Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/REAL SYMPOSIUM 2019

2019 REAL SYMPOSIUM
@ Vanderbilt University
w/ Black Lunch Table
	Vanderbilt University
When and Where
Date:	Saturday, March 23, 2019
Time:	11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT
Address:	Vanderbilt University ; The Student Life Center;

For info on our March 23 edit-a-thon in Trinidad, please click here.

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon focusing on visual artists of the African Diaspora from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at Vanderbilt University's Student Life Center. A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Bring your laptop and bring a friend. The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) Wikimedia edit-a-thon at 2019 REAL Symposium will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to visual artists of the African Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

A photographer will be on hand to take images for Wiki Commons!

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.

About The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT), an official Wikimedia Movement Affiliate, 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.

More about BLT here.

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About the 2019 REAL Symposium

Nashville, like many other large metropolitan cities, has begun the process that Grantmakers in the Arts has identified as the most pressing issue in arts leadership in the United States: building racial equity in our cultural institutions and arts organizations, so creative and cultural expression can become a form of civic engagement for all.

Since 2015, Vanderbilt University’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Pubic Policy has partnered with the Metro Arts/Nashville’s Office of Arts & Culture (REAL) Program to develop insight into how institutional practices around arts programming, artists development, and funding and hiring processes can advance racial equity in our community.

Curb Center and Metro Arts believes it is time to broaden the conversation through a national symposium, convening arts policy leaders, arts administrators, cultural equity organizations, individual artists, and grantmakers to discuss challenges and share best practices as we work to build more equitable practices into arts institutions at all levels.

Info on the symposium is here.

Event details

Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019
Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT
Location: Vanderbilt University
Student Life Center
310 25th Ave South
Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, librarians, archivists, 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 #realsymposium
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 editathon 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

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Possible articles to edit

Nashville-affiliated visual artists of the African diaspora and related

Although our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, you are welcomed to edit whatever you want. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Visual artists of the African diaspora in Permanent Collection at Fisk

Black Lunch Table in Tennessee task query

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This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
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Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Aaron Douglas	male	painter	Topeka
Alicia Henry	female	visual artist educator	Illinois	Nashville
Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu	male	painter	Onitsha
Bessie Harvey	female	artist	Dallas	Alcoa Tennessee
Claude Clark	male	painter	Rockingham	California
Frank Stewart (photographer)	male	photographer	Nashville
Gerard Sekoto	male	painter	Botshabelo
Hale Woodruff	male	painter visual artist	Cairo	Chicago Nashville Indianapolis Paris New York City
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi	male	painter diplomat	Omdurman
James A. Porter	male	art historian historian painter	Baltimore
Juan Logan	male	sculptor	Nashville
Kerry G. Johnson	male	caricaturist graphic designer artist	Nashville	Columbia
Malvin Gray Johnson	male	painter	Greensboro
María Magdalena Campos Pons	female	painter curator visual artist	Matanzas	Matanzas Province Boston Nashville
Romare Bearden	male	writer artist painter	Charlotte	New York City
Terry Adkins	male	artist sculptor video artist photographer performance artist musician	Washington, D.C.	Philadelphia
William Edmondson	male	painter	Nashville
William H. Johnson	male	painter	Florence

End of auto-generated list.

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References

External links

The Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

Fishantena (talk) 02:40, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Heathart (talk) 19:01, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

CatonMA2 (talk) 18:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sushiwolf (talk) 17:06, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Emeadows06 (talk) 17:06, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

CourtneyAJ (talk) 17:44, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Carwil (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Noughts (talk) 01:24, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Noughts (talk) 23:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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