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Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon at Santa Monica College's Art Department (Room 119 & 214) focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators, and art workers of the African Diaspora on Friday, October 18th, 2024 from 12:00 PM-3 PM. A training session will be held at the beginning but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

Please bring your laptop so you can join the editing and bring a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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

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 13-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 SMC

The Art Department of Santa Monica College offers an extensive and very well-received program in Studio Art, Art History, and Design. The primary mission of the program is to prepare students for upper-division study at a four-year, two-year, university or art school and/or to earn an Associate in Arts degree. Secondary objectives include portfolio preparation for students seeking admission to the Arts and Entertainment Academy and other two-year vocational training programs.

Converge Vertex Exhibition Opening and BLT Photo Booth

Recognizing that Wikipedia is not the only platform that lacks information about the lives of Black artists, the BLT Photo Booth increases images of Black artists on Wikimedia Commons. To make notable artists that fall in the Wiki gaps more visible, BLT invites professional photographers to host a pop-up portrait studio at events and make that work open license for free use, edit and distribution.

A special pop-up photo studio will be hosted a few days before the Editathon!

Event: Converge Vertex Exhibition Opening and BLT Photo Booth
Date: Tuesday, October 15th
Time: 6pm-8pm PST
Location: Barrett Art Gallery, Performing Arts Center - Music Building, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Kearra Amaya Gopee
Kayla Richards
Maria Jerusha Staack

Editathon Event details

Date: Friday, October 18th, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Room 119 & 214, SMC Art Department, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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
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 edit-a-thon 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

Uploading photos

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important visual artists of the African Diaspora associated with SMC 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:

LIST TBD

Artists associated with Los Angeles

Tierney Malone
Tierney Malone
Born	Los Angeles
Occupation	visual artist

Nery Gabriel Lemus
Nery Gabriel Lemus
Born	-00T; Los Angeles
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design
Occupation	visual artist

Black Lunch Table
@ SMC Art Department
	Santa Monica College
When and Where
Date:	Friday, October 18th, 2024
Time:	12:00 PM PST- 3:00 PM PST
Address:	Room 119 & 214, SMC Art Department, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401;

Please refer to the artists listed here

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