Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Evans-Tibbs Archive of African American Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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Evans-Tibbs Archive of African American Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Join us at the National Gallery of Art Library and help to improve and create Wikipedia articles about African American art and artists.
This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon accompanies the exhibition, In the Library: The Evans-Tibbs Archive of African American Art, which showcases the life and work of Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., an accomplished art appraiser, broker, collector, and dealer, as well as the founder and director of his eponymous art gallery in Washington, DC. Tibbs is best known for his donation to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, now an important part of the National Gallery’s holdings by African American artists. To support his research, Tibbs amassed approximately more than a thousand reference files comprising more than seventy boxes of material documenting art of the African diaspora. Tibbs opened up his reference collection, now commonly known as the Evans-Tibbs Archive, to artists, students, and scholars. The archive includes correspondence, exhibition pamphlets, gallery records, photographs, and other ephemera that illustrate the history of the Tibbs family, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, and African American art.
No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary; training will be provided. Reference materials from the library’s collection and the Evans-Tibbs Archive will be readily available.
Lunch will be provided. If you have dietary restrictions, please email library@nga.gov.
Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.
Any other questions? Email library@nga.gov.
When
- Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:30AM-4PM
Where
- National Gallery of Art Library - East Building
- 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Washington, DC 20565
Register
- Register here with Eventbrite'
Coordination
[edit]- Please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.
Schedule
[edit]Time | Activity |
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10:30AM | Welcome, housekeeping – Roger Lawson, Executive Librarian : Remarks – Steven Nelson |
11:00AM | Training: How to Edit to Wikipedia (Wikimedia DC) |
12:00PM to close | Editing |
Ongoing | Lunch. Please request a voucher at the event. |
12:30PM & 3:00PM | Tour of Tibbs Exhibition |
4PM | Close |
Please sign in
[edit]- This is for use on the day of the event.
- 1) Select 'Sign in'
- 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.
- Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.
Presentation
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/NGA_Evans-Tibbs_Archive_EENT_2019_Slides.pdf/page1-220px-NGA_Evans-Tibbs_Archive_EENT_2019_Slides.pdf.jpg)
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- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:General notability guideline
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- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
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- Wikipedia:Citing sources
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Quick Editing Tips
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For Creation
- George Andrews (artist)
- Malcolm Bailey (artist)
- Phoebe Beasley
- Tarleton Blackwell
- Richard Dempsey (artist)
- Anne Marchand
- Ulysses Marshall
- Tyrone Mitchell (sculptor)
- Norma Morgan
- Ademola Olugebefola
- Marion Perkins
- Michael Platt (artist)
- Sidney Schenck
- Evelyn Patricia Terry
- Yvonne Edwards Tucker
- Curtis Tucker
- Joyce Wellman
- Gerry O. Wyche
- Thurlow Evans-Tibbs Jr.
- Evans-Tibbs Collection
Stub
Start
- David Bustill Bowser
- Kay Brown (artist)
- Lilian Thomas Burwell
- Allen 'Big Al' Carter
- John E. Dowell Jr.
- Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey
- Georgia Mills Jessup
- Joyce J. Scott
- Percy Martin (artist)
- Richard Mayhew
- William Pajaud
- Delilah Pierce
- Stephanie Pogue
- John Rhoden
- Aminah Robinson
- Synthia Saint James
- Moneta Sleet Jr.
- Lou Stovall
- Mose Tolliver
- Leo Twiggs
- Inez Nathaniel-Walker
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Resources/Potential Secondary Sources
[edit]Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online (AKL) (On-site use only)
African Amer. Visual Artists Database
Oxford Art Online (on-site only)
Who’s Who in American Art (on-site only)
of American Art, Oral Histories
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Project MUSE, on-site only)
International Review of African American Art (Art & Architecture Source, on-site only)
Tibbs Exhibition webpage (Includes link to exhibition brochure)
Credit Information: [Citation]. Evans-Tibbs Collection, Artist file: Lewis, Edmonia. National Gallery of Art Library, Washington D.C.
Lewis, Edmonia. How Edmonia Lewis Became an Artist, 1870. Evans-Tibbs Collection, Artist file: Lewis, Edmonia. National Gallery of Art Library, Washington D.C.
Attendees
[edit]- Covace 16:36, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Outcomes
[edit]- Wikis: *.wikipedia, commons.wikimedia, en.wikipedia
- Start date: 2019-02-23 10:30 (America/New York)
- End date: 2019-02-23 17:00
Bytes changed | Edits | Files in use | Files uploaded | New editors | Pages created | Views to pages created | Pages improved | Avg. daily views to pages improved | Unique pages with uploaded files | Participants | 7 day retention |
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36,107 | 109 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 141 | 26 | 418 | 7 | 17 | 5 |