Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Southeast Queens Biennial 2018

Black Lunch Table
@ Southeast Queens Biennial

QL Central Library
When and Where
Date:	Saturday, April 21, 2018
Time:	11:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Address:	The Queens Library 89 – 11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens

Editathon with Black Lunch Table at Queens Library for No Longer Empty's Southeast Queens Biennial.

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project hosted an edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm EdT on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at The Queens Library. A training session was held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Please bring your laptop and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at The Queens Library will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Queens area visual artists from the African Diaspora, artists featured in the 2018 Southeast Queens Biennial and related subjects. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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 a library resources and a list of suggested artists and music on hand.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) 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 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.

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About the Southeast Queens Biennial

No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab and York College Fine Arts Gallery present the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points. In its inaugural year, the Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points identifies movement as an organizing principle for understanding Southeast Queens as a gateway for travel and a source of cultural production and exchange deeply rooted in its immigrant communities. This concept finds its roots in the writing of bell hooks, a visionary feminist activist and author, who speaks to the transformative potential of shifting one’s focus to consider the margin and center not as disparate parts, but as making up a whole body. Locus, from the Latin for “location” or “place,” is used in geometry to refer to a set of points that meet a given condition. Combined, these concepts suggest an active way of seeing that dismantles the notion of a dominant center by shifting perceptions of what makes up both center and periphery. More here.

Event details

• Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018
• Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
• Location: The Queens Library, 
89 – 11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, 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 #SEQueensBiennial
• 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

Uploading photos

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

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
•   denotes Infobox is needed

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

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

• Suggested Name Here

Southeast Queens Biennial artists

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

• Salimah Ali
• Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess
• Natali S. Bravo-Barbee
• Ify Chiejina
• Renee Harper
• Janet Henry
• Corona Johnson
• Rejin Leys
• Sana Musasama
• Shervone Neckles
• Odathrowback
• Okechukwu Okegrass Ofiaeli
• Elizabeth Velazquez
• Lisa Wade

Other biennial-related articles

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

• Store Front Museum
• Margaret Rose Vendryes
• Jamaica Center for Arts Learning
• Emmett Wigglesworth

Queens-affiliated artists

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

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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!

Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Dave McKenzie	male	visual artist	Kingston Jamaica	Brooklyn Queens
Elia Alba	female	visual artist multimedia artist	New York City	Queens
Frances Bodomo	female	film maker artist	Ghana	New York City Queens
Janelle Iglesias	female	visual artist	Queens
Jayson Keeling	male	visual artist	Brooklyn	Long Island City
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow	female	performance artist visual artist	Manchester Parish Jamaica	Queens
John L. Moore	male	painter visual artist	Cleveland	Queens Cleveland
Julie Dash	female	film director novelist	Long Island City
Kevin Beasley	male	visual artist		New York City Lynchburg Astoria
Lamont Hamilton	male	visual artist	Wichita	Queens Chicago
Leslie Hewitt	female	artist	New York City Queens
Lisa Iglesias	female	visual artist	Queens
Margaret Rose Vendryes	female	visual artist academic curator	Jamaica Kingston	Queens
Michelle Marie Charles	female	visual artist		New York City Queens
Niama Safia Sandy	female	curator anthropologist		Brooklyn Queens New York City
Oasa DuVerney	female	visual artist	Queens	Brooklyn
Okechukwu Okegrass Ofiaeli	male	visual artist sculptor		Queens
Sam Vernon	female	visual artist	Brooklyn	New York City Oakland Queens
Shaun Leonardo	male		Queens
Tahir Hemphill	male	multimedia artist	New York City	New York City Queens
Tom Lloyd	male	visual artist		Queens
Wardell Milan	male	artist	Knoxville	Queens

End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

Where to start...

Add an Infobox! Adding images! Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different! Follow instructions to upload your images here... Create or update Wikidata! Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Go to Wikidata Read Wikidata's Introduction! Search for the person or subject If none exists, you can 'Create a new item' Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal. To add a field, click 'Add Statement' Wikidata + AuthorityControl Create or update Authority Control! Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org) Go to VIAF.org Search for person (last name, first name) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories Refresh Wikipedia page Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes

Extended content

Alphabetical by first letter denotes Infobox added  Pages improved Koyo Kouoh Lewis Howard Latimer List of museums in Illinois Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Shantrelle P. Lewis Hammond, Louisiana Lewis H. Latimer House Tahir Hemphill Julie Dash Dr. Charles Smith Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Juan Logan Jacci Gresham Pages created Vandorn Hinnant Okechukwu Ofiaeli Sandbox articles started Wikidata items improved Wikidata items created Wikimedia Commons images uploaded Robin Holder Okechukwu Okegrass Ofiaeli Sherese Francis Basil Kincaid Ifeatuanya Chiejina Rejin Leys Salimah Ali

Metrics

Extended content
Outreach Dashboard Articles Created: 2 Articles Edited: 18 Total Edits: 104 Editors: 11 Words Added: 7.22k Article Views: Commons Uploads: 10

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Nikitag94 (talk) 16:01, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Sherese F (talk) 16:01, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Heathart (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• GugelbergerR (talk) 16:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Cyg232935 (talk) 16:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Creative3intention (talk) 16:06, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• NiamaSandy (talk) 16:10, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Navalooarts (talk) 16:10, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Sfritche (talk)

• Rpristoop (talk)

• Muserna Muserna (talk) 17:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)