Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Fernando Garcia
Join us for a workshop to create a Wikipedia page for the late artist Fernando Garcia, taking place during the run of Fernando Garcia: Calendars & Gradation Systems.
The edit-a-thon will include training for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials, and group and individual editing. This program will be facilitated by Luis Berthin, archival consultant and information professional, and Isabella Marie Garcia, the exhibition’s curator.
No prior Wikipedia editing experience is required.
Registration is free and required for all in attendance.
Fernando Garcia: Calendars and Gradation Systems is a posthumous solo exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late Cuban artist Fernando Garcia. In partnership with the Miami-Dade Main Library, who will be loaning the majority of the artwork in the exhibition, the showcase considers how Garcia, as an educator and interdisciplinary artist, utilized time in his practice and brought artmaking to the masses. Recreating a site-specific installation by the artist, the exhibition will present archival materials and ephemera of the late artist in vitrines placed throughout the space, reflecting on the deadly impact AIDS had on Miami’s artists and art scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
Luis Berthin is an information professional with over five years of experience in archival practice, records management, and institutional memory. Working at the intersection of arts, history, and culture, he supports organizations in developing accessible archives and leveraging knowledge systems. Rooted in a passion for uncovering, preserving, and sharing cultural narratives, his work advances community-centered historical initiatives.
Isabella “Isa” Marie Garcia is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist, writer, and photographer living in her native Miami, Florida. Interested in alternative educational spaces, holistic aftercare, and supporting visual artists in the American South in her practice, “Fernando Garcia: Calendars and Gradation Systems” is Garcia’s curatorial debut. The exhibition builds on the research conducted by Garcia through the 2024 Visual Aids Research Fellowship, which financially supports scholarship about artists who have been lost to AIDS.