Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/MiA

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an online edit-a-thon with The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum, and The Minnesota Museum of American Art. We will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black visual artists. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required.

= About Black Lunch Table =

[http://blacklunchtable.com/ Black Lunch Table (BLT)] is a nonprofit organization and sixteen-year ongoing collaboration. BLT’s primary aim has been the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues.

Black Lunch Table Wikimedians mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. In the field of mainstream contemporary art, Black artists are still marginalized within our field.

Wikipedia estimates that 77% of their editors are white and 91% of their editors are men. Our work shifts this demographic and empowers people to write their own history. Our sessions and events, including BLT Photobooth and edit-a-thons, equip new editors with the skills and resources to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles and encourages existing editors to focus on Wikipedia knowledge gaps.

= About Minneapolis Institute of Art =

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is an art museum in Minneapolis, MN. With permanent collection holdings totaling more than 90,000 objects, the Institute strives to inspire and enrich the local and international community through the power and possibility of art.

https://new.artsmia.org/

= About Walker Art Center =

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, together with the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and the Cowles Conservatory, it has an annual attendance of around 700,000 visitors. The museum's permanent collection includes over 13,000 modern and contemporary art pieces including books, costumes, drawings, media works, paintings, photography, prints, and sculpture.

https://walkerart.org/

= About The Weisman Art Museum =

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The museum was founded in 1934 and is named in honor of art collector Frederick R. Weisman. Originally based in Northrop Auditorium, it moved into its current building (designed by Frank Gehry) in 1993. Widely known as a "modern art museum," the 25,000+ image collection has large collections of Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer, Charles Biederman, Native American Mimbres pottery, and traditional Korean furniture.

https://wam.umn.edu/

= About The Minnesota Museum of American Art =

The Minnesota Museum of American Art (MMAA), founded as the St. Paul School of Fine Arts in 1894, is an American art museum with offices in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[1] The museum has been housed in a variety of St. Paul locations throughout its history, including the Jemne Building, Landmark Center, and through January 2009, the West Publishing Company.

https://mmaa.org/

Event details and Agenda

Date: Saturday, February 6, 2021

Time: 12:30-3:30pm CST

Location:online

Event Agenda:

:*Presentation, follow along or review, [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L1TAfoQAgnbOiXL7TQt75jzZrxe3S2igBax-0nNZ7sk/edit?usp=sharing/ Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation]

:*Editing time

:*Goals:

::-Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia)

::-Create user page with at least one sentence

::-Signin to Wikipedia edit-a-thon meetup page

::-Make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page

Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators,the curious...

What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!

Hashtag: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLunchTable #BlackLunchTable]

Etherpad:[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BlackLunchTable-Apr BlackLunchTable] - Keep track of live editing during our session

Resources and How-to's

Uploading photos

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art/Image_guide Wiki Image Guide]
[https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/How-to-find-free-images.pdf Where to find them.]
[https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Adding-images-to-Wikimedia-Commons-and-Wikipedia_-dos-and-donts.pdf Dos and Donts]
[https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/How-to-Ask-for-Image-Donations.pdf Asking an artist for images.]