Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts

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Founded
2006.04.21 by Ham.

Scope
The scope of this project covers all articles relating to the fine arts and performing arts.

Goals

 * 1) Fostering an active and interdisciplinary arts community on Wikipedia. Currently WikiProjects related to the arts suffer from long periods of inactivity, so what is needed is a single Wikiproject bringing together users of differing specialities, in the mould of the successful Science WikiProject. Contributors interested in the arts are vastly outnumbered by pop or geek culture experts as it is, so it is better to co-ordinate the efforts of the former group as much as possible than to segregate them into insular and unsuccessful WikiProjects on their particular topic of interest.
 * 2) Maintaining the Arts Wikiportal, one of the most prominent links on the Main Page, and its subportals.
 * 3) Starting an arts collaboration of the week. This will only go ahead when a sufficient number of participants have expressed their support for a weekly collaboration to be effective.

Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject include: ]]
 * Aesthetics task force
 * Architecture
 * Dance
 * Ballet
 * Films
 * Literature
 * Novels
 * Poetry
 * Magic
 * Circus
 * Music
 * Albums
 * Classical music
 * Composers
 * Contemporary music
 * Guitarists
 * Musicians
 * Opera
 * Television
 * Theatre
 * Musical Theatre
 * New York City/Theatre
 * Visual arts
 * Comics
 * Contemporary art
 * History of photography
 * Sculpture
 * [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Symbolism and Art Nouveau|Symbolism and Art Nouveau
 * Textile arts
 * Public art
 * Women artists (also a subproject of Biography)

See WikiProject_Council/Directory/Culture for an up-to-date list.

Portals
Help with the upkeep of these Portals would be much appreciated:
 * Arts
 * Architecture
 * Film
 * Literature
 * Poetry
 * Music
 * Opera
 * Theatre
 * Visual arts
 * Anime and Manga
 * Comics

  "Art means to dare — and to have been right."

Ned Rorem

Similar Wikiprojects

 * Culture WikiProject
 * Science WikiProject

Action Items
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of arts

Participation
To join, add your name to the list of participants.

Wikipedia Resources

 * Category:Architecture
 * Category:Dance
 * Category:Film
 * Category:Literature
 * Category:Magic
 * Category:Music
 * Category:Novels
 * Category:Opera
 * Category:Performing arts
 * Category:Poetry
 * Category:Public art
 * Category:Television
 * Category:Theatre
 * Category:Visual arts