Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/SixtyCriticsCollab

CurrentBLT Bingo ArchiveResourcesTask ListJoin us!Event ArchiveAbout

Black Lunch Table x
Sixty Inches from Center
Critics Collab

Pitch today!
Applications Open:	June 4th, 2024
Application Deadline:	July 1st, 2024
Finalists Notified:	July 22nd - July 26th

CROWDSOURCING THE CANON

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) Wikipedia initiative mobilizes the creation and improvement of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. Central to the documentation of an artist’s life and work on Wikipedia are reliable, citable written works. Sixty Inches From Center (Sixty) is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest.

BLT’s x Sixty’s collaboration will create an opportunity for emerging Black art critics and writers writing on Black artists, with a focus on contemporary exhibitions to be published. The underrepresentation of Black artists on Wiki mirrors the imbalance in coverage of Black artists in general publishing and critical arts writing. We aim to increase the quantity and quality of citations possible for articles about contemporary Black artists on Wikipedia. BLT’s x Sixty collaboration bridges the citation gap that exists between an artist's career and the criticism they receive–discourse that is crucial to fulfilling Wikipedia's notability requirements.

Call for Writers

  As a part of a new editorial collaboration with Black Lunch Table, we are announcing an open call for writers to pitch critical essays, journalistic takes, exhibition reviews (solo or two-person shows), and/or deep dives into the lives and practices of Black artists based in the Midwest, especially those whose Wiki pages lack sufficient citations. See a list of topics in the 'Who or What to Write About for the Collab' section below.
 
  This call will prioritize those who have a clear commitment to researching, curating, or writing about Black cultural production and artistic practices. Sixty defines the Midwest as the interconnected Native lands and diverse communities overlapping the arbitrary colonial boundaries of North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Each piece has a suggested length of up to 1,000 words.  

  To submit, please fill out Sixty’s pitch submission form on our “Pitch to Sixty” page. To indicate that you are submitting to this project by writing in “BLT x Sixty Critics” for your work’s genre in the Google Form. We are accepting pitches through July 1, 2024. 

Wikipedia Meetups

November 2024 +/-
London 210	November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10)
US Mountain West online	November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2	November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Oxford 106	November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17)
San Diego 116	November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18)
Seattle meetup	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
CCA Montreal Editathon	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024	November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
Brighton 3	November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours	November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)
Brixton 5	November 26, 2024 (2024-11-26)
December 2024 +/-
Christchurch 34	December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
London 211	December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
San Diego 117	December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16)
Seattle meetup	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

Not a writer or can't pitch right now?

There are other ways that you can improve the quality/presence of Black artists on wiki right now. You can:

• Add a photo to wikicommons
• Suggest a name of an artist who should be on our task list
• Get a user name and start editing with BLT

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.

BLT's Main Task List

Sixty's archive already has MANY articles about Black artists. You can see a list of published articles here and include more information in existing artist pages or start a new one.

Published Sixty Articles About Black Artists

BLT Photobooth

Photographs and images are an important part of Wiki as well. For this project, we will pair a photographer to photograph the artist written about in your contribution. See portraits form past BLT Photobooths below:

• 
  Che Gossett
• 
  Danny Simmons
• 
  Nic Kay
• 
  Derrick Adams
• 
  Abigail DeVille
• 
  Sajda Musawwir Ladner
• 
  Dindga McCannon
• 
  Rashayla Marie Brown
• 
  Basil Kincaid
• 
  Tiona Nekkia McClodden
• 
  Sam Vernon
• 
  Joiri Minaya
• 
  Cey Adams

Who or What to Write About for the Collab

• Exhibition Reviews (solo or two-person shows) - see a list of upcoming Midwest shows

Below are lists of suggested artists to edit from some Midwestern states and cities.

Illinois

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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!

Misc

Article	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Alicia Henry	visual artist
Jeff Donaldson	American artist (1932-2004)

End of auto-generated list.

Chicago

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Amanda Williams	visual artist
Angela M. Rivers	artist and curator
Anna Martine Whitehead	Artist
Anthony Stepter	Curator
Arnold J. Kemp	American artist
Ayanah Moor	American artist
Barbara Jones-Hogu	American artist
Bethany Collins	American visual artist
Betty Venus Blue	American textile and fiber artist (1950–1997)
Blanche Brown	American artist
Brendan Fernandes	Kenyan-Indian-Canadian dancer and visual artist
Caitlin Cherry	American visual artist
Candida Alvarez	American visual artist
Carlos Rolón	American visual artist
Caroline Kent	Artist
Cauleen Smith	American film director
Charles Wilbert White	African American artist (1918-1979)
Che Baraka	American visual artist
Danny Giles	Artist
Dawoud Bey	African American artist
Derrick Woods-Morrow	American visual artist
Diamond Stingily	American artist
Dread Scott	American artist (born 1965)
Ebony G. Patterson	Jamaican artist
Ed Clark	Arican-American painter, 1926-2019
Edra Soto	visual artist
Eldzier Cortor	African American artist (1916-2015)
Eliza Myrie	visual artist, co-executive director of the Black Lunch Table
Frederick J. Brown	American visual artist (1945-2012)
Frohawk Two Feathers	artist
Gerald Griffin	American artist
Gerald Williams	American artist
Germane Barnes	American architect, designer and professor
Gladys Barker Grauer	American visual artist and art educator
Hale Woodruff	African American artist
Hamza Walker	American curator
Harold Mendez	chicago-born Artist (born 1977)
Jae Jarrell	American artist
Janet Dees	American curator
Jeff Donaldson	American artist (1932-2004)
Jefferson Pinder	American artist
Jessica Vaughn	American visual artist
Jina Valentine	American artist
Kamau Amu Patton	American artist
Kamilah Rashied	American Curator
Kerry James Marshall	American painter and professor
Krista Franklin	African-American poet and visual artist
LaToya Ruby Frazier	African American photographer and professor
Lamont Hamilton	American visual artist
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs	American visual artist (1915-2010)
Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly	American sculptor (1937-2012)
McArthur Binion	American visual artist
Mike Cloud	American visual artist
NIC Kay	American performance artist
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir	American painter
Naomi Beckwith	American curator
Napoleon Jones-Henderson	American weaver and multimedia artist
Nate Young	American artist
Nathaniel Mary Quinn	American artist
Nick Cave	African-American fabric sculptor, dancer, and performance artist
Nina Chanel Abney	American artist
Nyeema Morgan	American visual artist
Paula Wilson	American visual artist
Rashayla Marie Brown	American artist
Rashid Johnson	American artist and film director (1977- )
Ray Noland	American artist
Red Jordan Arobateau	American author, playwright, poet and painter
Rex Goreleigh	American artist (1902–1986)
Romi Crawford	art historian
Ruth Miller	American artist (1904-1978)
Senam Okudzeto	British artist
Senga Nengudi	American artist, curator (b. 1943)
Shawné Michaelain Holloway	American new media artist and digital feminist
Simone Leigh	African American artist
Tempestt Hazel	American Curator
Theaster Gates	artist
Thelma Johnson Streat	American artist, dancer, and educator. First African American to have painting at MoMA
Torkwase Dyson	interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, United States
Tyanna Buie	American visual artist
Wadsworth Jarrell	African American artist
William Paul Thomas	William Paul Thomas Born -00T Chicago Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Occupation visual artist visual artist (*1985) ♂
William Pope.L	American artist (1955–2023)
Yashua Klos	American visual artist
Yesomi Umolu	British museum curator
Yvonne Edwards Tucker	American ceramicist and sculptor
Zun Lee	Canadian photographer

End of auto-generated list.

Kansas

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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!

Misc

Article	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Betsy Graves Reyneau	American painter

End of auto-generated list.

Wisconsin

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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!

Misc

Article	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Donna Bruton	visual artist
Lafayette Cruise	Urban planner

End of auto-generated list.

Columbus

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Acha Debela	visual artist
Adger W. Cowans	American artist and photographer
Jacob Mason-Macklin	artist
Linda Goode Bryant	American film director and gallerist
Louis Cameron	American Visual Artist
Ming Smith	African American photographer
Nanette Carter	American visual artist
Odili Donald Odita	Nigerian-American artist
Sean M. Johnson	Sean M. Johnson Born -00T Columbus Occupation visual artist visual artist (*1981) ♂
Seteria Dorsey	artist

End of auto-generated list.

Indianapolis

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Carl Robert Pope	photo and video artist
Carol Ann Carter	American artist
Hale Woodruff	African American artist
William Edouard Scott	African American artist (1884-1964)
William Majors	African American artist (1930-1982)

End of auto-generated list.

Detroit

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Alvin D. Loving	American artist (1935-2005)
Ben Blount	African American artist
Ben Blout	Artist
Burnis Calvin Day	American artist
Eric Pryor	American arts administrator and painter
Franchesca G. Lamarre	Artist
Gabrielle Civil	American Visual Artist
Gilda Snowden	American, Black/African-American, Mixed Media Artist, Sculptor (1954–2014)
Jasmine Murrell	American visual artist
Jibade-Khalil Huffman	Jibade-Khalil Huffman Born -00T Detroit Nationality United States of America Occupation visual artist visual artist, artist-in-residence (*1981) ♂
Jova Lynn Vargas	Artist
Kara Springer	Canadian visual artist and industrial designer
LaKela Brown	American artist
LaShun Beal	American Visual Artist
Melvin W. Clark	American painter and printmaker
Ming Smith	African American photographer
Oliver Jackson	American jazz drummer (1933–1994)
Richard Lewis	American painter
Robert Seldon Duncanson	African American artist (1821-1872)
Stefanie Jackson	American painter
Teka Selman	Teka Selman Born Detroit Occupation(s) visual artist, curator Employer Duke University visual artist and curator ♀
Tyree Guyton	American artist

End of auto-generated list.

Milwaukee

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Anwar Floyd-Pruitt	artist
Blanche Brown	American artist
Christopher McIntyre	American visual artist
Della Wells	artist
Evelyn Patricia Terry	American visual artist
George Tillman, Jr.	American film director
Leslie Smith III	American artist
Mikal Floyd-Pruitt	American visual artist
Milton Derr	American artist
Mutópe J. Johnson	American visual artist
Ras ‘Ammar Nsoroma	American visual artist
Vanessa German	American artist
William Joshua Blackmon	American artist (1921-2010)

End of auto-generated list.

Kansas City

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Carmen Cartiness Johnson	African American artist
Lauren Woods	American artist
Thomas Blackshear	American visual artist

End of auto-generated list.

Minneapolis

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Amir Khadar	Sierra Leonean-American Artist
Leslie Barlow	American painter
Mike Cloud	American visual artist
Nyeema Morgan	American visual artist
Ta-coumba T. Aiken	American artist

End of auto-generated list.

Wichita

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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!

Misc

Article	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Lamont Hamilton	American visual artist

End of auto-generated list.

Cleveland

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Ayana Evans	American performance artist
Bob Ragland	artist
Charles Sallee	American artist
Dana King	American television journalist and sculptor
Dorothy Dehner	American artist (1901-1994)
Jae Jarrell	American artist
John L. Moore	American visual artist
MaPo Kinnord	American artist
Phoebe Beasley	African-American artist
Rafala Green	American visual artist, activist (1940–2009)
Renée Green	American artist, writer, filmmaker
Steve Locke	American painter

End of auto-generated list.

Saint Paul

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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!

Misc

Article	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Justin Sutherland	American celebrity chef

End of auto-generated list.

Cincinnati

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Beuford Smith	American photographer
Gladys Barker Grauer	American visual artist and art educator
Jennie C. Jones	American artist
Ralph Lemon	American choreographer and visual artist
Robert Seldon Duncanson	African American artist (1821-1872)
Sharon Sutton	American architect
Terence Hammonds	American artist

End of auto-generated list.

St. Louis

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

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	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Aaron Fowler	Visual Artist
E. Simms Campbell	American cartoonist (1906-1971)
John Rozelle	John Rozelle Born -00T St. Louis Other names John E. Rozelle Occupation visual artist visual artist, artist-in-residence (*1944) ♂
Jules Arthur	American drawer, born 1970
Lyndon Barrois Jr.	American artist
Melvonna Ballenger	American film director, producer and writer
Oliver Lee Jackson	American painter
Phillip Lindsay Mason	artist
Suzanne Jackson	American artist
Tunde Adebimpe	American musician, actor, director and visual artist

End of auto-generated list.

About Black Lunch Table

Black Lunch Table (BLT) is a nonprofit organization and nineteen-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.

About Sixty Inches from Center

Sixty Inches From Center is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. We are a collective of arts workers, writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who promote and prioritize the preservation of culture within Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities of our region.

We believe that the stories of artists, cultural workers, archivists, organizers, memory workers, and writers within Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities are essential to understanding history and creating inclusive future canons that align with the more liberated and just worlds that reflect our dreams and realities. Our stories need to be preserved and promoted simultaneously, so we work with local and national archives while providing platforms and capsules for the cultural practices of our people.