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Black Lunch Table
@ Chicago Art Book Fair

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When and Where
Date:	Saturday, November 16, 2019
Time:	11:00 am – 2:00 pm ET
Address:	Chicago Athletic Association 12 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at the The Chicago Art Book Fair, where participants will learn how to add and edit Wikipedia articles! A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event. Photographer Ireashia Bennett will take free portraits for Wikipedia at our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop and a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Chicago Art Book Fair will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Chicago based Black artists. Together we will create & update texts that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

Jamila Raegan

Danielle and Elle McCoy (Work/Play)

Aay Preston Myint

Ayanah Moore

About The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT), an official Wikimedia Movement Affiliate, is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 14 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

More about BLT here.

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About the Chicago Art Book Fair

The Chicago Art Book Fair is an experiment in showcasing emerging directions and diverse legacies within small press arts publishing. The fair features an international group of over 125 arts publishers, small presses, book artists, comics artists, zinemakers and printmakers, with satellite programming and after parties. Beginning in 2017, it drew over 6,000 guests. In 2019, the Chicago Art Book Fair will once again convene at the historic Chicago Athletic Association, at 12 S. Michigan Avenue.

The Chicago Art Book Fair is a project of No Coast (Aay Preston-Myint and Alexander Valentine (artist)), a collaborative venture which is equal parts master printer for artists and an affordable, publicly accessible distributor for contemporary art. No Coast says, "After our travels around the world to different art book fairs, collections, stores, galleries, and libraries, we hope to bring our experiences of many, varied arts publishing events to Chicago. While Chicago is and has been home to many yearly convenings of print enthusiasts, this is the first following the “Art Book Fair” model that has spread to so many communities in recent years."

More here.

Event details

• Date: Saturday, November 16th, 2019
• Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm CDT
• Location: Chicago Athletic Association
  12 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
  • Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
  • Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
• What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
• Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

• Presentation / overview
• Editing time
• Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
• For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

• Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.

Suggest additional articles to edit

Although our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, you are welcomed to edit whatever you want. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Black Book Artists

This event-specific list focuses on important Book artists of the African Diaspora who are un/der-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing.

• Aay Preston-Myint
• Work / Play
• Homie House Press
• Jamiyla Lowe

Black Visual Artists of Chicago

This event-specific list focuses on important Black Chicago-based/born/affiliated visual artists who are un/der-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing.

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

• Thomas Lucas (artist)
• Andres Hernandez (artist)

Suggested articles to edit

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Chicago-based artists

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Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Aaron Douglas	male	painter	Topeka
Alicia Henry	female	visual artist educator	Illinois	Nashville
Allison Glenn	female	art exhibition curator		New Orleans Chicago
Alma Thomas	female	painter art educator	Columbus
Amanda Williams	female	visual artist sculptor installation artist	Bridgeport	Chicago
Ana Mendieta	female	performance artist artist painter visual artist land artist photographer	Havana	Havana
Angel Otero	male	painter	San Juan
Angela M. Rivers	female	artist curator		Chicago
Anna Martine Whitehead	female	artist		Chicago
Anthony Stepter	male	art exhibition curator teacher		Chicago
Archibald Motley	male	painter	New Orleans
Arnold Kemp	male	artist	Boston	Chicago
Atta Kwami	male	artist painter	Accra
Ayanah Moor	female	visual artist		Chicago Philadelphia Pittsburgh
Ayanna Jolivet McCloud	female	visual artist	Houston	Houston
Barbara Jones-Hogu	female	painter	Chicago	Chicago Washington, D.C.
Basil Alkazzi	male	painter visual artist	Kuwait	Monaco
Beauford Delaney	male	painter	Knoxville
Benny Andrews	male	painter visual artist printmaker teacher	Plainview	New York City
Bernard Williams	male	visual artist
Bethany Collins	female	visual artist		Atlanta Glasgow Tuscaloosa Chicago
Blanche Brown	female	artist	Chicago	Milwaukee
Brendan Fernandes	male	visual artist dancer sculptor choreographer	Kenya	New York City Canada Chicago
Caitlin Cherry	female	artist painter sculptor	Chicago	New York City
Candida Alvarez	female	painter visual artist	Brooklyn	Chicago Brooklyn Farragut Houses
Carlos Rolón	male	painter	Chicago
Caroline Kent	female	artist teacher		Chicago
Cauleen Smith	female	film director	Riverside	Chicago Los Angeles
Charles Wilbert White	male	painter	Chicago
Che Baraka	male	visual artist	Chicago	Brooklyn
Danny Giles	male	artist teacher		Chicago
David Hartt	male	visual artist
Dawoud Bey	male	photographer	New York City	Chicago
Deana Lawson	female	photographer	Rochester
Derrick Woods-Morrow	male	visual artist		Greensboro Chicago
Doris Salcedo	female	sculptor painter	Bogotá
Dread Scott	male	visual artist	Chicago
Earlie Hudnall, Jr.	male	visual artist
Ed Clark	male	painter	Storyville	New York City Chicago Paris
Edra Soto	female	visual artist	Puerto Rico	Chicago
Eileen Abdul-Rashid	female	visual artist artisan	California	California
Eldzier Cortor	male	painter graphic designer	Tidewater region of Virginia	Chicago
Eliza Myrie	female	visual artist	New York	Chicago
Elizabeth Catlett	female	sculptor engraver painter	Washington, D.C.	New York City Cuernavaca
Ellen Gallagher	female	painter	Providence
Fo Wilson	female	visual artist university teacher
Fred Hampton	male	activist politician human rights activist	Summit
Frederick J. Brown	male	painter visual artist	Greensboro	New York City Georgia Chicago Scottsdale
Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis	female	visual artist
George Tillman, Jr.	male	film director screenwriter film producer	Milwaukee
Gerald Griffin	male	painter visual artist	Chicago
Gerald Williams	male	visual artist		Chicago Washington, D.C.
Gordon Parks	male	film director photographer actor photojournalist screenwriter journalist film actor novelist fashion photographer artist film producer composer poet	Fort Scott
Hale Woodruff	male	painter visual artist	Cairo	Chicago Nashville Indianapolis Paris New York City
Hamza Walker	male	art exhibition curator		Chicago Los Angeles
Henry Ossawa Tanner	male	painter university teacher	Pittsburgh	Henry O. Tanner House
Horace Pippin	male	painter	West Chester
Huey Copeland	male	art historian
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi	male	painter diplomat politician	Omdurman
Isaac Julien	male	film producer artist film director university teacher	London
Jack Whitten	male	painter	Bessemer
Jacob Lawrence	male	painter	Atlantic City
Jae Jarrell	female	visual artist fashion designer textile artist		Chicago Cleveland
James Van Der Zee	male	photographer	Berkshire County
James Wells Champney	male	painter photographer	Boston
Janet Dees	female	art exhibition curator		Chicago
Jeff Donaldson	male	painter printmaker visual artist	Pine Bluff	Chicago Arkansas Illinois
Jefferson Pinder	male	visual artist	Washington, D.C.	Chicago
Jeffrey Gibson	male	painter sculptor	Colorado	Colorado
Jennie C. Jones	female	artist	Cincinnati
Jessica Vaughn	female	visual artist		Brooklyn Chicago
Jina Valentine	female	visual artist	Berwyn	Durham Chicago Philadelphia San Francisco
John Bankston	male	painter visual artist	Benton Harbor	San Francisco
John E. Dowell Jr.	male	painter	Philadelphia
Joseph Delaney	male	painter	Knoxville
Joshua Johnson	male	painter artist
Kamau Amu Patton	male	artist		Chicago San Francisco Brooklyn
Kamilah Rashied	female	art exhibition curator artist		Chicago
Kara Walker	female	artist	Stockton
Kerry James Marshall	male	painter	Birmingham	Chicago
Kori Newkirk	male	multimedia artist photographer painter installation artist	The Bronx
Krista Franklin	female	poet writer artist	United States of America	Chicago
Lamont Hamilton	male	visual artist	Wichita	Queens Chicago
Larry Chatman	male	visual artist photographer
Larry Rivers	male	sculptor painter saxophonist	New York City The Bronx
LaToya Ruby Frazier	female	photographer	Braddock	Chicago New Brunswick New York City
Malick Sidibé	male	photographer	Soloba
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs	female	poet visual artist writer	St. Rose	Louisiana Chicago
Marion Perkins	male	sculptor
Mark Bradford	male	painter installation artist conceptual artist sculptor printmaker video artist photographer artist	Los Angeles	Los Angeles
Martin Puryear	male	sculptor artist	Washington, D.C.
Martine Syms	female	artist	Los Angeles	Los Angeles
McArthur Binion	male	painter	Macon	Chicago Macon
Mequitta Ahuja	female	painter	Grand Rapids	Baltimore
Mequitta Ajuha	female	visual artist	Grand Rapids
Mickalene Thomas	female	painter photographer collagist	Camden
Mike Cloud	male	visual artist teacher		Brooklyn Chicago Minneapolis
Minnie Evans	female	illustrator gatekeeper	Pender County	Wilmington Wrightsville Beach
Moshekwa Langa	male	visual artist photographer	Bakenberg
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir	male	painter	Chicago	Carbondale
Naomi Beckwith	female	curator		New York City Chicago
Napoleon Jones-Henderson	male	visual artist	Chicago
Nate Young	male	visual artist		Chicago
Nelson Stevens	male	painter
NIC Kay	non-binary	performance artist choreographer		The Bronx Chicago
Nick Cave	male	sound artist sculptor costume designer fashion designer	Fulton	Chicago
Nina Chanel Abney	female	painter	Harvey	Chicago New York City
Norman Lewis	male	painter	Harlem
Nyeema Morgan	female	visual artist		Brooklyn Chicago Minneapolis
Radcliffe Bailey	male	painter visual artist	Bridgeton	Atlanta
Rashayla Marie Brown	female	performance artist visual artist		Chicago
Rashid Johnson	male	photographer film director		Chicago New York City
Ray Noland	male	visual artist	Chicago	Berlin
Richard Hunt	male	sculptor artist educator printmaker lithographer	South Side Chicago	Chicago
Richmond Barthé	male	artist sculptor	Bay St. Louis	New York City California
Robin Rhode	male	photographer graphic designer	Cape Town
Rodney McMillian	male	painter artist	Columbia
Roland Freeman	male	photographer art historian	Baltimore
Romi Crawford	female	writer critic art historian		Chicago
Roy DeCarava	male	photographer university teacher	New York City	Bedford–Stuyvesant
Sam Gilliam	male	painter	Tupelo
Sanford Biggers	male	artist	Los Angeles	New York City Harlem
Saya Woolfalk	female	artist
Sedrick Huckaby	male	painter
Senam Okudzeto	female	artist	Chicago
Senga Nengudi	female	sculptor	Chicago
Simone Leigh	female	sculptor ceramist artist	Chicago	Brooklyn
Steffani Jemison	female	artist	Berkeley	Brooklyn Berkeley
Tempestt Hazel	female			Chicago
Theaster Gates	male	artist	Chicago
Tyanna Buie	female	visual artist	Chicago
Vincent Smith	male	visual artist	New York City
Wadsworth Jarrell	male	sculptor painter printmaker	Albany	Chicago Washington, D.C.
Walter Ellison	male	painter
Wifredo Lam	male	painter	Sagua La Grande
William Cordova	male	visual artist
William Edmondson	male	painter	Nashville
William Edouard Scott	male	painter	Indianapolis
William McBride, Jr.	male	visual artist
William Paul Thomas	male	visual artist	Chicago
William Pope.L	male	painter performance artist visual artist	Newark	New York City New Jersey Chicago
Yashua Klos	male	visual artist	Chicago	Brooklyn Chicago
Yesomi Umolu	female	curator	Lagos	Chicago London
Zanele Muholi	female	photographer social activist	Umlazi	Umlazi
Zun Lee	male	photographer artist	Germany	Toronto Philadelphia Chicago Atlanta

End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

Where to start...

Add an Infobox! Adding images! Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different! Follow instructions to upload your images here... Create or update Wikidata! Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Go to Wikidata Read Wikidata's Introduction! Search for the person or subject If none exists, you can 'Create a new item' Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal. To add a field, click 'Add Statement' Wikidata + AuthorityControl Create or update Authority Control! Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org) Go to VIAF.org Search for person (last name, first name) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories Refresh Wikipedia page Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes

List of Articles created

1. Chicago Art Book Fair
2. Aay Preston-Myint

Metrics

References

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Fishantena (talk) 04:52, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

• Slongfel118 (talk) 18:29, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

• Sabrinasnowball8 (talk) 19:25, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

• Pi3832 (talk) 19:46, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

• Paul Burley (talk)