UnforgettingLA is an ongoing series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons focused on "unforgetting" under-represented artists and other aspects of West Coast cultural history as considered from Los Angeles. For this project, the emphasis is placed primarily on contemporary visual art; but we're also interested in related fields—including architecture, design, education, film, music, and literature—as they intersect with the visual arts. We meet 3-4 times per year at local galleries, museums, and nonprofit art spaces to exchange knowledge and create/edit pages that will contribute to a richer and more diverse understanding of contemporary art as it has developed on the west coast.
UnforgettingLA is an intiative of the online contemporary art magazine East of Borneo.
Next Meetup edit
What: UnforgettingLA: Architecture & Design
Where: MAK Center for Art & Architecture, 835 N. Kings Road [ map ]
When: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 12 - 4pm
Details edit
Join us for our next UnforgettingLA edit-a-thon at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the historic Schindler House on Kings Road. This meetup will focus on architecture and design, with a special emphasis on the many overlooked contributions that women have made to these fields. It is inspired by last summer's campaign to retroactively acknowledge architect Denise Scott Brown for her work in the 1991 Pritzker Prize awarded to her partner, Robert Venturi; a campaign which, in turn, sparked an inspiring essay—Unforgetting Women Architects: From the Pritzker to Wikipedia—that argues for the importance of online histories in correcting these oversights.
To-Do edit
Please contribute your suggestions for pages that need creation or further development. You can add them directly to this page, or send them to us on Twitter at @eastofborneo, using the hashtag #UnforgettingLA.
Artists, Architects, Designers
- Rachel Allen (architect)[1]
- Suzana Antonakakis (b. 1935), Greek architect
- Hadley Arnold
- Marilyn Kay Austin[2]
- Judie Bamber[3]
- Barbara Bestor[4]
- Milka Bliznakov, Bulgarian architect and founder of IAWA[5]
- Jennifer Bolande[6][7]
- Andrea Bowers[8]
- Elizabeth Eaton Burton
- Regula Campbell
- Judith Chafee[9]
- Grace Clements (artist), Depression-era Works Progress Administration muralist and mosaicist[10] (dab. from Grace Clements)
- Annie Chu[11]
- Muriel Coleman
- Mary Corse[12][13]
- Elsie Crawford/Elsie Krummeck Crawford[14]
- Dana Cuff[15][16][17]
- Mary Lund Davis[18]
- Jocelyn Domela
- A. Jane Duncombe[19]
- Ray Eames
- Hana Elhebshi, Libyan architect and political activist[20]
- Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Italian designer-architect[21]
- Hsinming Fung/Hsin-Ming Fung[22]
- Ming Fung[23][24]
- Sarah Graham
- Greta Gray
- Margaret Griffin
- Judith Hendler[25]
- Craig Hodgetts
- Elinor Mead Howells/Elinor Howells (1837-1910), artist, architect, aristocrat[26]
- Gere Kavanaugh[27]
- Alice Kimm
- Maria Kipp[28]
- Olga Koumoundouros
- Heather Kurze
- Rita Lawrence
- Olga Lee
- Mia Lehrer[29]
- Brenda Levin[30]
- Joan Maffei
- Christine Magar (greenbuilding)
- Greta Magnusson-Grossman
- Elena Manferdini
- Robert Mangurian
- Phyllis Dearborn Massar[31]
- Elizabeth McCord[32]
- Esther McCoy
- Elizabeth Bauer Mock/Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler[33]
- Edla Muir[34]
- Alma Fairfax Murray/Alma Fairfax Murray Carlisle[35]
- Gertrud Natzler/Gertrud Amon Natzler[36][37]
- Barbara Neski
- Marilyn Neuhart[38]
- Edith Northman/Edith Mortensen Northman[39]
- Alice Kagawa Parrott[40]
- Helen Pashgian[41]
- Cecilia Puga
- Mary-Ann Ray[42]
- Eloise Roorbach
- Lori Ryker
- Afra Scarpa, Italian architect-designer
- Suzanne Sekey[43]
- Kay Sekimachi[44]
- Ada Mae Sharpless
- Vera Salomonsky Shipway
- Paulette Singley[45][46]
- Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (note: she's SF-based)[47]
- Jan Steward[48]
- Eva Sulzer[49]
- Deborah Sussman[50]
- Helena Syrkius/Helena Syrkus/Helena Syrkusowa/Helena Niemirska (1900-1982), Polish architect [51]
- Dorothy Thorpe[52]
- Silja Tillner
- Eva Vecsei (b. 1930), Canadian architect[53]
- Barbara Willis[54]
- Zelma Wilson[55][56]
- Marjorie Wintermute/Marjorie Wintermute Schiffeler
- Anne Zimmerman
- Emmy Zweybruck
Notable Individuals
Organizations
Exhibitions and Projects
Publications
Resources edit
Please add links to any online resources that might help in this effort:
- Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945-1980 Exhibitions List
- LACMA Reading Room, a selection of exhibition catalogue PDFs
- One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
- Southern California Architectural History blog authored by John Crosse
- East of Borneo online magazine and collaborative archive
- Online Archive of California
- Archives of American Art
- Pacific Coast Architecture Database
RSVP edit
Please add your name if you plan to attend:
- Stacey Allan StaceyEOB (talk) 20:09, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
- Bridget Kane bridgetkane (talk) 09:35, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
- Louise Sandhaus User:lulusand
Outcomes edit
- New articles
- Milka Bliznakov
- Grace Clements (artist)
- Muriel Coleman
- Dana Cuff
- Gere Kavanaugh
- Alice Kagawa Parrott
- Olga Koumoundouros
- Brenda Levin
- Louise Sandhaus
- Deborah Sussman
- Silja Tillner
- New editors
At least 12! Thank you all for joining us and contributing your knowledge and time. If you participated, please sign here so we can keep in touch. (Use the one-click "Sign your posts" instruction at the bottom of this editing window).
Next Meetup edit
Our next meetup will take place Sunday, March 9, 2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
I primarily share this information through East of Borneo's mailing list, so please join if you want to receive updates. You can also keep an eye on Twitter (@eastofborneo) and Facebook, as I tend to announce things there well in advance of sending the emails.