C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Tony Smith T-Shirt edition.

Want a shot to get your very own limited edition Tony Smith t-shirt?  Check out C-Monster’s t-shirt give away for your chance to get your hands on this hot commodity.  

If you can’t get one the free way, you can always earn one by writing a Wikipedia article about a Tony Smith sculpture.  I know it’s not easy for everyone to work in Wikipedia, but the t-shirt is definitely worth it.  

Check out my column on Art 21 for details about the project to document all of his sculptures for his 100th birthday.  Or listen to me explain why it’s important over on the Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Or just cut to the chase and learn about the project within Wikipedia.

Help document Tony Smith artworks with Wikipedia and get a limited edition Tony Smith t-shirt!

Hey amigos, do you want a limited edition Tony Smith t-shirt (cute boy not included)? Read the article I just posted on Art21 about it. Let me know if you have any questions. 

Please help share this project … I’d really like to have all of Tony Smith’s artworks documented by the end of 2013!

How Women Can Close the “Gender Gap” in Wikipedia by Documenting Artworks

Here’s a post by IMA summer intern, Anisha Gupta about Women, Wikipedia, and Tony Smith.  

US or Canada? Either way, get busy e-volunteering!

If you’re interested in e-volunteering for a museum, you now have your choice of a U.S. institution, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art or as of this week also at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Help document all of the outdoor Tony Smith sculptures in the World!

The International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art – North America has launched a project this summer to document all of the Tony Smith outdoor artworks around the world using Wikipedia and Flickr, two free web-based resources.  This is part of INCCA-NA’s “Artist Research Project” for which Smith was chosen as the inaugural artist in part with recognition of his 100^th birthday this September.    

No doubt, many of you visit or even work for institutions that have Tony Smith sculptures on view, and you could help create up-to-date documentation of all of the sculptures in the world.  Here’s a link to the list of his sculptures so you can find one near you, and here’s a link to a page in Wikipedia that provides good instructions on how to write a Wikipedia article about a Tony Smith outdoor sculpture.

Please get involved and help us document all of his outdoor artworks in recognition of one of US’ most-renowned artists! 

The project was recently featured in this article in the New York Times and this article in the Gallerist NY.

WikiProject Public Art Featured in MMCA Newsletter

I’m always happy to be talking about WikiProject Public Art.  This time I discuss how it might be applied to help document contemporary public artworks in the International Council of Museum’s (ICOM) Modern Materials Working Group Newsletter.  Download the newsletter here.

What does a nerd do while his daughter is on the couch with strep throat?

Make a Wikipedia article about the best work of art by Jean Tinguely in the United States. Go have a look and fix and typos I’ve left behind, or add more knowledge …

Did you know you can e-volunteer for the IMA from anywhere in the world?

The IMA’s e-volunteer program is starting to take off.  Recently volunteers created a list of the 100 Most Important Artworks at the IMA, and now are starting to work through the list to make articles about every one.   

Last summer we documented all of the outdoor artworks on the 150 acre campus. 

What’s next?  Whatever you want to do to help create information about IMA artworks in Wikipedia, or my personal favorite, create encyclopedic articles about conservation practices.  So far there are good articles on:

Conservation and restoration of silver objects

Conservation and restoration of ceramic objects

Check out the e-volunteer program here.

Crowd Conservation

I was thrilled to discuss my conservation work at the Indianapolis Museum of Art with Jeffrey Inscho at Static Made for this week’s Podcast. In this podcast I discuss technology and conservation at the IMA, and also chat about my work in Wikipedia.  I’ll be giving a presentation about WikiProject Public Art at the upcoming American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting in Albuquerque next week, which has the theme Connecting to Conservation: Outreach and Advocacy.  

Go have a listen and give us some feedback!

B-72 finally makes it to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is more than 10 years old, but until today there was no article on B-72. Shocking, right? Well, now there’s a start to an article about this much-used conservation material. Geek out if you’d like, or go help make it better.

New on Wikipedia: an article about the conservation and restoration of ceramic objects

Go check it out — and go help make it more awesome!

Volunteer at the IMA from anywhere in the world.

Want to volunteer for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, but don’t live in Indianapolis?  Try out this program where you can help write articles about IMA artworks, or other related topics from anywhere in the world, even your own home.

There are two excellent videos on the IMA’s main page that will help introduce to writing in Wikipedia. 

Go check it out and give it a go, will ya?