
 * 13) Fay Jones --
 * 14) Maude Kerns --
 * 15) François Leperlier -- ,
 * 16) Sara Rahbar --, ,
 * 17) The Nuclear Beauty Parlor --, ,
 * 18) Barbara Rossi --
 * 19) Alina Szapocznikow --
 * 20) Marie Watt --
 * 21) Caroline Woolard --

Articles created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Draft:Center for the Study of Women in Society → Center for the Study of Women in Society --
 * 2) Draft:Cézanne’s Quarry → Cézanne’s Quarry--
 * 3) Draft:Deborah Carver → Deborah A. Carver
 * 4) Draft:Judith R. Baskin →  Judith R. Baskin --
 * 5) Draft:Julia Christianson Hoffman → Julia Christiansen Hoffman--
 * 6) Draft:LaVerne Krause →LaVerne Krause --, , ,
 * 7) Draft:Megan Williams → Megan Williams --
 * 8) Draft:Ruth Mountaingrove → Ruth Mountaingrove -- ,
 * 9) Draft:Sally Bush → Sally Bush --
 * 10) Draft:Susan Lowdermilk → Susan Lowdermilk -- ,
 * 11)  Draft:Wendy Red Star → Wendy Red Star --

DRAFT

 * 1) Draft:Abbie Miller --
 * 2) Draft:Abigail Satinsky -- ,
 * 3) Draft:Amanda Snyder --
 * 4) Draft:April Waters --
 * 5) Draft:Barbara Fealy --
 * 6) Draft:Barbara Tetenbaum --.
 * 7) Draft:Beautify Earth --
 * 8) Draft:Beka Economopoulos --
 * 9) Draft:Betsy Wolfston --
 * 10) Draft:Chido Govera --
 * 11) Draft:Claudia Maté --
 * 12) Draft:Constance Edith Fowler --
 * 13) Draft:Cynthia Lahti --
 * 14) Draft:Deana Haggag --
 * 15) Draft:Eunice Parsons --
 * 16) Draft:Gwen Davidson --
 * 17) Draft:Hallie Parrish Hinges --
 * 18) Draft:Heidi Schwegler --
 * 19) Draft:Helen Gatch --
 * 20) Draft:Holly Coulis --, ,
 * 21) Draft:Iris Eichenberg --
 * 22) Draft:Johanna Hedva -- ,
 * 23) Draft:Jolene Rickard --
 * 24) Draft:Judith Poxson Fawkes --
 * 25) Draft:Julia Fish --
 * 26) Draft:Kartz Ucci -- ,
 * 27) Draft:Kate Ali --
 * 28) Draft:Kate Ericson -- ,
 * 29) Kathy O'Dell --
 * 30) Draft:Laura U. Marks -- ,
 * 31) Draft:Leonor Antunes --
 * 32) Polly Povey Thompson --
 * 33) Draft:Liz Kotz --, ,
 * 34) Draft:Lucinda Parker --
 * 35) Margery Hoffman Smith --
 * 36) Draft:Marita Dingus --
 * 37) Draft:Myra Mimlitsch-Gray -- ,
 * 38) Draft:Nancy Shaver -- ,
 * 39) Draft:Norma Heyser --
 * 40) Rana Hamadeh -- ,
 * 41) Draft:Rosalyn Deutsche -- ,
 * 42) Ross Palmer Beecher -- ,
 * 43) Draft:Ruth Dennis Grover -- ,
 * 44) Skuja Braden--
 * 45) Draft:Stacy Jo Scott -- ,
 * 46) Draft:Susan Seubert --
 * 47) The Blood of Lorraine --, ,
 * 48) The Missing Italian Girl --
 * 49) Draft:Victoria Haven -- ,

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