Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/ArtAndFeminism/LACMA 2015

Background


Wikipedia's gender trouble is well documented. In a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation.

In February 2014, Siân Evans (Art Libraries Society of North America's Women and Art Special Interest Group), Jacqueline Mabey (The office of failed projects), Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak, and Richard Knipel and Dorothy Howard (Metropolitan New York Library Council) of Wikimedia NYC, organized an ArtAndFeminism edit-athon at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. More than 30 satellite events were organized in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. The campaign attracted an estimated 600 participants, resulting in more than 100 new Wikipedia articles focused on women and the arts.

Following up on the success of last year's initiative, a constellation of Art + Feminism edit-a-thons will take place around the world on International Women's Day weekend, March 7-8, 2015. LACMA will host the official Los Angeles event, co-organized by the online magazine East of Borneo and the Women's Center for Creative Work, on Sunday, March 8.

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To-Do
''You are welcome to choose something from this list or work on anything you like. You may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women artists. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc. For more ideas, see the Art + Feminism tasks list and WikiProject: Women Artists. 'Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''

To create:
 * Eileen Abdul-Rashid (or Abdulrashid)p. 24
 * Lynn Aldrich
 * Tina Allen
 * Kathryn Andrews
 * Sara Kathryn Arledge
 * Florence Millner Arnold
 * Taylor Barrett
 * Phoebe Beasley
 * Julie Becker
 * Cindy Bernard
 * Ginny Bishton
 * Gloria Bohanon Obit on last pageher work, Roots, ca. 1970 heremention as assoc. dean of LACCBest source so far (OAC)
 * Jennifer Bornstein
 * Linda Frye Burnham
 * Connie Butler
 * Eugenia P. Butler
 * Carp (art organization)
 * Karen Carson
 * Nathaly Charria
 * Chicago Women's Graphics Collective
 * Yvonne Cole Meo
 * Claire Copley
 * Liz Craft
 * Sandra de la Loza
 * Lecia Dole-Recio
 * Double X (feminist art collective)
 * Mari Eastman
 * June Edmonds
 * Alicia Eler, Arts Writer.
 * Kirsten Everberg
 * Christina Fernandez (artist)
 * Lauri Firstenberg
 * Eve Fowler
 * Victoria Franklin
 * Jacqueline Frazier
 * Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess
 * Francesca Gabbiani
 * Jill Giegerich
 * Samara Golden
 * Hannah Greely
 * Katie Grinnan
 * June Harwood
 * Micol Hebron
 * Virginia Holt
 * Margaret Honda
 * Josine Ianco-Starrels
 * Leslie Ito
 * Suzanne Jackson
 * Kellie Jones
 * Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
 * Bettina Korek
 * Julie Lazar
 * Margo Leavin
 * Jane Livingston
 * Karen Lofgren
 * Elsa Longhauser
 * Bronwyn Lundberg
 * Shana Lutker
 * Manitoba Museum of Finds Art
 * Emily Mast
 * Kristine Mays
 * Barbara McCoullough
 * A. Moret Editor-in-Chief, Installation Magazine.
 * Catherine Murphy (artist)
 * Rosaline Myles
 * Margaret Nielsen
 * Taisha Paggett
 * Tira Palmquist
 * Jennifer Pastor
 * Susan Peterson
 * Ann Philbin
 * Sheila Pinkel
 * Patti Podesta
 * Shaun Regen
 * Beverly Robinson (1945-2002)
 * Alma Ruiz
 * Lezley Saar
 * Kim Schoenstadt
 * Gail Scott (under review)
 * Toni Scott
 * Maureen Selwood, animator, filmmaker, Guggenheim and Macdowell fellow
 * Susan Silton
 * Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
 * Allegra Fuller Snyder
 * Carol Stakenas
 * Coleen Sterritt
 * Martine Syms
 * The Current Sea, A Net Art Team.
 * Eleanor Tufts
 * Sophia Wallace
 * Megan Williams (artist)
 * Sarah Zucker
 * Alexandra Stepanoff
 * Erica Cho
 * Shizu Saldamando
 * Mariana Razo Wardwell
 * Amitis Motevalli
 * Jenny Lens
 * Pearl Hsiung

To improve:
 * Karen Boccalero
 * Betty Asher
 * Judie Bamber
 * Jennifer Bolande
 * Andrea Bowers
 * Nancy Buchanan
 * Jo Ann Callis
 * Tiffany Chung
 * Zackary Drucker
 * Chitra Ganesh
 * Liz Glynn
 * Shifra Goldman
 * Paula Harper
 * Karin Higa
 * Juliana Huxtable
 * Barbara Kasten
 * Olga Koumoundouros
 * Cherylene Lee
 * Leslie Labowitz-Starus
 * Elana Mann
 * Riko Mizuno
 * Helen Molesworth
 * Jennifer Moon
 * Ruby Neri / Reminisce
 * Rozsika Parker
 * Toni Press-Coffman
 * Monique Prieto
 * Barbara T. Smith
 * Elena Stonaker
 * Julie Tolentino
 * Pae White
 * Nancy Youdelman
 * Amalia Ulman
 * Nandipha Mntambo
 * Zwelethu_Mthethwa
 * View all stub-class articles in WikiProject: Women Artists

Outcomes

 * Sara Kathryn Arledge
 * Maria Bergson
 * Karen Boccalero
 * Eugenia P. Butler
 * Erica Cho
 * Tiffany Chung
 * Liz Craft
 * Sandra de la Loza
 * Dora De Larios
 * Lecia Dole-Recio
 * Elkpen
 * Christina Fernandez (artist)
 * Gynoids
 * Karin Higa
 * International Society of Copier Artists
 * Gladys Johnston
 * Laura Levine
 * Karen Lofgren
 * Greta Magnusson-Grossman
 * Emily Mast
 * Jennifer Moon
 * Catherine Murphy (artist)
 * Marisela Norte
 * Petal and Blosm
 * Susan Peterson
 * Ann Philbin
 * Sheila Pinkel
 * Adrian Piper
 * Deborah Poynton
 * Alma Ruiz
 * Shizu Saldamando
 * Carol Sauvion
 * Alexis Smith (artist)
 * Studio Watts Workshop
 * Francesca Sundsten
 * Martine Syms
 * Julie Tolentino
 * Amalia Ulman
 * Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
 * Women's Center for Creative Work (WCCW)

Resources
Please start here:
 * Eastofborneo.org/Wikipedia (Step-by-step instructions + links)

When in doubt:
 * Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
 * Notability Guidelines for Organizations
 * Conflict of Interest policy
 * Image Use Policy
 * Article Naming & Disambiguation