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Black Lunch Table
@ Staten Island Museum
Black History Everyday!

Staten Island Museum Staten Island Museum
When and Where
Date:	Saturday, February 9, 2019
Time:	1:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
Address:	Staten Island Museum 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, NY take staten island ferry and take a taxi to the museum or take S40 bus from ferry to snug harbor.

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon focusing on important Staten Island history and culture of the African Diaspora from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET on Saturday, February 9, 2019 at the Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, NY. A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event. This event is free with museum admission.

A photographer will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop and a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at The Staten Island Museum will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to history and culture from the African Diaspora in Staten Island. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

Black History Everyday edit-a-thon at Staten Island Museum with Black Lunch Table.

Black History Everyday edit-a-thon at Staten Island Museum with Black Lunch Table.

Heather advises a new editor

Black History Everyday edit-a-thon at Staten Island Museum with Black Lunch Table.

About The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT), an official Wikimedia Movement Affiliate, 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.

More about BLT here.

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About the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881, the Staten Island Museum, New York City’s only general interest museum, engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions and educational programs that explore the dynamic connections between natural science, art and history based on its diverse collections. The Museum is dedicated to making its current and future collections broadly accessible for educators, students, researchers and the general public by providing authentic experiences in the field and at the Museum.

More here.

Event details

• Date: Saturday, February 9, 2019
• Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
• Location: Staten Island Museum
  1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, NY
• 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 #staten island museum
• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

• 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

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

Possible articles to edit

Staten Island

Although our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, this event will also target articles of African Diaspora history and culture of Staten Island in honor of Black History Everyday. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on.These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

• Rossville AME Zion Church
• Bishop Forge
• Wambui Ippolito
• Will (Pops) Pedro
• Captain John Jackson
• Sandy Ground Historical Museum
• Hassan Johnson
• Robin Quivers
• Tristan Wilds
• Demographics of Staten Island
• Wu-Tang Clan
• Redman (rapper)
• Inspectah Deck
• Cappadonna
• U-God
• Force MDs
• Dom Pachino
• Shyheim
• The U.M.C.'s
• Haas G
• NYOIL
• King Just
• Solomon Childs
• Staten Island Black Heritage Family Day Parade
• Karlus Trapp
• Joseph Ryerss
• Debbie-Ann Paige
• Charles Fall Assemblyman District 61
• Debi Rose Councilmember District 49
• Nella Larsen
• Elmer Imes
• Joseph Cinqué
• Louis Napoleon (Underground Railroad)
• Sydney Howard Gay
• Shiloh AME Zion Church
• Samuel A. Browne, Sr.
• Thomas W. Cardozo
• Alexander Crummell
• William H. Pitts
• Booker T. Washington
• Charlotte Forten Grimké
• Colonel Tye

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African Diaspora Visual Artists of Staten Island

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important Staten Island affiliated 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.

• 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:

• Warren Lyons
• Gabri Christa
• Donna Walker-Kuhne
• Stephen Obisanya
• Cody Prez
• Arlette Cepeda
• Lenny Prince
• Vernon Reid
• Shereese Mullings
• Sajda Musawwir Ladner
• Olu Ajayi
• Universal Temple of the Arts

New York-affiliated artists

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

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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	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Abigail DeVille	female	artist	New York City	The Bronx
Adama Delphine Fawundu	female	film maker		New York City
Adrian Piper	female	philosopher artist university teacher visual artist	New York City	Berlin New York City Cape Cod
Aisha Tandiwe Bell	female	artist		Brooklyn New York City
Albert Chong	male	photographer sculptor installation artist	Kingston	Colorado Boulder Kingston New York City San Diego
Alejandro Guzmán	male	visual artist	Vega Baja, Puerto Rico	New York City
Alex Rivera	male	cineast film director	New York City
Alicia Le'Von Boone	female	curator		New York City Brooklyn
Alva Rogers	female	writer performer actor visual artist singer puppeteer	New York City	New York City
Alvin Baltrop	male	photographer visual artist	The Bronx	New York City
Alvin D. Loving	male	painter	Detroit
Ana Mendieta	female	performance artist artist painter visual artist land artist photographer	Havana	Havana
Andre D. Wagner	male	photographer		New York City
Andrianna Campbell	female	curator art historian		New York City
Anthony Barboza	male	photographer visual artist	New Bedford	New York City
Augusta Savage	female	sculptor	Green Cove Springs	Harlem
Avel de Knight	male	painter	New York City
Ayana Evans	female	performance artist	Cleveland	New York City
Ayoka Chenzira	female	film director feminist	Philadelphia	Atlanta Philadelphia New York City
Benny Andrews	male	painter visual artist printmaker teacher	Plainview, Georgia	New York City
Betty Blayton Taylor	female	visual artist	Newport News Williamsburg	New York City
Blondell Cummings	female	dancer choreographer	Florence
Brandon Coley Cox	male	visual artist		New York City
Brendan Fernandes	male	visual artist dancer sculptor	Kenya	New York City Canada
Caitlin Cherry	female	artist painter sculptor	Chicago	New York City
Camille Billops	female	film director printmaker archivist visual artist	Los Angeles	New York City
Camilo Alvarez	male	curator gallerist	New York City	Boston
Carole Byard	female	visual artist photographer Children's book illustration	Atlantic City	Atlantic City New York City Petersburg, New Jersey Philadelphia
Carrie Hawks	female	film maker designer		New York City
Chakaia Booker	female	visual artist sculptor	Newark	New York City
Charles Alston	male	caricaturist painter sculptor visual artist	Charlotte	Harlem Charlotte
Coco Fusco	female	writer	New York City	New York City
Crystal Campbell	female	visual artist social worker		Oklahoma City New York City
Cy Gavin	male	painter visual artist		Pittsburgh New York City
Dawit Petros	male	visual artist		New York City
Dawoud Bey	male	photographer	New York City	Chicago
Dell Hamilton	female	visual artist curator	New York City	Boston
Denyse Thomasos	female	painter	Port of Spain
Derek Fordjour	male	visual artist	Memphis	New York City
Derrick Adams	male	visual artist performance artist painter sculptor curator	Baltimore	New York City Brooklyn
Edward Clark	male	painter	Storyville	New York City
EJ Hill	male		Los Angeles	New York City Los Angeles
Elia Alba	female	visual artist multimedia artist	New York City	Queens
Elizabeth Axtman	female	photographer visual artist		New York City Sacramento
Elizabeth Catlett	female	sculptor printmaker painter	Washington, D.C.	New York City Cuernavaca
Elizabeth Colomba	female	visual artist painter		New York City Épinay-sur-Seine
Emma Amos	female	painter printmaker	Atlanta	New York City Atlanta
Firelei Baez	female	visual artist	Santiago de los Caballeros	New York City
Frances Bodomo	female	film maker artist	Ghana	New York City Queens
Francisco Alvarado Juárez	male	painter visual artist photographer	Tela	New York City Honduras Washington, D.C.
Frank Bowling	male	painter visual artist	Bartica	London New York City
Fred Wilson	male	artist painter printmaker drawer	The Bronx New York City
Frederick J. Brown	male	painter visual artist	Greensboro	New York City Georgia Chicago Scottsdale
Garrett Bradley	female	film director	New York City	New Orleans
Gary Simmons	male	painter	New York City
Geo Wyeth	transgender male male	visual artist performance artist sound artist	New York City	New York City Rotterdam
Geoffrey Holder	male	actor stage actor television actor writer costume designer choreographer theatre director film actor	Port of Spain
Gia Hamilton	female	curator	New Orleans	New York City New Orleans
Gylbert Coker	female	visual artist writer art historian curator		New York City Tallahassee Thomasville
Hale Woodruff	male	painter	Cairo	Chicago Nashville Indianapolis Paris New York City
Ilana Harris-Babou	female	video artist sculptor		Williamstown New York City Vermont
James Bartlett	male	executive director		New York City Brooklyn
James E. Ferguson II	male	lawyer teacher		Charlotte New York City
Jerry Pinkney	male	illustrator	Philadelphia	Boston Philadelphia New York City
Joe Lewis	male	photographer	New York City
Joiri Minaya	female	visual artist performance artist		New York City Dominican Republic Belgium
Jordan Casteel	female	artist painter teacher	Denver	New York City
Joseph Buckley	male	sculptor visual artist	United Kingdom	New York City London
Jules T. Allen	male	photographer visual artist	San Francisco	New York City San Francisco
Juliana Huxtable	transgender female female	visual artist	Houston	New York City Bryan–College Station metropolitan area
Kabir Carter	male	artist performance art		New York City
Kay Brown	female	artist		New York City Northeast Northwest
Kevin Beasley	male	visual artist		New York City Lynchburg Astoria
Kimberly Beacot	female	artist visual artist		Brooklyn New York City Harlem
Kiyan Williams	genderqueer	performance artist	Newark	Newark New York City Stanford
Kumasi J. Barnett	male	artist		Brooklyn New York City Baltimore
Kwame Brathwaite	male	visual artist photographer activist	Brooklyn	New York City
Kwesi Abbensetts	male	photographer	Guyana	Brooklyn New York City
Kynaston McShine	male	curator	Port of Spain	New York City
Larry Rivers	male	sculptor painter saxophonist	New York City
LaToya Ruby Frazier	female	photographer	Braddock	Chicago New Brunswick New York City
Legacy Russell	female	writer visual artist	Manhattan
LeRonn Brooks	male	professor curator		New York City
LeRoy Clarke	male	artist writer	Belmont	Trinidad and Tobago New York City
Leslie Hewitt	female	artist	New York City Queens
Linda Goode Bryant	female	film director	Columbus	New York City Columbus Atlanta
Malvin Gray Johnson	male	painter	Greensboro
Manthia Diawara	male	writer film director literary critic	Bamako	New York City Paris
Marilyn Nance	female	photographer	New York City
Merton Simpson	male	painter collector art dealer	Charleston
Michael Paul Britto	male	artist	New York City	New York City
Michael Richards	male	sculptor	Jamaica
Michelle Marie Charles	female	visual artist		New York City Queens
Mildred Beltre	female	artist		Brooklyn New York City
Naomi Beckwith	female	curator		New York City Chicago
Nayland Blake	male	visual artist	New York City	Brooklyn
Niama Safia Sandy	female	curator anthropologist		Brooklyn Queens New York City
Nigel Scott	male	photographer	Kingston	Toronto Paris Tokyo New York City
Nina Chanel Abney	female	painter	Harvey	Chicago New York City
Niv Acosta	transgender male	performance artist choreographer	Manhattan	New York City Los Angeles
Noelle Théard	female	photographer teacher	El Paso	New York City El Paso Austin University Park, Florida
Norman Lewis	male	painter	Harlem
Oliver Jackson	male	jazz musician	Detroit
Otto Neals	male	painter sculptor illustrator		New York City
Pat Evans	female	model make-up artist		New York City
Peter Bradley	male	painter artist	Connellsville	New York City
Rachelle Mozman	female	visual artist	New York City
Rashid Johnson	male	photographer		Chicago New York City
Raul Acero	male	sculptor ceramist	Bogotá	Asheville Redlands New York City San Germán Albany Brooklyn
Ray Grist	male	visual artist		New York City
Raynes Birkbeck	male	visual artist painter	The Bronx	Manhattan Madrid
Reina Gossett	female transgender female	activist		New York City Massachusetts
Richard Thomas	male	film actor stage actor television actor	New York City
Richmond Barthé	male	artist sculptor	Bay St. Louis	New York City California
Robert Blackburn	male	printmaker painter lithographer visual artist	Summit	New York City
Romare Bearden	male	writer artist painter	Charlotte	New York City
Rose Piper	female	artist	New York City
Roy DeCarava	male	photographer university teacher	New York City	Bedford–Stuyvesant
Sam Middleton	male	painter	New York City
Sam Vernon	female	visual artist	Brooklyn	New York City Oakland Queens
Sanford Biggers	male	artist	Los Angeles	New York City Harlem
Sarah Michelle Brown	female	writer film director actor film producer	Toronto	Toronto New York City
Selma Burke	female	sculptor visual artist	Mooresville	New York City
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina	female	artist		Brooklyn New York City
Susan Robeson	female	visual artist film maker		New York City
Tahir Hemphill	male	multimedia artist	New York City	New York City Queens
Vivian E. Browne	female	painter graphic designer illustrator visual artist	Laurel	New York City
Walter Jackson	male	visual artist Sculptor professor	Durant	Durant Memphis New York City
Wangechi Mutu	female	artist painter	Nairobi	Nairobi Kenya New York City
William Kitt	male	visual artist		New York City
William Pope.L	male	painter performance artist visual artist	Newark	New York City New Jersey Chicago
Xaviera Simmons	female	artist photographer	New York City
Xenobia Bailey	female	fashion designer visual artist		New York City

End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

Where to start...

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

Outcomes

Extended content
Alphabetical by first letter denotes Infobox added  Pages improved Pages created Sandbox articles started Wikidata items improved Wikidata items created Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

Metrics

Extended content
Outreach Dashboard Articles Created: 4 Articles Edited: 39 Total Edits: 198 Editors: 14 Words Added: 4.28k Article Views: 10.5k Commons Uploads:17

References

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Heathart (talk) 17:42, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 11:14, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
• Fishantena (talk) 17:56, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Lioness31 (talk) 19:43, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Artmonger18 (talk) 19:43, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Wikisiplayer (talk) 19:44, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Gokuren (talk) 19:44, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Pharos (talk) 19:51, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• ItsMySky (talk) 19:45, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Lumiwa408 (talk) 19:45, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Lizardscientist5555 (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Button.G.Bones (talk) 19:47, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Abeni2 (talk) 19:54, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
• Jeremyb (talk) 19:55, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

• Artatra (talk) 21:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

• Geffrard erlin (talk) 18:59, 5 April 2019 (UTC)