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Grants:Project/Rapid/Art+Feminism CT 2021

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Trinity College/Art+Feminism CT
Our proposal will fund a virtual art+feminism event that includes an edit-a-thon, virtual art museum tour, lecture, and workshop on wikipedia editing and open pedagogy. Our event will make space for community and campus artists affected by the pandemic as well as local museums, archives, and artist organizations.
targetArt+Feminism, Women in Red
start dateMarch 3
end dateAugust 30
budget (local currency)1600 USD
budget (USD)please add the amount you are requesting (USD)
grant typeorganization
non-profit statusyes
grantee• PartontheEdit
contact(s)• Mary.Mahoney@trincoll.edu• Jason.Jones@trincoll.edu
organization (if applicable)• Trinity College


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Project Goal edit

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  1. Recruit new editors. Through our virtual event, we are able to broaden the reach of our original intended audience. We are interested in creating new editors among faculty, students, and staff of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ communities in our campus community, and within the broader Hartford community. We are also collaborating with the Connecticut Digital Archives (CTDA) and the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) to bring in volunteers from across the state through their partner organizations. These organizations include many institutions of higher education, museums, and cultural organizations.
  2. Support the local arts community both on campus and in the city of Hartford during Covid. A central portion of our budget is to directed to support both on campus and local artists for contributions to our event. We are working with a campus art collective called Nest Artists, who will be creating a logo and other promotional materials for our event. This is a group founded by BIPOC to create space for artists working outside the college’s formal art programs. We will also host virtual performances by these artists along with artists from the Hartford community during our day long edit-a-thon on Friday, March 5th. The virtual nature of our event allows us to create space for artists to share their work at a time when their opportunities and resources have been severely affected.
  3. Educate our campus art community about the politics of knowledge creation around art/artists on Wikipedia and its relationship to their practice. Nest Artists are a campus partner for our event. We will also be working with them in smaller groups to teach Wikipedia editing in advance of the event to discuss the effects of gender bias, racism, homophobia, and class discrimination as forms of gatekeeping in artistic communities, including on our own campus. This group formed in part as a response to the prohibitive cost of majoring in studio arts and offers a space for students who want to center their practice without having to pay costly studio fees.
  4. Contribute to conversations about open access and pedagogy in higher education. We are reaching out to faculty/librarians on our campus and at our partner organizations to educate volunteers about the value of incorporating open access materials into the classroom. To emphasize this, we will be hosting a virtual workshop that will invite educators to learn more about incorporating Wikipedia editing into their pedagogical practice the week following our edit-a-thon.


Project Plan edit

Activities edit

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1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

Prior to our main events in the first week of March, we will be hosting more informal trainings with the undergraduate club with whom we’re partnering on this event (Nest Artists). We are hosting a week’s worth of events the first week of March with one follow-up event the week after. On Wednesday, March 3rd, we will give registrants access to a virtual talk on how gender biases have affected museum curation and collections. The next day, we will host museum curators speaking about exhibit design in response to past gender bias in their exhibits and collections. On Friday, March 5th, we will host a day-long edit-a-thon that will include an hour-long performance by student and community artists. The following week, we will host a virtual workshop on teaching Wikipedia editing in the classroom as an open educational resource.

2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.

We have created a site to use yearly, as we hope to continue to host this event regularly. We are partnering with CTDA and CTDH who will promote our calls for participation on their listservs and websites. Some of the partner organizations in these regional groups with whom we’ll work are the American Antiquarian Society, Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut. We are also part of a regional consortium of colleges known as CTW (Connecticut College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University) which will promote the event on all its social media and websites as well. On our campus, we are partnering with Nest Artists who will promote the event on their social media. In the Hartford art community, we are working with Sage Seeker Productions, a BIPOC queer feminist art collective, to feature local artists during our performance on Friday, March 5th.

3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?

Our team includes four experienced editors, two of whom will lead the event. (Editors include jethomes2, Partontheedit,  Angeleawolf, chappell ). Our planning group also includes three staff members who don’t edit but offer excellent organization and support. Two librarians have made important connections with faculty and student groups who will serve as important community partners on campus, in addition to the local art museums, feminist queer art collective, and public library.

4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Our event will be entirely virtual to allow for the widest possible participation across the state of Connecticut. We created a website to help volunteers surface research virtually privileging open access resources and making tutorials and trainings on editing Wikipedia freely available. We will also be available to answer any and all questions via email and using chat on zoom.

5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

We will use the sign-up list from our EventBrite to invite volunteers to join us for further Wikipedia editing events throughout the year. Our open pedagogy and Wikipedia event will hopefully jumpstart a working group that will meet regularly.

6. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

Our event will be entirely virtual

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Impact edit

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events 5
  2. Number of participants 100
  3. Number of new editors 90
  4. Number of of articles created or improved 100
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 10

Resources edit

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

 We have 4 experienced Wikipedians who will attend all the events, one event planner, and 2 online mentors. Library staff will help us with resources and are providing the venue for free.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

  • Raffle prizes for participants that will support local black-owned bookstore: 2 x $100 = $200
  • Support for local artists (4 gift cards) = 4 x $300 = $1200
  • Miscellaneous supplies = $200 (event logo and promotional materials designed by Nest Artists)

Total = 1600 USD

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