Community Hours: A+F in the Classroom
June 16 at 1p ET | 17h00 UTC
https://bit.ly/AFClassroom

Join us for our next Community Hours: A+F in the Classroom on June 16 at 1p ET | 17h00 UTC. In this session, we will present two case studies that use Art+Feminism resources in higher ed settings. 

Anne Arundel Community College
Sophie Reverdy, A+F Mid-Atlantic Regional Ambassador, Distance Learning Librarian
Jen Schuster, Professor
Jen Schuster teaches Graphic Design at Anne Arundel Community college in Maryland, where Sophie is a Librarian. This was their first year collaborating together on a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. They’ll talk about Jen’s assignment and pivoting to an online event at the last minute!

Queen’s University
Jennifer Kennedy, Assistant Professor
Jennifer Kennedy teaches a semester-long course on Art Feminisms, in which she teaches students to research and write Wikipedia articles. The course culminates with the students organizing an Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon where they teach the skills they have learned over the semester to participants from the community.

This session will be in English. URLs will be shared with registered participants on the day of the event.
 

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Community Hours: Extending the Collective
June 22 at 12:30p ET | 16h30 UTC
https://bit.ly/AFCollective

Wikipedia is collaborative as such, but there are limits to the scope of a single user. In this Community Hours, we will present two case studies.

Daniela Brugger, an artist, and Art+Feminism ambassador will talk about her practice in collectives and the possibilities of expanding the single user impact on Wikipedia collaboratively. Since 2016 she has hosted several Edit-a-thons in different art spaces and libraries in various cities in Europe and Southern Africa. 2016 was also the year she founded the collective Who writes his_tory?, a collaborative project, which sees itself as part of movements and works closely connected with other committed writers and groups with a common interest in the exchange and structural influence on Wikipedia.

Zofia Reznik, an art scholar, and cultural animator will present the Caryatid Collective (Kolektyw Kariatyda), a grassroots initiative of enriching Polish Wikipedia with information on women in arts. The group was formed in Wrocław at the end of 2018 and it has started organizing edit-a-thons within the frame of 2019 Art+Feminism campaign, with the kind support of Wikimedia Polska Association. The Caryatids have so far organized 8 edit-a-thons in collaboration with various local art institutions and published the first issue of their zine. The group members are also contributors to the Polish Wikiproject:Women, striving for structural changes, as well as other national feminist Wikipedia campaigns. The collective is also a 2020 Rapid Grant beneficiary.

This session will be in English. URLs will be shared with registered participants on the day of the event.