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Date: | July 31st, 2021 |
Time: | 12PM PST |
Address: | online: bit (dot) ly/BLTEditSeattle |
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an online edit-a-thon that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on July 31st, 2021 at 12PM PST. An overview of Wiki basics, an introduction to the Wikimedia Community, and how to update and edit articles will be held at the beginning of the session. No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required and help will be available throughout the event. The event is free and open to all.
Date: Saturday, July 31st, 2021 Time: 12:00pm PST Location: Online @ bit (dot) ly/BLTEditSeattle
Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, the curious... What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
Agenda: * Introduction * Presentation /Wiki Overview * Editing time / Questions * Goals: Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for edit-a-thon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page * BLT Wiki onboarding presentation * Etherpad:BlackLunchTable - Keep track of live editing during our session * Resources and How-to's
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.
Wa Na Wari creates space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection.
We are a center for Black art and culture in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood. Sited in a 5th-generation Black-owned home, Wa Na Wari:
Hosts rotating exhibits by local and regional Black artists Provides a space for workshops, performances, and lectures Convenes changemakers, elders, youth, neighbors, and artists for collaboration, innovation, and community organizing. Operates an oral history studio for gathering and sharing the stories of Seattle’s historically Black Central District
Seattle’s Central District was 80% Black in the 1970s. Today, it is less than 14% Black. Seattle’s affordability crisis has eliminated spaces where Black artists can work, create, and live. Aging Black homeowners struggle to afford skyrocketing property taxes. Remaining Black residents experience isolation and economic hardship. Wa Na Wari addresses these community challenges in the following ways.
We provide space for Black artists to collaborate, exhibit their work, and network with other artists, collectors, and patrons. We pay Black artists, writers, curators, performers, and gallery sitters, and in so doing put money back into the regional Black creative economy. We present a new model for sustainable Black homeownership by financially supporting the elderly Black homeowner in whose home Wa Na Wari is located, and we regularly convene other Black homeowners to explore this model.
The Grocery is the private art studio of Demi Raven and Janet Galore on North Beacon Hill. The studio is a creative space where we host occasional pop-up art exhibitions, workshops, lectures, music performances, and other creative activities. The building has deep roots in the community, born as a corner grocery store that served the neighborhood from 1929 through the late 1990s. We seek to support and incubate creative endeavors that highlight the voices of and enrich the local community.
The building was built in 1929, owned by Sam and Mary Ulovich, who ran a grocery store there until 1943. In 1955, the store was listed as Three Thousand and One Grocery. Masaru Nomura purchased the building in November of 1956, and from 1961 through 1965, the building was known as Fred’s Grocery. The building has also served as a restaurant supply, and an outreach ministry from 1998-2005. The building is listed in the City of Seattle historic sites.
https://thegrocerystudios.com/
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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.
Please suggest specific artists, curators and arts workers who are Black, notable and need their article created or whose existing article needs improvement. Be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines, thanks!
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 | Occupation | Place of birth | Residence |
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Barbara Earl Thomas | painter writer |
Seattle | Seattle |
Barry Johnson | story artist | Seattle | |
Elisheba Johnson | curator artist poet |
Seattle | |
Esther Ervin | artist sculptor curator |
Somerville | Seattle |
Gwendolyn Knight | sculptor drawer artist |
Bridgetown | |
Heather Hart | artist | Seattle | Brooklyn Seattle Portland |
Jacob Lawrence | painter architectural draftsperson |
Atlantic City | |
Jite Agbro | artist designer |
Lagos | Seattle |
John E. Dowell Jr. | painter photographer assistant professor artist drawer |
Philadelphia | Philadelphia Seattle Los Angeles |
Marita Dingus | visual artist sculptor |
Seattle | |
Milt Simons | visual artist | Seattle | |
Noah Davis | painter installation artist |
Seattle | |
Preston Wadley | photographer multimedia artist |
Los Angeles | Seattle |
Weldon Butler | painter | Philadelphia | Seattle |
Xenobia Bailey | fashion designer visual artist costume designer |
Seattle | New York City |
Yvonne Cole Meo | visual artist | Seattle |
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.