Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/ArtAndFeminism 2015
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Event Information
- Date: Saturday, February 28, 2015 from 12:15pm to 4 p.m. (Library does not open until 12.00)
- Venue: University of the Arts, Albert M. Greenfield Library, Anderson Hall, 333 South Broad Street
- Cost: Free
- Accessibility: Unfortunately the area where we will be working is not a fully handicapped accessible space. Participants will need to be able to go up and down stairs. You will be asked to present ID and sign it at the security desk.
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username below! If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
- PLEASE NOTE: Non-UArts participants must contact the library in advance to arrange entry to the building: email Sara MacDonald at [email protected]
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Please create your Wikipedia account prior to the session.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
- Facebook: Facebook page
Registration
Please register, to help us to better assess the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. You can add your Wikipedia username to the section below by saving four tildes [~] in a row. Wikipedia will fill in your user name, the date and time.
If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you create a Wikipedia account on the day of the event, but it is helpful if you can do this in advance.
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:11, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Sjmacd (talk) 19:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC)- Dorevabelfiore (talk) 15:07, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- Caitlinshanley (talk) 19:42, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- Kmdevoe (talk) 02:45, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- BettyLondon (talk) 03:32, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- GSMaklary (talk) 19:42, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- User:Sjm8364
- User:ECMutt
- User:Madelinestanton463
- User:YagerEtc
- User:sgantt
- User:agantt1
- User:sal651
- User:JenBrown13 (remotely on March 7 from Philadelphia)
- User:kelseyhalliday (remotely on March 7 from Philadelphia)
- John Mark Ockerbloom (remotely on March 8 from Philadelphia)
- Thnidu (talk) 22:01, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Possible articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. You can help us by adding to this list of ideas!
- See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
- See also: List of women artists in the Armory Show
Women artists who worked in Philadelphia
Here are a few names of women artists who worked in Philadelphia, for inspiration:
- Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926)
- Cox-McCormack, Nancy (1885-1967)
- Deshong-Woodbridge, Louise (1848-1925)
- Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – 1954)
- Esté, Florence (1860-1926)
- Frishmuth, Harriet Whitney (1880-1980)
- Janvier, Catharine A. (Catharine Ann) (May 1, 1841- July 19, 1922)[1], an artist who was the first woman teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and first teacher to Cecilia Beaux
- Martinez-Cañas, Maria (b1960)
- Lederer, Nanette - Working on Nanette Lederer Calder - --DThomsen8(talk) 16:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Lowry, Susan (b1953)
- Maamoun, Maha (b1972)
- Mezzara, Angélique (d1868)[2][3] – working, at Draft:Angélique Mezzara --Thnidu (talk) 22:03, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
- Minich, Anne (b1934)
- Moore, Susan (b1953)
- Neel, Alice (1900-1984)
- Richardson, Constance Coleman (1905-2002)
- Roberts, Elizabeth Wentworth (1871-1927)[4][5]
- Rogers, Mary (1882–1920)
- Schaechter, Judith
- Schaff, Barbara (b1941)
- Sharples, Ellen (1769-1849)
- Steinhauser, Judith H. (b1941)
- Weil, Mathilde (1872-1918)
- Diane Burko
- Alice Oh[6]
Resources for Editing
- Art+ Feminism Beginner Training Videos Part 1 , Part 2, and Part 3
- Wikipedia:Training/For students
- ArtAndFeminism Organizer How-to
- Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
- Gender gap resources
Edit-a-thon Outcomes
For reporting back to ArtAndFeminism, we should report the following activities. Please list outcomes in the appropriate sections, and sign with 4 tildes ~!
Number of attendees
FourteenSixteen editors participated in-person and online.
New articles
It was so much fun creating new articles that people kept creating them... and creating them...
- Nancy Cox-McCormack - Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- Rebecca Kamen - Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- Chrissy Conant - Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- Alix Pearlstein - BettyLondon (talk) 20:16, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sarah McEneaney - Kelseyhalliday (talk) 20:38, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
- Jane Irish - Kelseyhalliday (talk) 20:38, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
- Elizabeth Osborne - Kelseyhalliday (talk) 22:59, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
- Kim Alsbrooks - JenBrown13 7 March 2015
- Ellen Francis Mason - John Mark Ockerbloom 8 March 2015
- Becky Birtha - Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:36, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
- Deborah Berebichez - Dorevabelfiore (talk) 24 March 2015
Drafts started in sandbox
People practiced editing in their sandboxes, beginning to develop possible articles or just trying out editing with an artist they knew. Everyone is invited to bring their computers to the next GLAM Café, March 10, 2015, where they can continue to develop their articles.
- Betty Cooke Sandbox
- Margaret Diehl Sandbox
- Maria Dumlao Sandbox
- Maria Martinez-Cañas Sandbox
- Nanette Lederer Calder Sandbox
- Angélique Mezzara (article deleted)
Articles expanded or improved
- Kim Victoria Abeles
- Adela Akers
- Diane Burko
- Mary Cassatt
- Patty Chang
- Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
- Elizabeth Shippen Green
- Mary Rogers
- Alice Neel
- Violet Oakley
- Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
- Joyce J. Scott
- Society of Independent Artists
- Clara Sorensen
- Martha Walter
- Edith Watson
New user accounts
Three new user accounts were created at the event.
Images released
Photographs by Edith S. Watson from "Mothers of Canada" in The Touchstone, v.1 1917, p. 392-397.
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"A Canadian Gardener at the edge of a Cape Breton village"
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"Along the Shore at Cape Breton Canada"
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"In a Canadian Garden"
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"Resting in her garden in northern Canada"
Photographs by Edith S. Watson from "Democracy and Working Women: Their intimate relation revealed by the war" by Marguerite Wilkinson, The Touchstone, volume 3, April-September, 1918, pp. 242-248.
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"Dried berries being packed away for winter luxuries"
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"Weeding beans on a Dutch truck farm outside Winnipeg, Manitoba"
Photographs by Edith S. Watson from "The Madonna of the Fields" by Vivian Johannes, in The Touchstone, 1919, Volume 6, pp. 98-102.
Photographs by Edith S. Watson from "The Coral Houses" by Nancy Woods Wallburn, in The Touchstone, 1919, Volume 6, p. 231-237.
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Flower jars of carved coral, Bermuda
Event photos
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Editor Doreva Belfiore in her Wikipedia Hat at the University of the Arts
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Editors at the University of the Arts
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Mary Mark Ockerbloom teaching Wikipedia to Editors at Arts and Feminism 2015 at the University of the Arts.
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Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, teaching Wikipedia for the Philadelphia Arts and Feminism edit-a-thon at the University of the Arts
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Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, leading the Philadelphia Arts and Feminism edit-a-thon.
News coverage
- Philly edit-a-thon seeks to close Wiki gender gap, Steve Trader, WHYY, February 27, 2015
- Edit-a-thon helps close Wikipedia's gender gap (photos), Steve Trader, WHYY, March 3, 2015
- ^ Blamires, Steve (2013). The little book of the great enchantment. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Skylight Press. ISBN 978-1908011831. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Van der Stighelen, Katlijne. "A Self-Portrait by Francesco Mezzara (1774–1845), the Italian Painter Who Changed New York State Constitutional Law with a Pair of Ass's Ears". Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "Salon Record". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "About: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts". Concord Art Associatioin. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "Creating a Legacy: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts and Concord Art Association". Concord Art Association. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ Alice Oh