Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/ArtAndFeminism 2017

Emory University
2017 Art+Feminism
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
When and Where
Date	Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Time	5:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Address	Woodruff Library; Emory University; 540 Asbury Circle
City, State	Atlanta, GA 30322

Event information

Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Location: Woodruff Library, Emory University, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322
Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.

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What to Bring: Attendees can bring their own laptops and power cords; however, there will be computers available. We will also have dinner, reference materials, training, and subject experts on hand. You will need a picture ID to enter the library.

Emory's Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thon will be held as part of Social Justice Week at Emory.

List of articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion (or to be created) during the edit-a-thon. They are listed by their Wikipedia quality grade, which tells you how robust the article is. We would love participants to suggest other articles related to women artists and social justice. You can do that here in advance or at the event.

Draft articles (need the most work):

Patricia Lahatte (1917-2010) – newspaper executive and artist
Alli Royce Soble (1973- ) – photographer, painter, and mixed media artist
Carol Cunningham (1925-2013) – book artist and founder of Sunflower Press
Ruth Laxson (1924- ) – book artist from Atlanta
Ann Tyler (b. 1950s) – American book artist and professor
Maureen Cummins (1963- ) – American book artist
Karen Hanmer – American book artist
Emily McVarish (1965- ) – American writer, deisgner, and book artist
Robbin Ami Silverberg (b. 1960?) – American book artist
Carolee Campbell (1936- ) – book artist, publisher, and photographer
Stephanie Dowda – Atlanta-based artist
Molly Rose Freeman (1985- ) – Atlanta-based artist
Robin Bernat (1965- ) – Georgia artist and gallery owner

Stub-class articles:

Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939) – internationally acclaimed visual artist, bestselling novelist and award-winning poet
Doris Derby – activist, documentary photographer and retired adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Georgia State University
Katherine Mitchell (b. 1944) – American abstract painter based in Atlanta

Start-class articles:

Susan Bee (b. 1952) – a New York City-based painter, editor, and book artist
Julie Chen – American book artist
Samella Lewis (b. 1925) – African-American artist (primarily a printmaker and painter), author, art historian and former educator
Bea Nettles (b. 1942) – fine art photographer, author, and book artist
Dianora Niccolini (b. 1936) – fine art photographer who is widely considered to be one of the female pioneers in the photography of the male nude
Lucy May Stanton (1875-1931) – American painter from Atlanta
Mildred Thompson (1936-2003) – American artist who worked in the media of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. She was also a writer and an associate editor for the magazine Art Papers, based in Atlanta

C-class articles:

Amalia Amaki (b. 1959) – African-American artist, art historian, educator, film critic and curator; Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa since 2007.
Camille Billops (b. 1933) – African-American sculptor, filmmaker, archivist, and printmaker

Uncategorized:

Mary E. Hutchinson (1906-1970) – artist and teacher in the New York Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration
Linda Armstrong (b. 1950s) – American artist and instructor of Sculpture at Emory University

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Jennifersyoung (talk) 19:37, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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