WPPA was piloted by students participating in the Fall 2009 IUPUI Museum Studies Course MSTD-A416/A516. Students identified all of the public artworks on and nearby the IUPUI campus and then created articles about 40 individual public artworks, thereby creating the IUPUI Public Art Collection. The students created an article template, added GPS coordinates to all artworks in the collection, and engaged Wikipedia editors in discussions about original research, notability, and categories.
For a first-hand account of the project, read Elizabeth Basile's blog post"On New Beginnings; or How Wikipedia Can Help us all Care for Public Art" on the MA's blog.
Main Wikipedia article: Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Public Art Collection
Articles created:
Anatomy Vessels (Saplings) · Antenna Man · Barrow · Broken Walrus I · Cancer... There's Hope · DNA Tower · East Gate/West Gate · Entangled · Eve · Give and Take · Glory · The Herron Arch 1 · Indiana Limestone · Jammin' on the Avenue · Job · Luminary · Mega-Gem · Mother's Helper · Orange Curves · Peirce Geodetic Monument · Portrait of History · Procession of Ants · Reunion · Spaces with Iron · Spirit Keeper · Table of Contents · Temple VI · Torso Fragment · Untitled (Bucket of Rocks) · Untitled (Cary Chapman) · Untitled (Faces) · Untitled (IUPUI Letters) · Untitled (Jazz Musicians) · Weather Tower · Wind Leaves · Wood Fountain · Zephyr
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