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.