Black Lunch Table


The Black Lunch Table is an oral-history archiving project focused on the lives and work of black artists. The work of the Black Lunch Table includes oral archiving, salons, peer teaching workshops, meetups, and Wikipedia edit-a-thons. The BLT brings people together to engage in dialogues about the writing, recording, and promoting inclusive art history. One aim of the Black Lunch Table project is to address the racial and gender bias on wikipedia by encouraging wikipedia articles about African American artists.

History

Artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart founded the Black Lunch Table in 2005 with an event at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist residency.

Events

Edit-a-thons

The Black Lunch Table has hosted edit-a-thon at a wide range of institutions and settings including Boston University, Rutgers, The New School, BRIC, and many others. As of 2020, the BLT organization has hosted 72 Wikipedia events in six different countries, creating 385 new articles and uploading 727 new images.