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Black Lunch Table
@ UMBC, CIRCA

When and Where
Date:	Monday, October 9th, 2020
Time:	1-4pm EST
Address:	Please RSVP on Eventbrite

Please RSVP on Eventbrite for the Meet link.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an Editing Workshop, an *online* edit-a-thon with UMBC CIRCA, on October 9th, 2020 at 1pm EST. We will learn about how to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black visual artists. An introduction with a brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon along with some context for the BLT project. We will have resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. RSVP on Eventbrite here.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration founded by artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill gaps in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 15 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 creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. 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.

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Want to know even more about BLT? Watch THIS short intro video!

About CIRCA

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) is an interdisciplinary research center of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC dedicated to promoting inquiry and experimentation in and across the Arts disciplines. CIRCA supports innovative project-based research in the Arts, encompassing Dance, Music, Theatre, and the Visual Arts, by faculty, students, and visiting scholars, and promotes the development of interdisciplinary and collaborative projects that advance research in the Arts. CIRCA is committed to enhancing the local, national, and global reputation of the Arts at UMBC and to fostering innovative research and diverse viewpoints through hosting guest lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and sponsoring performances. UMBC CIRCA

Event details and Agenda

 Date: October 9th, 2020
 Time: 1-4 pm EST
 Location: 

Event Agenda:

• Presentation for review, Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation
• Editing time
• Goals:

-Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia)

Sign in to the event with the big blue button:

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

-Create user page with at least one sentence

-Signin to Wikipedia edit-a-thon meetup page

-Make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page

Who should attend: UMBC communities! Also artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
What to Bring: Enthusiasm and focus 
Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what each of us are working on

Uploading photos

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

Possible articles to edit

You may edit any article you wish and we encourage you to select an article that is historically marginalized. This following event-specific lists (→) of suggested articles focus on notable alumni of University of Maryland of the Black diaspora. Please add a name if you know of someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
•   denotes Infobox is needed

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

This is a link to Drafting Articles.

List of notable African American alumni and faculty of UMBC

go here

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

• Myrtis Bedolla
• Theresa Chromati
• Amy Sherald
• Lehna Huie
• Maren Hassinger
• Oletha DeVane
• Ada Pinkston
• Schroeder Cherry
• Phylicia Ghee
• Kibibi Ajanku

Baltimore area visual artists of the Black Diaspora

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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	Educated_at	Employer
Acha Debela	teacher	Ahmadu Bello University Morgan State University Maryland Institute College of Art Ohio State University
Albert Huie	painter	OCAD University University of Toronto Camberwell College of Arts
Antonio McAfee	visual artist photographer	Corcoran College of Art and Design
Clifford Owens	artist
Derrick Adams	visual artist performance artist painter sculptor art exhibition curator	Pratt Institute Columbia University Columbia University School of the Arts	Maryland Institute College of Art
Jacolby Satterwhite	visual artist video artist performance artist animator	University of Pennsylvania School of Design Maryland Institute College of Art
James A. Porter	art historian historian painter	University of Paris Howard University New York University
Joyce J. Scott	artist jewellery designer	Maryland Institute College of Art Rochester Institute of Technology
Kumasi J. Barnett	artist	University of Maryland, Baltimore Ohio State University
Mequitta Ahuja	painter artist visual artist	Hampshire College University of Illinois at Chicago
Nettrice Gaskins	digital artist university teacher	Pratt Institute Art Institute of Chicago Georgia Institute of Technology	Boston Arts Academy
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum	artist	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Maryland Institute College of Art	Maryland Institute College of Art
Roland Freeman	photographer art historian
Shinique Smith	artist	Tufts University Maryland Institute College of Art
Zoë Charlton	artist teacher	University of Texas at Austin Florida State University

End of auto-generated list.

Attendees

• 73.133.95.151 (talk) 13:46, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
• 2601:14D:4100:8100:C812:C174:C6B9:6CF8 (talk) 13:58, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
• SSShae47 (talk) 17:05, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
• Fishantena (talk) 17:49, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Heathart (talk) 18:09, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Hermithrush (talk) 18:09, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Oryx1991 (talk) 18:09, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Mileseh (talk) 18:10, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Lucesike (talk) 18:10, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Safrofuturism (talk) 18:26, 9 October 2020 (UTC)