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About PAMM
[edit]The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Museum Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it became known as the Miami Art Museum from 1996 until it was renamed in 2013 upon the opening of its new building designed by Herzog & de Meuron at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard. PAMM, along with the $275 million Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and a city park which are being built in the area with completion in 2017, is part of the 20-acre Museum Park (formerly Bicentennial Park).[1]
In 2014, the museum's permanent collection contained over 1,800 works, particularly 20th- and 21st-century art from the Americas, Western Europe and Africa.[2] In 2016, the museum's collection contained nearly 2,000 works.[3]
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is directly served by rapid transit at Museum Park Metromover station.
About Art+Feminism
[edit]Art and Feminism (stylized as Art+Feminism) is an annual worldwide edit-a-thon to add content to Wikipedia about women artists, which started in 2014. The project has been described as "a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionately written by and about men".[4][5]
In 2014, Art+Feminism's inaugural campaign attracted 600 volunteers at 30 separate events.[5][4] The following year, a total of 1,300 volunteers attended 70 events that took place across 17 different countries, on four continents. Since then more than 20,000 people have taken part in over 1,500 events. This has led to positive results in over 100,000 Wikipedia articles. [5] More than 18,000 people have participated and created or improved approximately 84,000 Wikipedia articles at 1,260 events globally, as of 2021.[update][6]
About Michaela Blanc
[edit]Michaela Blanc is currently the Wikimedian in Residence (WIR) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (January 2023 – present) and a Regional Ambassador for Art+Feminism, serving Brazil and the Mid-Atlantic Region. She edits in both Portuguese and English languages. A museum curator, she cultivates a passion for modern and contemporary visual arts, especially the works of women, cis and trans, and non-binary artists from the Americas. She holds an MA in Museum Studies/Museum Education, and a BA in Art History.
References
[edit]- ^ Work of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami February 2014 page 24 Florida Trend
- ^ Tucker, Neely (2014-02-21). "Pérez Art Museum Miami's setting on the banks of Biscayne Bay is part of the show". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ Singer, Paola (2016-11-17). "36 Hours in Miami and Miami Beach". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ a b "101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week". ARTnews. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
- ^ a b c "Art+Feminism's 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Adds 334 Articles on Female Artists". ARTnews. 2015-03-11. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
- ^ Chernick, Karen (August 9, 2020). "National Museum of Women in the Arts to Host Wiki Edit-a-thon Focused on Women of Color". The New York Observer. Retrieved August 11, 2020.