Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists with social practice artist, Shoshana Gugenheim

Tools for Collaboration: Please bring a laptop and power source & a selected artist about whom you will be writing & reference materials to help you with your entry/edits (details below)

WHAT: OJMCHE in partnership with social practice artist, Shoshana Gugenheim, will host an International Women’s Day Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and/or edit Wiki pages for Jewish women artists. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively enter 18 new Jewish women artists into the canon. Support will be provide by experienced local Wikipedians who will be on site to teach and guide the process. This edit-a-thon will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participants will have an opportunity to select an artist/s ahead of time or on site. Lists of recommended artists and research materials on select Jewish women artists will be provided.

WHY: Gugenheim writes, “As a feminist amidst a growing, even thriving, worldwide community of Jewish feminists and our supporters, I recognize that the global community of women continues to be underrepresented as culture makers and contributors to the canon of cultural history. This is evident across the arts and influences the way women are recognized (or not) in the canons of encyclopedic knowledge. A Wikipedia edit-a-thon for (but not only by) Jewish women artists aims to increase Jewish women artists’ visibility in the Wikipedia archives thereby achieving a broader global impact regarding these women’s important contributions.”

*Pre-registration is preferred but not required. We will have a form for you to fill out soon!

See how Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons are impacting the world one word at a time. A Feminist Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Reshape Wikipedia, The New Yorker.

Learn more about Art + Feminism here.