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Black Lunch Table
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When and Where
Date:Saturday, December 22, 2018
Time:12-3PM
Address:National Gallery of Jamaica
12 Ocean Blvd, Block C, entrance is on Orange Street
Kingston, Jamaica
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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented Jamaican visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Saturday, December 22, 2018 at the National Gallery of Jamaica (12 Ocean Blvd, Block C, entrance is on Orange Street, Kingston, Jamaica). A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

Photographer, Kearra Amaya Gopee, artist in residence at New Local Space, will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop and a friend! If you have a hotspot to share, bring that too! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description edit

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Jamaican artists from the African Diaspora, artists of the African Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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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The National Gallery of Jamaica edit

The National Gallery of Jamaica, which was established in 1974, is the oldest and largest public art museum in the Anglophone Caribbean. It has a comprehensive collection of early, modern and contemporary art from Jamaica along with smaller Caribbean and international holdings. A significant part of its collections is on permanent view. The NGJ also has an active exhibition programme, which includes retrospectives of work by major Jamaican artists, thematic exhibitions, guest-curated exhibitions, touring exhibitions that originate outside of the island, and its flagship exhibition, the Jamaica Biennial. The NGJ offers a range of educational services, including guided tours, lectures and panel discussions, and children’s art programmes and also operates a gift shop and coffee shop. more here

Event details edit

  • Date: Saturday, December 22, 2018
  • Time: 12-3pm
  • Location:The National Gallery of Jamaica
  • 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

Agenda edit

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

Uploading photos edit

Possible articles to edit edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important Jamaican visual artists of the African Diaspora 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:




Jamaica-affiliated artists edit

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

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 Gender Occupation Place of birth Residence
Albert Artwell male graphic designer
painter
Saint James Parish Jamaica
Albert Chong male photographer
sculptor
installation artist
university teacher
academic
Kingston Colorado
Boulder
Kingston
New York City
San Diego
Albert Huie male painter Falmouth
Jamaica
Allan Zion male visual artist
painter
Kingston
Saint Andrew Parish
Ato Seitu male visual artist Kingston Toronto
Barrington Watson male painter
writer
Lucea
Basil Watson male sculptor
Busejé Bailey female visual artist
teacher
video artist
television producer
Jamaica Halifax
Toronto
Camille Chedda female visual artist
sculptor
painter
Manchester Jamaica
Camille Turner female performance artist
curator
teacher
Kingston Toronto
Carl Abrahams male painter
Carol Crichton female artist Kingston
Cecil Cooper male visual artist
Charlie Phillips male photographer
restaurateur
Jamaica
Christopher González male sculptor
painter
Kingston
Cosmo Whyte male visual artist Jamaica Atlanta
Montego Bay
Dave McKenzie male visual artist Kingston
Jamaica
Brooklyn
Queens
David Pottinger male painter
Dawn Scott female visual artist
designer
Mandeville Jamaica
Deborah Anzinger female visual artist
sculptor
painter
Kingston Jamaica
Dionne Simpson female visual artist Jamaica Toronto
Donnette Zacca female photographer Kingston
Dorothy Henriques-Wells female visual artist
watercolorist
painter
art educator
Saint Andrew Parish Miami
Toronto
Washington, D.C.
Barbados
Ebony G. Patterson female artist
visual artist
painter
installation artist
Kingston Kingston
Lexington
Chicago
Errol Lloyd male sculptor
artist
Lucea
Esther Anderson female photographer
film director
actor
model
film actor
Highgate
Eugene Palmer male painter Kingston
Evadney Cruickshank male painter
Hope Brooks female painter
Jacqueline Bishop female poet
visual artist
writer
photographer
Kingston
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan female visual artist
jeweler
sculptor
Saint Andrew Parish Maraval
Trinidad and Tobago
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow female performance artist
visual artist
multimedia artist
Manchester Parish
Jamaica
Queens
John Dunkley male sculptor
painter
Savanna-la-Mar
Judith Salmon female painter
K. Khalfani Ra male visual artist Kingston Kingston
Katrina Coombs female visual artist
textile artist
Kingston Saint Andrew Parish
Leasho Johnson male artist
visual artist
Montego Bay
Lindsay Barrett male journalist
novelist
photographer
poet
playwright
Lucea
Lorna Goodison female poet
artist
writer
university teacher
Kingston
Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds male painter
sculptor
Saint Catherine Parish
Margaret Rose Vendryes female visual artist
academic
exhibition curator
curator
Kingston Queens
Marlene Lewis-Weinberger female visual artist
art director
multimedia artist
Kingston
Marlon James male photographer Kingston Trinidad and Tobago
Mavis Pusey female artist
painter
printmaker
Saint Mary Parish
Jamaica
Michael Chambers male photographer Kingston
Michael Elliott male painter Manchester Parish
Milton George male painter
Namba Roy male writer Jamaica
Nigel Scott male photographer Kingston Toronto
Paris
Tokyo
New York City
Norma Rodney Harrack female visual artist
ceramicist
Kingston
Omari S. Ra male painter
sculptor
Kingston
Oneika Russell female visual artist Kingston
Osmond Watson male sculptor
painter
Kingston
Pearl Alcock female artist Jamaica
Petrona Morrison female sculptor
Phillip Supersad male sculptor
musician
Kingston
Phillip Thomas male painter Kingston
Rafiki Kariuki male visual artist
Ras Daniel Heartman male painter
visual artist
Kingston
Jamaica
Ras Dizzy Livingston male visual artist
painter
Kingston
Renée Cox female photographer
new media artist
Jamaica New York City
Ronald Moody male sculptor
dentist
Kingston
Ruddy Roye male photographer Jamaica Bedford–Stuyvesant
Ruth Brown female painter
Sekou Cooke male architect
university teacher
academic
researcher
Syracuse
Shoshanna Weinberger female visual artist Kingston
Stafford Schliefer male painter Kingston
Storm Saulter male film director Jamaica
Tamara Natalie Madden female painter
Tiffany Smith female photographer
visual artist
Nassau
Jamaica
Brooklyn
Miami
Wade Hudson male photographer Jamaica Toronto
Wayne Salmon male visual artist Jamaica
Wilfred Limonious male illustrator
Winsom Winsom female visual artist Jamaica
End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources edit

Where to start...
 
  1. Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different!
  2. Follow instructions to upload your images here...
  • Create or update Wikidata!
Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
  1. Go to Wikidata
  2. Read Wikidata's Introduction!
  3. Search for the person or subject
  4. If none exists, you can 'Create a new item'
  5. Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal.
  6. To add a field, click 'Add Statement'
Wikidata + AuthorityControl
  • Create or update Authority Control!
Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)
  1. Go to VIAF.org
  2. Search for person (last name, first name)
  3. At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example
  4. Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
  5. Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories
  6. Refresh Wikipedia page
  • Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes edit

Extended content
Alphabetical by first letter

denotes Infobox added 

Pages improved
Pages created
  1. Basil Watson
Sandbox articles started
  1. Deborah Anzinger
  2. Alison Dawn Scott
Wikidata items improved


Wikidata items created
Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

Metrics edit

Extended content
Outreach Dashboard
  • Articles Created: 0
  • Articles Edited: 2
  • Total Edits:78
  • Editors: 11
  • Words Added: 55
  • Article Views: 5
  • Commons Uploads: 0

References edit

External links edit

Attendees edit