Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetAfrofuturist

The Afrofuturist Period Room wiki campaign is a virtual edit-a-thon running throughout February 2022.

The launch event will be livestreamed Saturday February 5, 12-2 PM Eastern. Livestream on YouTube and Facebook

Video chapters include:
 * Curator talks (at 0:10)
 * Eliza Myrie, Black Lunch Table (0:32)
 * Edit-a-thon (at 1:04)
 * Sherri Antoine, AfroCROWD (at 1:43)

We'll have a follow-up event and showcase of work done over this month on February 27, 2 PM Eastern.

It focuses on as a particularly data-rich and intertextual exhibition that brings together historical, modern and contemporary African diaspora art and history, to be further developed as community crowdsourced resources on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art are hosting, as well as bringing together as partners the wiki groups AfroCROWD, Black Lunch Table, and Wikimedia New York City. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was also instrumental in curating the exhibition, as well as in the broader program of NYC edit-a-thons, and the Afrofuturist Teen Advisory Council established by both cultural institutions will be active in furthering the project going forward.


 * Event page from the Met
 * Join our Dashboard campaign here or by clicking the blue sign up link.
 * See this page for more information and instructions on the Wikimedia NYC Discord server

Met Museum pages

 * Overview - Describes the project with roots in the homes of Seneca Village in Central Park, and the philosophy of creating this period room.
 * Visiting Guide - Specific breakdown of each part of the period room, including objects.
 * Exhibition Objects - Image grid and description of all accessioned objects in the room.

Art + Artists tasklist
General topics:
 * Before Yesterday We Could Fly
 * Reviews: Artforum, Artnet, Decor, Forbes, Gothamist, Hyperallergic, New Yorker, New York Times, Vogue
 * Afrofuturism
 * Afrofuturism
 * Afrofuturism + List of Afrofuturist films
 * Period room
 * Sources:Period Rooms at The Met, Aynsley, 2006, Fisher and Miller, 2021
 * Previous exhibition:  of Wangechi Mutu (The Facade Commission), Kerry James Marshall, Mastry

Artists in the exhibition:
 * Thomas Commeraw‎ - created stub article for Commeraw --Wil540 art (talk) 19:37, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Zizipho Poswa Started a draft for this article Rgm38 (talk) 18:48, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Roberto Lugo
 * Ini Archibong
 * Tourmaline
 * Jenn Nkiru
 * Njideka Akunyili Crosby
 * Fabiola Jean-Louis
 * Lorna Simpson
 * Henry Taylor
 * Willie Cole
 * William H. Johnson
 * Series: Jitterbugs
 * Lorna Simpson
 * Henry Taylor
 * Willie Cole
 * William H. Johnson
 * Series: Jitterbugs
 * Series: Jitterbugs


 * Elizabeth Catlett
 * Series: The Negro Woman


 * Magdalene Odundo

History + Culture tasklist
General topics:
 * Seneca Village
 * WikiProject New York City/Monthly collaboration


 * Flying Africans
 * Andrea Motley Crabtree -
 * Nkisi
 * Catholic Church in Kongo
 * Recade
 * Ezili Dantor
 * Imbizo
 * Beadwork
 * Hearth
 * Throne

Books on display:
 * Ball, Alverne. Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
 * Black Futures. United Kingdom: One World, 2020.
 * Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012.
 * Butler, Octavia E. Patternmaster. Open Road Media, 2012.
 * Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Water Dancer: A Novel. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 2019.
 * Commander, Michelle D. Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2017.
 * Commander, Michelle D. Avidly Reads Passages. United States: NYU Press, 2021.
 * Delany, Martin R. Blake; Or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition. N.p.: Harvard University Press, 2017.
 * Delany, Samuel R. Empire Star. United States: Ace Books, 1966.
 * Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.
 * Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. N.p.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
 * Glover, Eric A. Black Star. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
 * Greene, Sanford, David Walker, and Chuck Brown. Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business. United States: Image Comics, 2019.
 * Greene, Sanford, David Walker, and Chuck Brown. Bitter Root Vol. 2: Rage and Redemption. United States: Image Comics, 2020.
 * Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: the Picture Book. United States: Random House Children's Books, 2015.
 * Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. United States: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
 * Jemisin, Nora K. The City We Became: A Novel. Vol. 1. Hachette UK, 2020.
 * Kendi, Ibram X., and Keisha N. Blain. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019. Random House, 2021.
 * "Lion Man" by Orrin C. Evans of All-Negro Comics, 1947. Issue #1
 * Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020.
 * Lynch, Nigel., Clarke, Matthew. Hardears. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
 * Marshall, Paule, and Michelle Shay. Praisesong for the Widow. London: Virago, 1983.
 * Morrison, Toni. Beloved. United Kingdom: Vintage, 2007.
 * Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu. Indaba, my children. United States: Grove Press, 1999.
 * Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
 * Okorafor, Nnedi. After the Rain. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
 * Phillips, Rasheedah. Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice. United States: Afrofuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, 2015.
 * Thatcher, Virginia Sarah. The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language. United States: Consolidated Book Pub., 1971.
 * The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition. United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.
 * Vizetelly, Frank H., and Charles Earle Funk. Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge Newly Revised, VI, Unicorn Press, 1948.
 * Vizetelly, Frank H., and Charles Earle Funk. Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge Newly Revised, XXII, Unicorn Press, 1948.

Knowledge graph

 * Overall knowledge graph of the period room - https://w.wiki/4n43
 * Knowledge graph showing works and creators - https://w.wiki/4fhK

Works in the period room
&sum; 28 items.

Artists with works in the period room
&sum; 20 items.

Video chapters
Segments of the Met video, with direct links into the video.

Youtube video: Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Virtual Opening

New articles

 * Before Yesterday We Could Fly
 * Yinka Ilori (from previous Articles for Creation)
 * Zizipho Poswa
 * Thomas Commeraw
 * Flying Africans
 * Period room
 * Letter 47 (Seneca)

New categories

 * w:Category:African-American ceramists
 * w:Category:African-American potters

Improved articles

 * Afrofuturism
 * Seneca Village
 * Tourmaline (activist)
 * Henry Taylor (artist)
 * Jenn Nkiru
 * Roberto Lugo
 * Ini Archibong
 * Nnedi Okorafor (probably written independently)
 * Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Sunday Feb 27: End-of-Month Zoom Meetup
Time: Feb 27, 2022 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) We'll review the, share the articles we worked on this month, and spend some casual social time learning and editing articles together.

Participants
See this page for more information and instructions on the Wikimedia NYC Discord server

Sign up here with a ~ to express interest in participating in February 2022:
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 * TemboUngwe (talk) 18:02, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Wil540 art (talk) 21:30, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
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