Wikipedia:Meetup/University Park/ArtAndFeminism/The Pennsylvania State University
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| When and Where | |
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| Date: | Friday, March 27, 2026 |
| Time: | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT |
| Online Address: | Free registration here to join via Zoom |
Event information
[edit]- Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT
- Location: Free registration here to join via Zoom
- Hosts: The Pennsylvania State University Art Education Program in the School of Visual Arts & the Graduate Art Education Association.
Launched in 2014, Art+Feminism is a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, and to encourage feminist editorship. On March 27, 2026, in honor of Women's History Month, join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on feminist artists, feminist curatorial practices, feminist art pedagogy, and other subjects related to contemporary art/architecture/visual culture and feminism absent from Wikipedia.
Schedule: Friday, March 27, 2026
[edit]- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm: Gather at Penn State's Arts Cottage (2nd floor) or online via Zoom. Throughout the day, enjoy refreshments, lunch, and informal conversation. Also, learn to edit Wikipedia or visit to support this effort. Invited scholars will highlight missing and misinformed areas on Wikipedia to focus collective endeavors to edit at the times listed below.
- 10:00 am: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D., Penn State Professor of Art Education and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Penn State, presents: "What Would a Truly Feminist Internet Look Like?" Learn history, goals, and theme of Art+Feminism Wikistorming, and how to edit Wikipedia.
- 11:00 am: Ann Holt, Ph.D., Penn State Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and Simone Roy, Brand Strategist and Designer, present "Sisters at Law: The Advocacy and Art of Marini De Livera."
- 11:30 am: Aatiqa Sheikh (she/her), Penn State art education doctoral student, presents “Invisible Bodies: Climate Justice & Politics of Care." Editing 2022 Pakistan floods.
- 12:00 pm: LUNCH in 207 Arts Cottage coordinated by Penn State Graduate Art Education Association (GAEdA) leadership: Youngjoo Kim. Sponsored by Art + Feminism.
- 1:00 pm: Pin-Hsuan Tseng (曾品璇), Penn State Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education with minors in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Curriculum and Instruction; and Tze-Ning Hong (洪芷寧), Erasmus University Rotterdam Ph.D. Candidate in the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, presents “Feminist Tenting Across Borders." Editing Transnational Feminism and Tent.
- 1:30 pm: Youngjoo Kim, Penn State Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, presents "Beyond Obsession: Lighting Feminist and Political Activism in K-pop Fan Culture." Editing Impact and popularity of K-pop.
- 2:00 pm: Yi-Ning Zhao, Penn State Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, presents "Contesting Chinese Feminine Beauty Ideals with Monstrous Aesthetics." Editing Chinese ideals of female beauty and Feminine Beauty Ideal in China.
- 2:30 pm: Ilayda Altuntas (she/her), University of Arizona Assistant Professor of Art Education, Penn State alumna, presents "Listening as Feminist Method: Sound, Voice, and Wikipedia’s Silences." Editing biographical entries of women sound artists and educators at Sound Art, Feminist Pedagogy, and Listening to expand feminist perspectives within sound practices and address knowledge gaps related to listening as a methodological and pedagogical framework.
- 3:00 pm: Brooke Hull (they/them), Penn State Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, presents "Language Used Within the Fat Liberation Movement." Editing Fat acceptance movement.
- 3:30 pm: Forough Yazdanpanah (she/her), Penn State Visual Designer and Educator, presents "Expanding Representation of Iranian Women Artists on Wikipedia.” Editing Parvaneh Etemadi.
- 4:00 pm: Cecilia Orozco (she/her), Penn State Art Education doctoral student, presents "People's Paper Co-op: Women-Led and Women-Focused Art Justice Initiative.” Editing The Village of Arts & Humanities.
- 4:30 pm: Showcase of Wikistorming Advances. Alumni, Current Students, and Friends of Penn State Art Education Reception.
History of Art+Feminism Wikistorming by Penn State's Art Education Program, 2015-2025, with Recordings of Presentations.
[edit]List of articles to work on
[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. Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!
- See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
To improve
[edit]- Afghan Star
- Links to Afghan Star: Zahra Elham the first woman to win the competition
- http://www.afghanstar.tv/videos/top-3-elimination-afghan-star-s14-episode-31
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjO_fMhWoI&t=2s
- https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/meet-zahra-elham-the-woman-who-won-afghan-american-idol-for-the-first-time-1.1553263216866
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/23/first-time-woman-won-afghanistans-version-american-idol/?utm_term=.1a2bf164b042
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/world/asia/why-the-talibans-assault-on-ghazni-matters-for-afghanistan-and-the-us.html
- https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-zahra-elham-becomes-first-woman-to-win-afghan-star-afghanistan-s-version-of-american-idol-2732590
- Hangama Amiri: Afghan-Canadian Feminist Artist
- https://womenyoushouldknow.net/feminist-afghan-canadian-artist-advocate-womens-rights/
- http://ofnotemagazine.org/2015/12/05/hangama-amiri/
- https://roommagazine.com/interview/painting-greater-dialogue-interview-hangama-amiri-room%E2%80%99s-cover-art-contest-judge
- http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338760
- Linda Stein
- Link to Social Justice Art Education with Linda Stein's Art
- Link to Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females (2014) by Linda Stein
- Judy Chicago -- "Teaching career" section
- Add about the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection
- Add reference: Books and Exhibition Catalogues from Judy Chicago Feminist Art Resource Suite
- Judy Chicago Add citations for Chicago's Power Play, which includes "Three Faces of Man"
- https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/judy-chicago/
- https://bombmagazine.org/articles/toxic-masculinity-and-rainbows-judy-chicago-interviewed/
- https://www.riotmaterial.com/judy-chicago-powerplay-prediction/
- https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-judy-chicagos-work-reveals-toxic-masculinity
- http://www.judychicago.com/gallery/powerplay/pp-artwork/
- https://www.theartstory.org/artist-chicago-judy-artworks.htm
- https://worldofwonder.net/judy-chicagos-powerplay-is-3-decades-old-as-current-as-kavanaughs-toxic-masculinity/
- https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/chicago-judy
- Palmer Museum of Art
- Add acquisition of Judy Chicago's painting "Three Faces of Man" with references to https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-judy-chicagos-work-reveals-toxic-masculinity and https://salon94.com/exhibitions/powerplay-a-prediction and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeQvBrcJdGE and http://www.judychicago.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/J-Katz-essay-extracted-from-JC-DR-Catalog.pdf
- Add information about the museum's collection. Include Feminist artists, women artists, and artists of color. Currently focuses on Ashcan artists & white male artists.
- Feminist pedagogy
- Under Influential figures add Judy Chicago
- Under Practical Implications add Feminist Art Pedagogy
- Quilting
- Add about the the International Honor Quilt and the Hot Flash Fan, a mixed-media approach to quilting by 50 Kentucky artists that was initiated by Ann Stewart Anderson and facilitated by Judy Chicago. Through the Flower gifted the International Honor Quilt to the University and the Hite Art Institute in 2013 for research and study. The artwork was created in 1980 and accompanied Chicago's The Dinner Party in a worldwide traveling exhibition celebrating women's achievements throughout history.
- Womanhouse
- extensive article but could use organization/editing; check broken links in ref section
- check/update links in "Participating Artists" section (Special Collections resources also available; see below.)
- Woman's Building
- expand, check external links and refs for more content? (Special Collections resources also available; see below.)
- Sound Object https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_object
- Add Gerda Nettesheim’s and Monika von Wedel’s Sound Objects (connections to materiality) and Christina Kubisch’s flute performances on the aural and visual gender dynamics with (on gender and body).
- Sound Art
- Add the Aural-visual Gender Dynamics in Christina Kubisch’s Flute Performances at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_studies and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sound_artists
- #metoo
- Add global feminist art responses
- Feminist art movement -- "History" section
- Add artists
- Add Cuban Feminist Art Movement, Transnational Feminist Art Movement
- Mickalene Thomas -- Very list-y, could use some more descriptive text
- Lucy Lippard -- Could use some editing and additions
- Adrian Piper
- Add description of "Funk Lessons" (1983).
- Janet Cardiff
- Add images and edit text for clarity. Some good images on Google with noncommercial reuse permissions.
- Martha Hellion
- Add bibliography
- Nelly Richard
- Add to biography
- Translate content from Spanish page
- National Art Education Association
- Add about interest groups, including Women's Caucus
To create
[edit]- Digital Atelier
- Create page. /System/Volumes/Data/KRAUSE/IN PROCESS/Digital Atelier Wikipedia/Digital Atelier.docx
- Evelin Stermitz
- Create page. Evelin Stermitz (b. 1972) is an Austrian artist working in the areas of video art, new media art, performance, and photography , who is also founder of the ArtFem.TV project.
- Pam Longobardi
- Create page. Information at https://en.everybodywiki.com/Pam_Longobardi
- Ambar Past
- Biographical information available from Cinco Puntos Press
- Translate content from German Wikipedia page or look at Wikipedia in languages other the English, and link an English page to feminist artists on pages of other language communities.
- Past is well known for founding Taller Leñateros, a small press/art collective in Chiapas, Mexico, which also does not have a Wikipedia page.
- Virginia Allan
- Biographical information available from A Few Good Women, Virginia Allan
- Oral history available from Virginia Allan Recording
- Oral history transcript available from Virginia Allan Transcript
- Vera Glaser
- Biographical information available from A Few Good Women, Vera Glaser
- Oral history available from Vera Glaser Recording
- Oral history transcript available from Vera Glaser Transcript
- Vera Glaser papers at the University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, available from [1]
- Esther Christian Lawton
- Biographical information available from A Few Good Women, Esther Christian Lawton
- Oral history available from Esther Christian Lawton Recording
- Oral history transcript available from Esther Christian Lawton Transcript
- Brereton Sturtevant
- Biographical information available from A Few Good Women, Brereton Sturtevant
- Oral history available from Brereton Sturtevant Recording
- Oral history transcript available from Brereton Sturtevant Transcript
- Mira Lloyd Dock
- Additional biographies from A Few Good Women
- An automatically-updating list showing the Wikipedia status of ~250 women new media artists for whom articles should be added or expanded
- Yun Suknam
- Where Love is Illegal
In Penn State's Special Collections
[edit]Artists, curators, theorists:
- Cecilia Alvarez -- stub article, add anything
- Mary Godfrey -- create article, link to PSU black history site, Godfrey's archives in Special Collections
- Sheila Levrant de Bretteville -- add some substance, further readings
- Bia Lowe -- create article
- Violet Oakley -- expand section about William Penn murals, add her own writings/bibliography
- Arlene Raven -- needs more substance, further readings, copy edit
- Linda Vallejo -- expand, add further readings
Designers, illustrators, book artists:
- Margaret Neilson Armstrong -- add to bio, expand references
- Carol Devine Carson -- create article
- Angel De Cora Dietz -- add references, readings, maybe section on book design
- Louise Fili -- already includes extensive bibliography, but article lacks substance; needs copy editing
- Carin Goldberg -- very minimal entry; add substance, references, readings
- Jane Bissell Grabhorn -- expand, add further readings; see also Grabhorn Institute
- Kate Greenaway -- add substance, references, readings
- Alice Cordelia Morse -- add some further readings, references, more on Amelia Barr or link back from her bio
- Sarah W. Whitman -- add to section on book design, additional references
Helpful tips for beginners
[edit]- FemTechNet Wikistorming
- Art+Feminism Meetup page
- Art+Feminism resources
- Editathons (about & introduction)
- Lehigh University Libraries guide to Wikipedia editing
- University of Michigan Library research guide on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia for Libraries, Archives, & Museums
- Cheatsheet
Watch these short videos from Art+Feminism to guide you through the basics of Wikipedia editing:
Frequently used guidelines and policies
[edit]- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (policies & best practices)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Style guide for writing about the visual arts
- Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guidelines for when to add articles about non-people)
- Wikipedia:Notability (people) (some guidelines & best practices for adding articles about people)
OR open the menus below by selecting "SHOW" on the right side of each of the purple boxes:
Wikipedia research, statistics, trivia
[edit]- 2011 Editor Surveys
- Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia (also links to survey and poll results, external bibliographies, data sets)
- Gender gap information and resources
- Gender gap research & references
- Wikimetrics tool (API for gathering metrics after an edit-a-thon)
- "World of Wikipedia" map, illustration by Jon Robson
Results of March 2023 wikistorming
[edit]- Recording of 2023 presentations. Schedule of presentations.
- Together, in one day, 15 editors worked on 13 articles, with a total of 69 edits, adding 1.37K words to reshape knowledge on Wikipedia.
Results of March 2022 wikistorming
[edit]- Recording of 2022 Presentations by Karen Keifer-Boyd, Farrah Jasmine Dingal, Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson, Ye Sul Park, Xalli Zúñiga and Andrea Sahagún, Eunkyung Hwang, and Zena Tredinnick-Kirby]
- Together, in one day, 9 editors worked on 8 articles, with a total of 73 edits, adding 2.03K words to reshape knowledge on Wikipedia. The new entries are Violence against women, Cyberfeminism, Artist-in-residence new section "Alternative models of the residency ideal", Joy Buolamwini art activism and exhibition sections, Macedonia Blas Flores, List of glitch artists, at Makabayan and National Democracy (Philippines) added AMIHAN (National Federation of Peasant Women: Defend Peasant Women Portraits Series)
Results of March 2021 wikistorming
[edit]- Recording of 2021 Presentations by Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ilayda Altuntas, Lauren Stetz, Eunkyung Hwang, Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson, Glynnis Reed-Conway, Kevin Jenkins, & Marissa Baez
- Together, in one day, 9 editors created 3 new entries on Wikipedia, edited 7 articles, with a total of 41 edits, adding 3.38K words to reshape knowledge on Wikipedia. The new entries are Viral Imaginations: COVID-19, National Art Education Association Women's Caucus, and Artoria Gibbons, and much new added to the following: Michelle T. Clinton, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and Feminism (i.e., Marketplace Feminism)
Results of March 2019 wikistorming
[edit]- Recording of 2019 Presentations
- Press release
- Together, in one day, 14 editors created 3 new entries on Wikipedia, edited 9 articles, with a total of 108 edits, adding 1.9K words to reshape knowledge on Wikipedia. At each white dot on the timeline of the recording of the presentations is the beginning mark of the next presenter in the order listed above, and the focus of our editing.
Results of March 2018 wikistorming
[edit]- William Sturgis Bigelow Sexuality to biography -- added 4/6/2018
- Remix -- Feminist remix with examples -- added 4/6/2018
- Farnsworth House -- Tension between architect and client regarding control of the project -- added 4/6/2018
- Rietveld Schröder House -- Architecture embodying feminist ideals -- added 4/6/2018
- Border Art -- Artist section, artist Anzaldúa -- added 4/6/2018
- The Dinner Party -- "Further reading" section "Embroidering our Heritage: The Needlework of The Dinner Party" -- added 4/6/2018
- Feminist art -- "Gallery" section link to Womanhouse (1972) organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womanhouse -- added 4/6/2018
Results of March 2017 wikistorming
[edit]According to results tabulated by Wikimetrics, our cohort of 12 participants made 91 edits and created 7 new pages, with a total of 18,590 bytes added and -883 bytes subtracted (edited). This does, however, include the many edits and updates made to this meetup page during the event, but doesn't include work done by participants who didn't list their username at the bottom of this page...
Articles Created
[edit]- Mary Godfrey
- White House Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities
- Added brief description, list of recommendations, and task force members. Page needs enhancement, and cleaned up references. It's also already been recommended for some changes by another Wikipedia editor.
Articles Improved
[edit](Please add your work here, alphabetically ordered)
- Kate Greenaway
- List of women in Female Biography
- Lucrezia Gonzaga
- Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
- Violet Oakley
- Linda Stein Added photo of the artist, notable work, movement, awards, image of Calligraphic Knight 548 by the calligraphy section along with information about the work, image Femininities Body Language 897, images of Cases 886,855,872,872,874, link for Social Justice Art Education with Linda Stein's Art.
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