Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Public art/Projects

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You are welcome to start a Task Force in your town, city, or community based on one of the following project-based approaches, or another approach you develop. Be creative and awesome and help make a project dedicated to documenting public art using Wikipedia.

The Artist Research Project

This is an initiative developed by the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art-North America (INCCA-NA) and designed to produce the most up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge about the representation and conservation of a body of artwork by a single artist or artist collective.

The inaugural artist selected in the Artist Research Project is Tony Smith. Using the Wikipedia list of Tony Smith outdoor sculptures as a starting point, the goal is to create a Wikipedia article about every single outdoor sculpture in the world before by Tony Smith before his 100th birthday, September 23.

Go here to help document Tony Smith outdoor sculptures

Museum & cultural sector projects

E-Volunteer Museum Program: Volunteers learn how to use Wikipedia, then use museum resources to create/contribute to articles.

Get started: E-volunteer plan.

Sample plans

* The Indianapolis Museum of Art e-volunteer program

* The Royal Ontario Museum e-volunteer program

The Public art community project

For artworks in the United States you can use the SOS! Database to find public artworks in your city that already have at least one reliable reference.

General guidelines for this work are listed in the SOS! to Wikipedia process

For examples of communities using the process see these WikiProject Public Art Task Forces:

School & educator projects

College Course Unit Plan

Example college course projects:

IUPUI Collections Care & Management The Statehouse Project Overview

IUPUI Collections Care & Management Indiana Statehouse Project Individual Assignments