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Black Lunch Table
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
When and Where
Date:Saturday, May 17, 2015
Time:1:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Address:144 W. 125th Street
New York, NY
Wikipedia editing

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host its first edit-a-thon on Sunday May 17, 2015 from 1-6pm. Join us, the Studio Museum in Harlem staff, and folks from the local Harlem community in the museum's atrium (just inside the museum doors) for an afternoon of social Wikipedia editing.

BLT at the Studio Museum in Harlem will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black artists with first person accounts, and research materials. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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. We will have library resources and a list of suggested topics on hand.

Description edit

This inaugural Black Lunch Table-hosted Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon parallels themes present in Samuel Levi Jones’ Unbound exhibition, currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem. This artists' project similarly explores archives of knowledge revealed or obscured by authoritarian systems, and is a response to the omission of so many black artists from larger art historical narratives and from studies of vernacular production.

Historical information edit

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart 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.

Location history edit

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.

Details edit

WHEN: Sunday, May 17, from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. Come when you can, stay as long as you would like.

WHERE: Studio Museum in Harlem atrium & courtyard spaces.

  • The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, between Lenox Avenue (Malcolm X Boulevard) and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard (7th Avenue), New York, New York 10027 map
  • Subway:  ​  to 125th Street
  • Bus: M7, M60 SBS, M100, M102, Bx15 buses

WHO: Artists, historians, students, teachers, curators, Sunday afternoon strollers...

  • 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; we will also pull related materials from the Studio Museum Archives)

WHAT TO BRING: A laptop. We'll help you access the museum's wireless network.

WILL THERE BE FOOD? Yes! We'll have snacks for participants.

Etherpad - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on

Afrocrowd presentation and useful links edit

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Le_tnFU4LF74I0d65twtp8K1pUj3S8jjup3m-6O_ai0/edit?usp=sharing

Tips on Adding Images or Photos edit

Tutorials here: On Uploading Images (a good general overview); Image Use Policy (on rights, licenses, is it ok to use the image); Picture Tutorial (on the technical details of getting your image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good).

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! Please add a name if you know someone of note who needs a page. edit

See also: List of African-American visual artists

African American Art Research Resources edit

Wikipedia Help edit

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