Art + Feminism Mia Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. This lack of female participation has led to an alarming deficiency of content about women and art in the world’s most popular online research tool.
But you can help!
Join us for an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: an afternoon of communal Wikipedia editing related to art, art history, and feminism.
Art+Feminism is a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, and to encourage female editorship.
Bring your laptop and ideas for entries to create or improve. Editors of all genders, ages, and abilities are welcome. We’ll have free wifi and treats for particpants.
Library resources will be on hand for researching artists in the museum’s collection. The library will be open Thursday evenings October 1, 8, 15 & 22 for research in preparation for submission of new material or to set up a Wikipedia personal account if you don’t already have one.
Below is a list of artists that would benefit from edits, expansion, or new entries during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. These names are drawn from women artists represented in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Research and write ahead of the event, and come Saturday to post.
This list of women artists from Mia’s collection will have images from our museum in Wikimedia Commons by the day of the event. These images can be added to an existing or a newly created article in Wikipedia about the artist.
Anna Atkins, English, 1799–1871
Ann Bateman, British, 1748–1813
Hester Bateman, British, 1708–1794
Gudrun Baudisch, Austrian, 1906–1982
Jessie Tarbox Beals, American (born Canada), 1870–1942
Attributed to Mary Beilby, British, 1749–1797
Rosa Bonheur, French, 1822–1899
Alice Boughton, American, 1865–1943
Anne Brigman, American, 1869–1950
Priscilla Susan Bury, British, 1799–1872
Julia Margaret Cameron, British (born India), 1815–1879
Maria Christina Campana, Italian, 1756–1811
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844–1926
Agnes Winterbottom Cooney, American, 1878–1940
Mary Devens, American, c.1857–1920
Sarah J. Eddy, American, 1851–1945
Saiko Ema, Japanese, 1787–1861
Audrey Flack, American, born 1931
Elizabeth Godfrey, English, active 1731–c. 1758
Eva Gonzalès, French, 1847–1883
Elizabeth Gould, British, 1804–1841
Sarah Hardisty, Dene, born 1923
Kate Harris, English, active c. 1899–1905
Harriet Hosmer, American, 1830–1908
Clementine Hunter, American, 1885–1988
Gertrude Käsebier, American, 1852–1934
Kiyohara Yukinobu, Japanese, 1643–1682
Evelyn Beatrice Longman, American, 1874–1954
Bertha Lum, American, 1869–1954
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scottish, 1865–1933
Maria Martinez, American (San Ildefonso Pueblo), 1886–1980
Maria Sibylla Merian, German, 1647–1717
Tina Modotti, Mexican (born Italy), 1896–1942
Marie-Joséphine-Angélique Mongez, French, 1775–1855
Esther Moore, English, active 1890–1911
Berthe Morisot, French, 1841–1895
Emmy Roth, German, 1885–1942
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian, 1897–2000
Florine Stettheimer, American, 1871–1944
Elizabeth Twining, British, 1805–1889
Doris Ulmann, American, 1882–1934
Suzanne Valadon, French, 1865–1938
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French, 1755–1842
Gisela Falke von Lilienstein, Austrian, born 1871
Eva Watson-Schütze, American, 1867–1935
Free, tickets required. To register, call (612) 870-6323 or reserve online.