Art + Feminism edit-a-thon
International Women's Day
Sunday 5 March 2017 2 - 5pm
The Library, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
Free, booking required.
Join us for our first ever edit-a-thon and help us improve the coverage of female Royal Academicians on Wikipedia.
Since 1768, the RA has elected a total of 60 female Royal Academicians to its membership, including the two founding members Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser. For International Women's Day 2017, the RA, together with Wikimedia UK, hosts its first ever Art + Feminism edit-a-thon. Come along and find out about our past and present female Royal Academicians and participate in communal updating of Wikipedia’s entries on these artists.
Women make up only 17% of the biographies on Wikipedia. Female editors are even rarer, making up under 15% of Wikipedia's regular editing community. Art + Feminism aims to tackle this by contributing and amending meaningful information on female artists, hosting events around the world creating and editing Wikipedia pages.
This event is an opportunity to delve deep into the RA Library and Collection and explore the vast collection of books, press cuttings, reviews of exhibitions and works sold at auction. You'll also have access to the Grove Dictionary of Art, which includes biographical entries for many of the female RAs.
Please note you will be required to bring your own laptop. Should you be unable to do so please contact the Ticketing Team on 020 7300 8090 or tickets@royalacademy.org.uk.
Programme
2pm Welcome
Amy Bluett, RA Events & Lectures Programmer
2.10pm Introduction to the RA Library and Collection
Adam Waterton, Head of Library Services
2.30pm Introduction from Wikipedia
Stuart Prior, Wiki Media UK
2.45pm How to edit
Stuart Prior, Wiki Media UK
3-3.45pm Editing
With 1:1 support from Stuart Prior, Wiki Media UK, and Amy Macpherson, Royal Academy Senior Digital Producer
3.45-4.15pm Refreshments/break
4.15-4.50pm Final editing
4.50-5pm close and thanks
Amy Bluett, RA Events & Lectures Programmer
#IWD
#artandfeminism
#BeBoldForChange
@royalacademy on twitter and Facebook
Please note this programme is subject to change.
About the Royal Academy Library
The Royal Academy Library is the oldest institutional fine art library in the country, established in 1768 for the use of the Members of the Academy and its students. It is housed in an evocative, hidden space tucked away next to the Sackler Galleries on the top floor of Burlington House. Entrance is via the Library Print Room which opens onto the main reading room which is filled with thousands of historic books on art and art theory, architecture, archaeology and much more. This impressive room was once a Victorian sculpture gallery and was redesigned in the late 1980s by the architects Betty and H.T. Cadbury-Brown to hold the Library.
International Women’s Day 2017 at the Royal Academy
To mark International Women’s Day 2017, the Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a week of talks, workshops and tours to explore ideas of gender, material and identity in art. Focusing on women artists across different RA exhibitions and the RA Collection, join us to discover some of the under-acknowledged accomplishments of women artists throughout history.