Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/meetup SMC 2025

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 Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

[http://www.blacklunchtable.com Black Lunch Table (BLT)] is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine ({{User0|Fishantena}}) and Heather Hart ({{User0|Heathart}}) 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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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.

• Date: Monday, April 21, 2025
• Time: 5 pm
• Location: Room 119, 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: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLunchTable #BlackLunchTable]
• Etherpad: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BlackLunchTable-Apr BlackLunchTable] - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L1TAfoQAgnbOiXL7TQt75jzZrxe3S2igBax-0nNZ7sk/edit?usp=sharing/ Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation]

• 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

• [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.]

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: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BlackLunchTable-Apr BlackLunchTable] - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
•   {{InfoNeeded}} 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:

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• LIST TBD

=Artists associated with Los Angeles=

Please refer to the artists listed [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQzkwSIgdjEOICpIZPmcjQeMSui83gtHF3mW1Y6Z3InDzhMlKpnH32xPvXMcd7duewRVP8pqpjXnNSA/pubhtml here]

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