Art+Feminism

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Art+Feminism
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Status Active
Frequency Annually
Location(s) 70 venues in 17 countries (2015)
Years active 10
Inaugurated February 1, 2014 (2014-02-01)
Most recent March 4, 2016 (2016-03-04)
Attendance 1,300 (2015)
Website
art.plusfeminism.org

Art and Feminism (stylized as Art+Feminism) is an annual worldwide edit-a-thon to add content to Wikipedia about female artists. The project, founded by Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, and Laurel Ptak,[1] has been described as "a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men".[2]

In 2014, Art+Feminism's inaugural campaign attracted 600 volunteers at 30 separate events.[1][2] The following year, 1,300 volunteers attended 70 events in 17 countries, on four continents.[1]

Establishment

Art+Feminism started when Artstor librarian Siân Evans was designing a project for women and art at for the Art Libraries Society of North America.[3] Evans talked with fellow curator Jacqueline Mabey, who had been impressed by Wikipedia contributors' organization of edit-a-thon events to commemorate Ada Lovelace.[3] Mabey spoke with Michael Mandiberg, a professor at the City University of New York who had been incorporating Wikipedia into classroom learning. Mandiberg in turn talked with Laurel Ptak, a fellow at the art and technology non-profit Eyebeam, who agreed to help plan the event.[3] The team then recruited local Wikipedians Dorothy Howard, then Wikipedian in residence at Metropolitan New York Library Council; and Richard Knipel, then representing the local chapter of Wikipedia contributors through Wikimedia New York City.[3]

One reason for establishing the Art+Feminism project included responding to negative media coverage about Wikipedia's cataloging system.[4] The project continues to fill content gaps in Wikipedia and increase the number of female contributors.[5][6]

Events

Video from an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon at the Museum of Modern Art, 2015

Outside the United States, the 2015 event received media coverage at locations including Australia,[7] Canada,[8] Cambodia,[9] India,[10] New Zealand,[11] and Scotland.[12] Inside the United States the event received media coverage at the flagship location in New York,[13] and also in California,[14][15] Kansas,[16] Pennsylvania,[17] Texas,[18] and West Viriginia.[19]

Reception

Content contributed by participants in the editing events is tracked in a coordinating forum on Wikipedia.[20]

In November 2014 Foreign Policy magazine named Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Richard Knipel, Dorothy Howard, and Laurel Ptak as "global thinkers" for addressing gender bias on Wikipedia.[21]

References

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External links

  • Official website
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