User:Infopetal

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About me

Hello! I am a metadata librarian (Q80490291) and resident of New York City (Q60). Much of my editing on Wikidata is focused on visual arts (Q36649) (particularly contemporary art (Q186030)), librarianship (Q856625), and authority control (Q118455746).

Personal projects

Below is a partial list of some of the topics and sources I have worked to represent on Wikidata:

Databases

• African American Visual Artists Database (Q106890822) (artists; Mix'n'Match catalog)
• David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base (Q80947707) (all entities)
• Edited By – Women Film Editors (Q84798010) (film editors)
• HistoryMakers Maker Directory (Q124313160) (people)
• Missouri Artists (artists; Mix'n'Match catalog)
• NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project (Q107490222) (sites; Mix'n'Match catalog)
• Queens Name Explorer (Q124646824) (edit-a-thon)
• St. James Guide to Black Artists (Q110308119) (artists)
• Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry (Q84318953) (artists; Mix'n'Match catalog)

Collections

• Barnes Foundation (Q808462) (artists)
• Forge Project (Q111180896) (artists)
• Gochman Family Collection (Q125190767) (artists)
• Hessel Museum of Art (Q57272143) (artists; Mix'n'Match catalog)
• MTA Arts & Design Permanent Art Collection (Q119144561) (artists; artworks as list; artworks on map)
• New York State's Harlem Art Collection (Q116018541) (artists)
• Roger Brown Study Collection (Q85797680) (artists; Mix'n'Match catalog)
• Studio Museum in Harlem (Q903403) (artists)

Exhibitions

• Afro-American Abstraction (Q114907041) (exhibited creators)
• Black Artist In Graphic Communication (Q112123749) (exhibited creators)
• Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 (Q123034801) (exhibited creators)
• Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (Q114731176) (exhibited creators)

Collectives

• Coenties Slip (Q117352448) (members)
• Colab (Q1107572) (members)
• Folly Cove Designers (Q5464805) (members)
• Gran Fury (Q5594001) (members)
• Heterodoxy (Q5747151) (members)
• Push Pin Studios (Q3925990) (employees)
• Smokehouse Associates (Q114096443) (members)
• Weusi Artist Collective (Q24204395) (members)

Movements

• Pattern and Decoration (Q7148372) (associated people)

Educational Programs

• Atelier 17 (Q10421187) (alumni)
• Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (Q5059578) (alumni)

Artists in Residence

• Studio Museum in Harlem (Q903403) (artists)

Awards

• ARLIS/NA Distinguished Service Award (Q80887799) (recipients)
• Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (Q110808945) (recipients)
• CCS Bard Alumni Award (Q123824741) (recipients)
• Sam Gilliam Award (Q125208172) (recipients)

Miscellaneous

• Black Arts Council (Q18753775) (members)
• Colors produced by species of fungi (species)
• Library worker unions (unions)
• Libraries and archives in Palestine (libraries and archives)
• New York Mycological Society (Q7013798) (members)
• Westbeth Artists Community (Q604877) (occupants)

Professional projects

Some of my Wikidata contributions during the below periods may qualify as paid editing in cases where I edited or created items related to the employer indicated:

• June 2019–December 2021: Frick Art Reference Library (WikiProject)
• Since December 2021: New York Public Library (WikiProject)