Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/ARLIS2022

Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host a lightning edit-a-thon to conclude our presentation at ARLIS/NA's 50th Annual Conference. As is the focus of all of our edit-a-thons we encourage conference attendees to make edits the the articles and items of important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers.

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Black Lunch Table (BLT)is a nonprofit organization and sixteen-year ongoing artist collaboration. BLT’s primary aim has been the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues.

Black Lunch Table Wikimedians mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. In the field of mainstream contemporary art, Black artists are still marginalized within our field.

Wikipedia estimates that 77% of their editors are white and 91% of their editors are men. Our work shifts this demographic and empowers people to write their own history. Our sessions and events, including BLT Photobooth and edit-a-thons, equip new editors with the skills and resources to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles and encourages existing editors to focus on Wikipedia knowledge gaps.

Founded in 1972 the Art Libraries Society of North America had a mission to sustain a group that could fulfill the need among art librarians for better communication and cooperation, and to provide a forum for ideas, projects, and programs. ARLIS/NA promotes the interests of more than 1,000 members. The membership includes architecture and art librarians, visual resources professionals, artists, curators, educators, publishers, students, and others throughout North America interested in visual arts information.

https://www.arlisna.org/

Black Lunch Table's task list is made up of Black visual artists who are under-represented on Wikipedia. We welcome additions to our list so long as they are within our scope. We encourage editors to suggest artists who do not have a page or whose page is a stub over adding an artist who already has a substantial page and presence. Please always defer to Wikipedia's NOTABILTY guidelines for new pages.

BLT's Main Task List

Please suggest specific Black artists who are notable and who need their article created or whose existing article needs improvement. Be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines, thanks!

• JOE DOE

Photographs and images are an important part of Wiki as well. If you are interested in uploading images use the below resources to learn how and make sure you have the right licensing for all images uploaded.

• Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.

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• Verge1927 (talk) 16:22, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Jstdjenkins (talk) 15:00, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jeremy Jenkins Chair ARlIS Uk & Ireland