Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetAfrofuturist

The exhibit includes this stoneware jar (c. 1797-1819) by Thomas Commeraw, a free Black potter. It bears the mark of his Corlears Hook studio in Lower Manhattan

The Afrofuturist Period Room wiki campaign is a virtual edit-a-thon running throughout February 2022.

The launch event will be livestreamed Saturday February 5, 12-2 PM Eastern. Livestream on YouTube and Facebook

Video chapters include:

• Curator talks (at 0:10)
• Eliza Myrie, Black Lunch Table (0:32)
• Edit-a-thon (at 1:04)
• Sherri Antoine, AfroCROWD (at 1:43)

We'll have a follow-up event and showcase of work done over this month on February 27, 2 PM Eastern.

It focuses on Before Yesterday We Could Fly (Q109674835) as a particularly data-rich and intertextual exhibition that brings together historical, modern and contemporary African diaspora art and history, to be further developed as community crowdsourced resources on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art are hosting, as well as bringing together as partners the wiki groups AfroCROWD, Black Lunch Table, and Wikimedia New York City. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was also instrumental in curating the exhibition, as well as in the broader program of NYC edit-a-thons, and the Afrofuturist Teen Advisory Council established by both cultural institutions will be active in furthering the project going forward.

• Event page from the Met
• Join our Dashboard campaign here or by clicking the blue sign up link.
• See this page for more information and instructions on the Wikimedia NYC Discord server
  

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Met Museum pages

• Overview - Describes the project with roots in the homes of Seneca Village in Central Park, and the philosophy of creating this period room.
• Visiting Guide - Specific breakdown of each part of the period room, including objects.
• Exhibition Objects - Image grid and description of all accessioned objects in the room.

Art + Artists tasklist

General topics:

• Before Yesterday We Could Fly
  • Reviews: Artforum, Artnet, Decor, Forbes, Gothamist, Hyperallergic, New Yorker, New York Times, Vogue
• Afrofuturism
  • Afrofuturism#Art
  • Afrofuturism#In film + List of Afrofuturist films
• Period room
  • Sources:Period Rooms at The Met, Aynsley, 2006, Fisher and Miller, 2021
• Previous exhibition: of Wangechi Mutu (The Facade Commission), Kerry James Marshall, Mastry

Artists in the exhibition:

• Thomas Commeraw‎ - created stub article for Commeraw --Wil540 art (talk) 19:37, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
• Cyrus Kabiru
• Zizipho Poswa Started a draft for this article Rgm38 (talk) 18:48, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
• Yinka Ilori
• Roberto Lugo
• Ini Archibong
• Tourmaline
• Jenn Nkiru
• Njideka Akunyili Crosby
• Fabiola Jean-Louis
• Lorna Simpson
• Henry Taylor
• Willie Cole
• William H. Johnson

• Series: Jitterbugs

• Elizabeth Catlett

• Series: The Negro Woman

• Magdalene Odundo

History + Culture tasklist

General topics:

• Seneca Village

• Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/Monthly collaboration

• Flying Africans
• Andrea Motley Crabtree - [1] [2]
• Nkisi
• Catholic Church in Kongo
• Recade
• Ezili Dantor
• Imbizo
• Beadwork#African beadwork
• Hearth
• Throne#Africa

Books on display:

• Ball, Alverne. Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
• Black Futures. United Kingdom: One World, 2020.
• Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012.
• Butler, Octavia E. Patternmaster. Open Road Media, 2012.
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Water Dancer: A Novel. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 2019.
• Commander, Michelle D. Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Commander, Michelle D. Avidly Reads Passages. United States: NYU Press, 2021.
• Delany, Martin R. Blake; Or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition. N.p.: Harvard University Press, 2017.
• Delany, Samuel R. Empire Star. United States: Ace Books, 1966.
• Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.
• Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. N.p.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
• Glover, Eric A. Black Star. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
• Greene, Sanford, David Walker, and Chuck Brown. Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business. United States: Image Comics, 2019.
• Greene, Sanford, David Walker, and Chuck Brown. Bitter Root Vol. 2: Rage and Redemption. United States: Image Comics, 2020.
• Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: the Picture Book. United States: Random House Children's Books, 2015.
• Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. United States: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
• Jemisin, Nora K. The City We Became: A Novel. Vol. 1. Hachette UK, 2020.
• Kendi, Ibram X., and Keisha N. Blain. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019. Random House, 2021.
• "Lion Man" by Orrin C. Evans of All-Negro Comics, 1947. Issue #1
• Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020.
• Lynch, Nigel., Clarke, Matthew. Hardears. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
• Marshall, Paule, and Michelle Shay. Praisesong for the Widow. London: Virago, 1983.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. United Kingdom: Vintage, 2007.
• Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu. Indaba, my children. United States: Grove Press, 1999.
• Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
• Okorafor, Nnedi. After the Rain. United States: ABRAMS, 2021.
• Phillips, Rasheedah. Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice. United States: Afrofuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, 2015.
• Thatcher, Virginia Sarah. The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language. United States: Consolidated Book Pub., 1971.
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition. United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.
• Vizetelly, Frank H., and Charles Earle Funk. Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge Newly Revised, VI, Unicorn Press, 1948.
• Vizetelly, Frank H., and Charles Earle Funk. Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge Newly Revised, XXII, Unicorn Press, 1948.

Knowledge graph

• Overall knowledge graph of the period room - https://w.wiki/4n43
• Knowledge graph showing works and creators - https://w.wiki/4fhK

Reports

Works in the period room

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This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

label	description	instance of	creator	inception	main subject	depicts	The Met object ID	image
In Sojourner Truth I fought for the Rights of Women as well as Negroes	print by Elizabeth Catlett (MET, 1999.529.30)	print	Elizabeth Catlett	1947		woman Sojourner Truth	491319
Shine	sculpture by Willie Cole (MET, 2008.259)	sculpture	Willie Cole	2007		human head shoe	495572
Earth & Sky	collage by Lorna Simpson (MET, 2019.471)	collage	Lorna Simpson	2018			839361
Jitterbugs II	print by William Henry Johnson (MET, 1999.529.79)	print	William H. Johnson	1941		dance man woman	491354
Jar	jar by Thomas W. Commeraw (MET, 18.95.13)	jar	Thomas Commeraw	18th century			4501
OUT / SIDE OF TIME	2021 film directed by Jenn Nkiru	film	Jenn Nkiru				854667
Thriving and Potential, Displaced (Again and Again and...)	2021 artwork	collage wallpaper	Njideka Akunyili Crosby	2021			853342
Digable Underground	ceramic artwork	urn vase	Roberto Lugo	2021		Harriet Tubman Erykah Badu	847018
Imbizo Table	table by Chuma Maweni (MET, 2021.280a, b)	table	Chuma Maweni				846749
Imbizo Stool	stool by Chuma Maweni (MET, 2021.281)	stool	Chuma Maweni				846750
Imbizo Stool	stool by Chuma Maweni (MET, 2021.279)	stool	Chuma Maweni				846752
Vernus 3	chandelier by Ini Archibong (MET, 2021.253.1a, b–.9a–j)	chandelier light fixture		2020			846762
Mollo Oa Leifo – Mme (“fire in the hearth – Mother”)	chair by Atang Tshikare (MET, 2021.273)	chair		2021			846916
Mollo Oa Leifo – Ngoanana (“fire in the hearth – Girl”)	chair by Atang Tshikare (MET, 2021.274)	chair		2021			846917
Mido Chair	chair by Jomo Tariku (MET, 2021.257)	chair	Jomo Tariku	2021			846920
Miyale Ya Blue	sculpture by Cyrus Kabiru (MET, 2021.282)	sculpture	Cyrus Kabiru	2020			846921
Sandi Conical Vase	vase by Andile Dyalvane (MET, 2021.275)	vase	Andile Dyalvane	2020			846964
Handpinched Vase	vase by Zizipho Poswa (MET, 2021.276)	vase	Zizipho Poswa	2020			846965
Handpinched Vase	vase by Zizipho Poswa (MET, 2021.277)	vase	Zizipho Poswa	2020			846966
Fat conical vase	vase by Zizipho Poswa (MET, 2021.278)	vase	Zizipho Poswa	2020			846967
Iya Ati Omo	chair by Yinka Ilori (MET, 2021.270)	chair	Yinka Ilori	2016			849304
Summer Azure	photograph by Tourmaline (MET, 2021.271)	photograph	Tourmaline	2020			851508
Morning Cloak	photograph by Tourmaline (MET, 2021.272)	photograph	Tourmaline	2020			851509
Sol	drawing by Xul Solar (MET, 2021.263.1)	drawing	Xul Asaltacunas				851784
Solo mando	drawing by Xul Solar (MET, 2021.263.2)	drawing	Xul Asaltacunas				851785
Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first	painting by Henry Taylor (MET, 2018.4)	painting	Henry Taylor	2017	Andrea Motley Crabtree	Andrea Motley Crabtree	769369
Hair Comb	comb by India Rubber Comb Company (MET, 2000.561)	comb		1851			16809
Atlas Chair	chair by Ini Archibong (MET, 2021.392)	chair	Ini Archibong	21st century			846758

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∑ 28 items.

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Artists with works in the period room

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label	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	occupation	image
Elizabeth Catlett	Black American-born Mexican artist (1915–2012)	Mexico United States of America	1915-04-15 1915	2012-04-02 2012	Washington, D.C.	sculptor printmaker painter illustrator teacher graphic artist artist
William H. Johnson	African American artist (1901-1970)	United States of America	1901-03-18	1970-04-13	Florence	painter printmaker
Lorna Simpson	American photographer	United States of America	1960-08-13		Brooklyn	photographer printmaker video artist drawer installation artist filmmaker visual artist
Magdalene Odundo	Kenyan-British artist	Kenya	1950-05-05		Nairobi	ceramicist
Willie Cole	African American artist	United States of America	1955		Newark	visual artist printmaker installation artist
Henry Taylor	American painter	United States of America	1958		Oxnard	painter
Roberto Lugo	American artist		1981		Kensington	potter visual artist
Njideka Akunyili Crosby	Nigerian-American visual artist	Nigeria United States of America	1983		Enugu	visual artist painter
Tourmaline	American activist, artist and writer	United States of America	1983-07-20		Boston	activist LGBTQ rights activist artist
Cyrus Kabiru	Kenyan artist	Kenya	1984		Nairobi	visual artist
Fabiola Jean-Louis	Haitian-American Photographer	Haiti	1978-09-10		Port-au-Prince	photographer visual artist sculptor
Jenn Nkiru	Nigerian-British artist and director	United Kingdom Nigeria			Peckham	filmmaker film director
Yinka Ilori	British visual artist and designer of Nigerian parentage	United Kingdom	1987-04			artist designer
Ini Archibong	Swiss–American artist and designer	United States of America Switzerland	1983		Pasadena	designer artist writer musician
Chuma Maweni	South African artist		1976		Gqeberha	artist ceramicist designer
Zizipho Poswa	South African artist	South Africa	1979-12-05		Mthatha	artist ceramicist
Andile Dyalvane	South African artist	South Africa	1978		Eastern Cape	artist ceramicist
Jomo Tariku	Ethiopian American designer					designer data scientist
Atang Tshikare	South African artist and designer	South Africa	1980		Bloemfontein	artist designer
Thomas Commeraw	American potter (c.1772–1823)	Kingdom of Great Britain United States of America	1772	1823		potter

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Video chapters

Segments of the Met video, with direct links into the video.

Youtube video: Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Virtual Opening

Segment	Timecode	Youtube link
Max Hollein, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art	00:04	link
Hannah Beachler, lead curator	03:14	link
Sarah Lawrence, curator in charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts	04:04	link
Ian Alteveer, curator, Modern and Contemporary Art	04:38	link
Sarah Lawrence, introducing Hannah Beachler	06:10	link
Michelle Commander, Seneca Village	06:39	link
Ian, perimeter walls	09:18	link
Michelle, kitchen space	10:17	link
Michelle, in these fragments we see lots of glass	11:02	link
Sarah, match American Wing works	11:28	link
Kitchen, styling one's hair	12:28	link
Pottery and ceramics	13:13	link
Hannah on time travel	14:29	link
Hearth	15:31	link
Television in living room	16:01	link
Living room space	16:38	link
Bird staff	17:04	link
Prestige stool	17:17	link
Shoes - Willie Cole	17:33	link
Flooring	18:21	link
Structure, framing and bookcase	18:32	link
Circle of chairs	19:05	link
Important to bring in contemporary artists	19:52	link
Chairs by Atang Tshikare	20:09	link
Mido Chair by Jomo Tariku	21:01	link
Ceramic by Zizipho Poswa, hair commentary	21:14	link
Radio - Miyale Ya Blue by Cyrus Kabiru	22:13	link
Lighting - Vernus 3 by Ini Archibong	22:35	link
Painting - Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first by Henry Taylor. Deep sea divers.	23:10	link
Dress - Justice of Ezili by Fabiola Jean-Louis	23:57	link
Michelle - Afrofuturism as creative mode	25:24	link
Hannah - Inspiring Black children	26:27	link
End credits	26:59	link

Interim results report

New articles

• Before Yesterday We Could Fly
• Yinka Ilori (from previous Articles for Creation)
• Zizipho Poswa
• Thomas Commeraw
• Flying Africans
• Period room
• Letter 47 (Seneca)

New categories

• w:Category:African-American ceramists
• w:Category:African-American potters

Improved articles

• Afrofuturism
• Seneca Village
• Tourmaline (activist)
• Henry Taylor (artist)
• Jenn Nkiru
• Roberto Lugo
• Ini Archibong
• Nnedi Okorafor (probably written independently)
• Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Sunday Feb 27: End-of-Month Zoom Meetup

Time: Feb 27, 2022 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) We'll review the #Interim results report, share the articles we worked on this month, and spend some casual social time learning and editing articles together.

Participants

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