User:MichaelaBlanc

Michaela Blanc

Wikimedian in Residence, Pérez Art Museum Miami and Regional Ambassador, Art+Feminism

About me

Hello, I'm Michaela Blanc! Currently, I am the Wikimedian in Residence (WIR) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (January 2023 – present) and a Regional Ambassador for Art+Feminism, serving New York, the Mid-Atlantic Region and Brazil (ongoing). I first edited on Wikipedia in March 2020 under my main account. I edit in both Portuguese and English languages.

I’ve cultivated a passion for modern and contemporary visual arts, especially the works of women and non-binary artists from the Americas.

I am also a museum curator with an academic background in Museum Studies/Museum Education and Art History at the graduate and undergraduate levels, respectively. I’m based in Pittsburgh, PA.

My work

In the next six months at PAMM, I aim to contribute to Wiki projects by expanding the quality of existing articles and creating new ones; adding images to artists’ biographies; incorporating citations and trustworthy sources; structuring data; and leading public workshops having the Pérez Art Museum Miami collections and temporary exhibitions on Latin American and Latinx, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, African Diaspora art as focal points.

In the past three years, I collaborated with several cultural institutions as an organizer and co-organizer of Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons across Brazil, the United States, and Portugal. In 2023, I was invited to serve on the WikiWomenCamp 2023 [1] scholarship committee, and I am also a member of the user group WikiMulheres+ (PT).[2]

Furthermore, in 2022 I was invited as a guest speaker to share about my experience as an event organizer at the [3]. In 2021 I participated as a guest panelist in the panel Wikipedia & Diversity, which took place during the festivities of 20 years of Lusophone Wikipedia. In 2020, I delivered a virtual talk on gender studies and the internet in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in America, New York and Hong Kong.

Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to Pérez Art Museum Miami as a Wikipedian in Residence. I independently develop content for the internet through this account. Edits and statements expressed in Wikipedia articles are solely my own and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or positions of PAMM. One can follow my contributions via this dashboard. Please note, assertions made by this account are provided for consideration by the community and are not vetted by the Pérez Art Museum Miami.