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wikipedia project Articles published by UCLA students of artist and Prof. Alma Lopez.

About the Wikipedia Project

During the move to Zoom teaching due to the COVID pandemic, it was often difficult for students to gain access to the most basic art materials. Therefore, I began this activist research project after participating in a wiki-thon program of the exhibition Printing the Revolution at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art as well as contacting Wiki Education.

Wikipedia Articles

This is the list of all 76 articles published by students in Chicanx Latinx Art and Queer Art. It is followed by lists of articles published by each course and year.

Chicanx Latinx Art, Winter 2025

Winter 2025, fifty nine (59) students created Wikipedia accounts, and published nineteen (19) new articles, and edited forty nine (49) articles.

Edit Isabel Castro • Margaret Garcia • Favianna Rodriguez

Chicanx Latinx Art, Fall 2023

Fall 2023, one hundred ten (110) students created Wikipedia and collaboratively published thirty six (36) new articles.

Queer Arts, Winter 2023

Winter 2023, nineteen (19) students created Wikipedia accounts and published twelve (12) new articles.

Chicanx Latinx Art, Fall 2022

Fall 2022, sixty one students created Wikipedia accounts and published fifty five (55) new articles.

Queer Arts, Winter 2022

Winter 2022, this project was offered in the Queer Arts course. Twenty two (22) students created Wikipedia accounts, and created seventeen (17) new articles.

Chicanx Latinx Art, Fall 2021

Fall 2021, was the first time that this project was offered. Sixty nine (69) students created Wikipedia accounts, and created forty four (44) new articles.

Alma Lopez is a visual artist and a lecturer in the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and LGBTQ Studies Program at UCLA. She teaches courses on art censorship, queer art, chicanx/latinx art, public art, and digital art. To see work and projects, visit www.almalopez.com.

For help with this project, I would like to thank Helaine Blumenthal and Brianda Felix of Wiki Education; and Xaviera Flores, archivist and librarian at the CSRC (Chicanx Studies Research Center) at UCLA. Also, Christian Duran, teaching assistant for Chicanx Latinx Art Fall 2021 and Kevin Amaya Cruz, teaching assistant for Chicanx Latinx Art Fall 2022.

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Alma Lopez