Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Hack the Canon

Hack the Canon: Feminist Artists, Sabra Moore, and the Heresies Collective

Feminist wikipedia
When and Where
Event:	Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Date:	Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Time:	6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EST
Location:	Barnard College LeFrak Center (Barnard Hall) Room 113 New York, NY

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In collaboration with Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism, Barnard College Library is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around women artists and activism.

Inspired by Barnard Archives’ recent acquisition of artist Sabra Moore’s papers, this edit-a-thon offers Barnard College and the wider community a chance to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of women artists - in particular those working for social justice in the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Moore’s work with the Heresies Collective and other feminist arts organizations was groundbreaking in its expansion of feminist and political discourse in this period.

Continuing in that spirit we invite folks from within and outside the Barnard community to add the contributions of these important women - and those of other women artists - into Wikipedia. This edit-a-thon will teach the fundamentals of creating and editing in Wikipedia and increase access to scholarship surrounding the Heresies Collective and related artists. By “hacking the canon,” we aim to correct the omission of women artists, including LGBTQ artists, and artists of color from the art historical record and from general knowledge.

Event Information

• Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
• Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
• Location: Barnard College, LeFrak Center (in Barnard Hall), Lab Room 113
• Hashtag: #wikiwomenshistory #noweditingAF #hackthecanon
• Who can attend: Open to all Barnard Students, Staff, and Faculty: Open to the public with rsvp.
• What to bring: Please bring your laptop, but there will be a limited number of computers available.
• Create an account: If you haven't created a Wikipedia Account, please do so follow our Instructions

Suggested Pages to Edit

Artists

• Emma Amos
• Ida Applebroog
• Patsy Beckert
• Joan Braderman
• Alice Brill
• Camille Billops
• Maria do Carmo Secco
• Josely Carvalho
• Catherine Correa
• Christine Costan
• Colleen Cutschall
• Iole de Freitas
• Janet Froelich
• Sharon Gilbert
• Kathy Grove
• Marina Gutierrez
• Harmony Hammond
• Sue Heinemann
• Elizabeth Hess
• Kazuko Inoue
• Virginia Jaramillo
• Poppy Johnson
• Bette Kalache
• Joyce Kozloff
• Arlene Ladden
• Karin Lambrecht
• Maria Lidia Magliani
• Denise Milan
• Mary Miss
• Sabra Moore
• Helen Oji
• Lygia Pape
• Christina Parisi
• Catalina Parra
• Linda Peer
• Howardena Pindell
• Liliana Porter
• Marty Pottenger
• Lucia Py
• Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
• Faith Ringgold
• Valerie Savilli
• Amy Sillman
• Mimi Smith
• Joan Snyder
• Elkie Solomon
• Nancy Spero
• Pat Steir
• May Stevens
• Michelle Stuart
• Sophia Tassinari
• Susana Torre
• Cecilia Vicuña
• Elizabeth Weatherford
• Sally Webster
• Luise Weiss
• Holly Zox

Organizations

Women Artists in Revolution

Women’s Interart Center

RAT (newspaper)

Women’s Caucus for Art (Specifically add a section for Let MoMA Know: Women Artists Visibility Event (WAVE) 1984 protest at MoMA)

Heresies Collective

Women’s Services

Women’s Action Coalition (WAC)

Repo History

PESTS

Events

Harlem on My Mind protest

Women Artists Visibility Event (W.A.V.E.) / Let MOMA Know

Other Lists to Consider

• Black Lunch Table, List of Articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Art

Suggested Sources

Available at Barnard

• Columbia Libraries Catalog (CLIO)
• Guide to the Sabra Moore NYC Women's Art Movement Collection
• Barnard Guide to Art History Resources
  • Oxford Art Online
  • ARTBibliographies Modern
  • Art & Architecture Source

Free/Open Resources

• Bibliography of the History of Art and RILA
• Brooklyn Museum, Feminist Art Base
• Getty Research Portal
• Heresies Magazine PDF Archive (Heretic Film Project) and Archive.org
• Metropolitan Museum, Heilbrunn Timeline of the History of Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clara Database

Suggested Sources for Specific Articles/Edits

• Harlem on My Mind protest
  • 75 Artists Urge Closing of Museum's 'Insulting' Harlem Exhibit
  • Paintings Defaced at Metropolitan; One a Rembrandt
  • Hoving Accepts Onus for Furor
  • Getting Harlem Off My Mind
  • Mounting frustration: the art museum in the age of Black Power (see chapter 2, "Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitian Museum of Art")
  • Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind
  • What I Learned From a Disgraced Art Show on Harlem
  • Additional photocopied sources from the Sabra Moore collection will be available for reference.

• Addition to Women’s Caucus for Art article - Let MoMA Know: Women Artists Visibility Event (WAVE) 1984 protest at MoMA
  • Women Artists News Volume 9 No. 5-6 (multiple articles)
  • Protest at the Modern for More Women's Art
  • New York Feminist Art Institute article also has a section on the protest.
  • Additional photocopied sources from the Sabra Moore collection will be available for reference.

• PESTS (possibly a new article, or an addition to Guerrilla Girls or Howardena Pindell
  • Embodied avatars: genealogies of black feminist art and performance (see chapter 4, Is This Performance about You? for detailed discussion of PESTS)
  • PESTS, 1986 entry in Alternative Art, New York, 1965-1985
  • TATE glossary entry on PESTS
  • Additional photocopied sources from the Sabra Moore collection will be available for reference.

• Classified: Big Pages from the Heresies Collective (1983 exhibition at New Museum)
  • installation views, featured works and descriptive information
  • exhibition catalog cover
  • Issue #18 (covered in the exhibition)

Attendees

Sign up via Outreach Dashboard during the event!

• Bex1995 (talk) 23:13, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Jennaf (talk) 23:13, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Meresquared (talk) 23:14, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• MarthaTenney (talk) 23:14, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Bibliovani (talk) 23:14, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Dootdootollie (talk) 23:14, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Thisisnotmyhandle (talk) 23:14, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Jamiyla (talk) 23:15, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• ThePriceIsOk (talk) 23:15, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Ciciursa (talk) 23:25, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Outcomes

Community

• 4 New Wikipedians created
• 11 Attendees

Articles Created

• Marina Gutierrez
• Harlem on My Mind protest
• PESTS
• Sabra Moore
• Women Artists Visibility Event (W.A.V.E.) / Let MOMA Know

Articles Improved

• Colleen Cutschall
• Cecilia Vicuña ‎(2 editors worked on this article)

Relevant links

• Art+Feminism
• Wikipedia:Wikiproject Women Artists
• Keep up on future events by checking out the Wikimedia NYC Chapter meetup page.