Wikipedia:Meetup/Black History Month Edit-a-thon at Diablo Valley College

Event information

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Date: Thursday, February 22, 2021
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Host: Anne Kingsley
Any Questions: email akingsley@dvc.edu (Anne)

Why Participate?

Become a wikipedia editor, get read by thousands of people, and contribute to Black History online. Faculty, students, administrators, and campus staff are invited to participate in Diablo Valley College's second "Black History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon". Last year, we focused on Black Histories of the Bay Area. We had 12 people participate, 65 total edits, and 1200 words added to 11 articles. Those articles received 70,100 views! This is an incredible way to document histories that have been previously erased or lost, to learn about research, and to learn about open-sourced or crowd-sourced histories.

This year, we are focusing on Black artists and arts.

How to Participate?

Before the Event

If possible, create a Wikipedia account before the event.

Agenda

Drop in any time, stay as long as you like!

4:00: Wikipedia Editing Basics--get signed up, get started, learn how to contribute ( 1 hr)
5:00: Editing Breakout Groups (1 hr)

List of articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

Improve:

Aaron Douglas African American artist of the Harlem Renaissance, famous for his murals that celebrated black identity, history, and social issues.
Augusta Savage American sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance.
William Henry Johnson Folk artist and print maker of Harlem Renaissance.
James Van Der Zee African American photographer.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett African American artist and poet.
Richard Bruce Nugent Artist and writer
Hale Woodruff Painter known for his murals
Sargent Claude Johnson Artist working in California
Bobby Freeman African American rock and soul musician born in San Francisco/ Expand.
AfriCOBRA group of artists within the Black Arts Movement (in Chicago)
Eugene Warburg African American Sculptor of 19th century
Claude Clark African American painter and printmaker from Oakland, CA. Needs Citations.
Pauline Powell Burns The first African American artist to exhibit in California and famous for piano recitals in SF. Expand.
Martin Puryear 20th-21st century Sculptor

The Rainbow Sign See The Berkeley Revolution. A Berkeley Black cultural center active from 1971-1977.
Blackman's Art Gallery See Openspace MOMA. See Video on the gallery. The first gallery privately owned by an African American in 1967. Operated in SF until 1974.

Emmanuel Francis Joseph See The Black Past and Calisphere. E.F. Joseph was a photojournalist for many Bay Area newspapers and ran a photo studio out of his home in Oakland.

Bill Traylor African American Folk Artist born into slavery

Quilts of Gee's Bend Famous collective of African-American quiltmakers.

List of African-American visual artists This is a good list for African-American artists. You can click through to see where additions or corrections are needed. You can also add people to the list who are missing.

Example Pages for Inspiration and Direction

Elizabeth Catlett Artist and activist.

Resources for editing

Tutorials

Art+Feminism resources

Manual of Style: list of works