Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Studio Museum 2018

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Black Lunch Table
with Studio Museum @ Schomburg

NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Schomburg Center
When and Where
Date:	Saturday, September 19, 2018
Time:	2:30 pm – TBD ET
Address:	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd) New York, NY, 10037

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Studying an interesting problem

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented women visual artists of the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora from 2:30 pm – TBD on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd), New York, NY, 10037. A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Photographer Andrea Cauthen will be taking free portraits for Wikimedia Commons in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop and a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hosted by Studio Museum in Harlem will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women visual artists from the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 10 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

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About the Schomburg Center

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library is generally recognized as the world’s leading research library devoted exclusively to documenting the history and cultural development of peoples of African descent worldwide. From its founding in 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, the Center has amassed vast collections of over 10 million items. More here.

About the Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.

More here.

About photographer, Andrea Cauthen

Andrea Cauthen is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary visual artist and photographer based in New York City whose work explores issues of home, ancestry, family and belonging. Andrea combines her years of color + print design for the fashion industry, and visual arts to experiment with silkscreen, color development, digital art, collage, illustration and photography in her artistic practice. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, National Geographic, Riddim Magazine, ARC Magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, and many others. She recently has contributed as a photographer to MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora co-edited by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu.

More here.

Event details

• Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018
• Time: 2:30 pm – TBD
• Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd), New York, NY, 10037
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
  • Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
  • Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
• What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
• Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable #studiomuseum #schomburg
• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

• Presentation / overview
• Editing time
• Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
• For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page
• Can't make it and want to know where to start? Click here.

Uploading photos

• Wiki Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
•   denotes Infobox is needed

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

• Suggested Name Here
• Andrea Cauthen
• Andrea Chung
• Aisha Tandiwe Bell
• Elia Alba
• Roshini Kempadoo
• Raquel Paiewonsky
• Ada Balcacer
• Rosalba Hernández
• Shervone Neckles
• Joy Gregory
• Elsa Nuñez
• Tiffany Smith (artist)
• Maren Hassinger

Afro-caribbean women artists

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

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This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Ana Mendieta	female	performance artist artist painter visual artist land artist photographer	Havana	Havana
Belkis Ayón	female	lithographer painter printmaker	Havana	Havana
Busejé Bailey	female	visual artist teacher	Jamaica	Halifax Toronto
Camille Turner	female	performance artist curator teacher	Kingston	Toronto
Celeste Woss y Gil	female	painter	Santo Domingo
Clara Ledesma	female	painter	Santiago de los Caballeros
Dawn Scott	female	visual artist designer	Mandeville	Jamaica
Denyse Thomasos	female	painter	Port of Spain
Dionne Simpson	female	visual artist	Jamaica	Toronto
Dominique Fontaine	female	curator	Port-au-Prince	Montreal
Dorothy Henriques-Wells	female	visual artist	Jamaica Saint Andrew	Miami Toronto Washington, D.C.
Ebony G.Patterson	female	visual artist	Kingston
Edra Soto	female	visual artist	Puerto Rico	Chicago
Elsa Núñez	female	painter	Santo Domingo
Firelei Baez	female	visual artist	Santiago de los Caballeros	New York City
Gwendolyn Knight	female	sculptor	Bridgetown
Iliana Emilia García	female	visual artist	Santo Domingo
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan	female	visual artist	Saint Andrew	Maraval
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow	female	performance artist visual artist	Manchester Parish Jamaica	Queens
Joiri Minaya	female	visual artist performance artist		New York City Dominican Republic Belgium
Juana Valdes	female	visual artist	Cabañas
Kara Springer	female	industrial designer visual artist	Bridgetown	Toronto Detroit
Margaret Rose Vendryes	female	visual artist academic curator	Jamaica Kingston	Queens
María Magdalena Campos Pons	female	painter curator	Matanzas	Matanzas Province Boston
Marlene Lewis-Weinberger	female	visual artist art director multimedia artist	Kingston
Michèle Pearson Clarke	female	writer filmmaker	Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago Toronto
Nicole Awai	female	visual artist media artist	Port of Spain	Austin Brooklyn
Rosalba Hernández	female			Santo Domingo
Sandra Brewster	female	visual artist art education community organizer multimedia artist	Toronto	Pickering Port of Spain St. Norbert, Winnipeg Cape Town
Scherezade García	female	visual artist	Santo Domingo
Shoshanna Weinberger	female	visual artist	Kingston
Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy	female	visual artist	Haiti

End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

Where to start...

Add an Infobox! Adding images! Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different! Follow instructions to upload your images here... Create or update Wikidata! Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Go to Wikidata Read Wikidata's Introduction! Search for the person or subject If none exists, you can 'Create a new item' Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal. To add a field, click 'Add Statement' Wikidata + AuthorityControl Create or update Authority Control! Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org) Go to VIAF.org Search for person (last name, first name) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories Refresh Wikipedia page Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes

Extended content

Alphabetical by first letter denotes Infobox added  Pages improved Elsa Núñez Blockade of Germany National Solar Observatory Turbofan Tayari Jones Manhattan Waterfront Greenway Elia Alba Sandra Brewster Nicole Awai History of New York City (1898–1945) Lorraine O'Grady Kara Springer Inspiration Point - Hudson River Greenway Marlon Riggs María Magdalena Campos Pons Passet Electric bicycle Airbreathing jet engine Jet engine Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) Pages created Sandbox articles started Wikidata items improved St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Wikidata items created see: 2018-09 Black Lunch Table at Schomburg Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

Metrics

Extended content
Outreach Dashboard Articles Created: 0 Articles Edited: 21 Total Edits: 74 Editors: 12 Words Added: 945 Article Views: Commons Uploads: 32

References

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Jim.henderson (talk) 20:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Durham919 (talk) 19:47, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Feverfewer (talk) 19:47, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Shanluan (talk) 19:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Heathart (talk) 19:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Mald81931023 (talk) 19:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Juliajusto8 (talk) 19:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Spfitzpa (talk) 19:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Tonitubman (talk) 19:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Doubledoble (talk) 19:53, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Sumie_Tamura (talk) 19:55, 19 September 2018 (UTC)