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This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue IX, September 2022

USA report

Advocacy and Invention; New Smithsonian WiR; Called to Create; DC Statehood and Home Rule; Annual meeting; Wikipedian in Residence Opportunity at the Pérez Art Museum Miami

By Slowking4, Ocaasi, Kelly Doyle & Andrew Lih

Advocacy and Invention

The Smithsonian National American History Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative; and Wikimedia DC held an online workshop to edit topics around women's advocacy and health topics. Advocacy and Invention: A Women's History Edit-a-Thon

New Smithsonian WiR

The Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative (AWHI) and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center have brought on Mia Cariello as a Wikimedia Coordinator. Cariello will focus on increasing the representation of AAPI women and women-identifying people on Wikimedia projects, building on her previous internship within the AWHI. Read more about the internship here. She'll be working with Kelly Doyle on this project. Please join us in welcoming User:CarCai!

Called to Create

The National Gallery of Art, and Wikimedia DC held a workshop, National Gallery of Art Called to Create Edit-a-thon.

DC Statehood and Home Rule

DC History Center and Wikimedia DC postponed a meetup, DC Statehood and Home Rule.

Annual meeting

Wikimedia NYC held an annual meeting, NYC/Election 2022

Wikipedian in Residence Opportunity at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is seeking a creative and driven Wikipedian In Residence (WIR) to improve coverage of their collections on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. PAMM is a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The WIR would be helping PAMM establish Wikipedia programming institution-wide. The Wikipedian In Residence will work closely with the digital team at PAMM with access to curators and staff for support and training.

On Wikidata, the WIR will add structured data and expand items about painting objects, artists, collections, installations, exhibits, and events. On Wikimedia Commons, photos of living artists will be taken and added with appropriate categorization. On Wikipedia, the WIR will improve articles about PAMM's artists, their key collections, and the notable art movements of which they are a part. The WIR will also engage community through edit-a-thons, virtual events, and staff trainings.

--Remote applicants are OK!--

APPLICATIONS OPEN: https://secure5.saashr.com/ta/5CET.careers?ShowJob=302365959

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