Black Lunch Table
@ Fisher Fine Arts Library, UPenn

Fisher Fine Arts Library
When and Where
Date:	Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Time:	12:30 PM EST- 4 EST
Address:	220 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon at University of Pennsylvania's Fisher Fine Arts Library focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 from 12:30 PM-4 PM. A training session will be held at the beginning but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

A special pop up photo studio will be hosted by Taj DeVore-Bey to take free portraits for Wikipedia and document the event.

Please bring your laptop so you can join the editing and bring a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project 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. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

History of The Black Lunch Table[edit]

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) 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 13 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.

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About Fisher Fine Arts Library[edit]

The Fisher Fine Arts Library supports study, teaching and research in contemporary and historical aspects of art, architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, landscape architecture, studio art, and urban design. Text and image collections, in analog and digital form, have a global reach and concentrate on the arts of the western experience, Islam, South Asia and East Asia, from prehistory to the present. Our digital and print resources are designed to meet the needs of students and faculty of the departments, schools and programs of the University of Pennsylvania.

• Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
• Time: 12:30 PM - 4 PM
• Location: Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
  
• 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

• Presentation / overview
• Editing time
• Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for edit-a-thon 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

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

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important visual artists of the African Diaspora associated with UPenn who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know 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!

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

• suggest names here
• Eric G. Pryor
• Rashayla Marie Brown
• Barbara Earl Thomas
• Jamal Cyrus
• Dindga McCannon
• Ashley Jones, Indiana U of PA
• Nsenga Knight
• Joy O. Ude
• Odili Donald Odita
• Keith Anthony Morrison
• Stanley Whitney
• Karyn Olivier
• Jennifer Packer
• Linda Earle
• William Villalongo
• Deborah Grant (artist)
• M. Asli Dukan
• Erlin Geffrard
• James Maurelle
• Dane Tilghman
• Andre Guichard
• Richard Watson (artist)
• Louis Massiah
• Syd Carpenter
• The African American Museum in Philadelphia
• Ernel Martinez
• Wilmer Wilson IV
• James Atkins (b. 1941)
• Morris Atkinson Blackburn
• James Brantley (b. 1945)*
• Barbara Bullock
• Brandywine Workshop
• Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr.
• Donald Eugene Camp (b. 1940)
• Syd Carpenter (b. 1953)
• Reba Dickerson-Hill (1919–1994)
• James Dupree
• Walter Edmonds (1938– 2011)
• Barkley L. Hendricks
• Louise Clement Hoff, (b. 1926)
• Robert L. Jefferson (1929-2014)
• LeRoy Johnson (b. 1937)
• Ida Jones (1874–1959)
• John W. Mosley
• Raymond Saunders (b. 1934)
• Charles Searles
• Louise B Sloan (1932–2008)
• Ellen Powell Tiberino (1938–1992)
• Howard N Watson (b. 1929)
• Stanley Whitney (b. 1946)
• Richard J. Watson (b. 1946)

Artists associated with Philadelphia[edit]

Article	description	Place	start time	end time	coordinate location	image
Aaron Fowler	Visual Artist
Allan L. Edmunds	American artist
Ayanah Moor	American artist
Ayoka Chenzira	American filmmaker
Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter	Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter Born -21T00:00: Philadelphia Other names Aziza Gibson-Hunter, Claudia "Aziza" Gibson-Hunter, Claudia Gibson-Hunter Alma mater Temple University, Howard University Occupation visual artist visual artist (*1954) ♀; member of Where We At
Barbara Bullock	African American painter, collagist, printmaker, soft sculptor and arts instructor
Barbara Chase-Riboud	African American artist
Barkley L. Hendricks	African American painter
Black Quantum Futurism	Artist collective
Carole Byard	American visual artist, illustrator and photographer
Carolyn Lazard	American artist, born 1987
Charles Burwell	American Visual Artist
Charles Searles	African American artist
Claude Clark	African American painter
David Antonio Cruz	American artist
David Hartt	visual artist
Deborah Grant	American artist
Deborah Willis	African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography
Demetrius Oliver	American artist
Devan Shimoyama	Visual Artist
Didier William	visual artist
Donald Camp	African American photographer
E. Jane	American new media artist
Ellen Powell Tiberino	African American artist
Emmett Wigglesworth	American painter
Erlin Geffrard	visual artist
Ernel Martinez	Belizean-American artist
Fatima Togbe	Nigerian Business person
Floyd Newsum	African American artist
Henry Ossawa Tanner	African-American painter (1859–1937)
Howardena Pindell	African American artist
Huey Copeland	art historian
Jacolby Satterwhite	visual artist
Jamal Cyrus	American visual artist
James Brantley	African American artist
James Maurelle	visual artist
Jeanne Raynal	Jeanne Raynal Born Philadelphia Occupation visual artist visual artist ♀
Jennifer Packer	American artist
Jerry Pinkney	American writer and children's book illustrator (1939–2021)
Jessica Vaughn	American visual artist
Jina Valentine	American artist
John E. Dowell Jr.	American artist (born 1941)
Judson Powell	American visual artist, musician, and community activist
Julian Abele	African American architect
Kara Springer	Canadian visual artist and industrial designer
Laura Wheeler Waring	African American painter
Louis B. Sloan	African American artist
Louis Cameron	American Visual Artist
Louise Clement-Hoff	American artist (1926-2020)
M. Asli Dukan	American filmmaker
Manthia Diawara	film director
Mavis Pusey	Jamaican-American artist (1928-2019)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller	American artist (1877–1968)
Moe Brooker	African American artist
Morris Blackburn	American painter
Naima Green	Naima Green Born Philadelphia Occupation photographer photographer ♀
Njideka Akunyili Crosby	Nigerian-American visual artist
Nsenga Knight	visual artist
Nyeema Morgan	American visual artist
Odili Donald Odita	Nigerian-American artist
Pat Ward Williams	American photographer
Paul F. Keene Jr.	American artist (1920-2009)
Pheoris West	American artist
Phil Freelon	American architect
Rachelle Mozman	visual artist
Raymond Steth	African American artist
Reba Dickerson-Hill	African American artist and educator who lived and worked in Philadelphia.
Regenia Alfreda Perry	first African American woman to hold doctorates in art history and American art
Rex Goreleigh	artist
Roland Ayers	African American artist (1932-2014)
Rosae M. Reeder	artist
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr.	African American artist
Shikeith	Artist
Simmie Knox	American painter
Sosena Solomon	filmmaker
Stanley Burnside	Bahamian painter and cartoonist
Stanley K. Whitney	African American artist
Syd Carpenter	African American artist
Sébastien Derenoncourt	graphic designer
Terry Adkins	American visual artist
Tiona Nekkia McClodden	visual artist
Trenton Doyle Hancock	African American artist
Walter Edmonds	American artist
Weldon Butler	American artist
William Villalongo	American visual artist
Wilmer Wilson IV	American artist
Zun Lee	Canadian photographer

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