Siân Evans | |
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Evans in 2016 | |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Librarian, activist, and Wikimedian |
Known for | Co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Misplaced Pages |
Siân Evans is an American librarian, activist, and Wikimedian. She is co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Misplaced Pages. Evans is a librarian at Johns Hopkins University.
Career
Evans is co-founder of Art+Feminism, a global campaign that challenges gender bias on Misplaced Pages. Evans notes that as part of Art+Feminism, "we do concrete work – adding citations to pages, expanding coverage of women in the arts – but, we also understand these events as platforms for consciousness raising and hopefully strategies for change emerge from that." Evans is the Online Programs Librarian at Sheridan Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2014, Evans was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
Evans' research and writing on digitally focused gender equity has been published in Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America and in the book Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond. She is part of the Art Libraries Society of North America's Women and Art Special Interest Group.
See also
References
- Hoban, Virgie. "Campus community tackles gender gap on Misplaced Pages during Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon". Berkeley Library News. University of California. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- Greenberger, Alex (9 February 2017). "MoMA Announces Fourth Annual Art+Feminism Misplaced Pages Edit-a-Thon". ArtNews. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- Driscoll, Brogan (31 March 2016). "Rewriting Misplaced Pages: Feminists Are Finally Giving Female Artists The Online Recognition They Deserve". Huffington Post. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- "Academic Liaison". Sheridan Libraries. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- "A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014". Foreign Policy Magazine. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- Informed agitation : library and information skills in social justice movements and beyond. Morrone, Melissa. Sacramento, California. ISBN 9781634000031. OCLC 889313887.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Emory, Sami (18 April 2016). "Breaking Records at Art+Feminism's Misplaced Pages Edit-A-Thon". Creators. Vice. Retrieved August 23, 2018.