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The response was beyond what we could have imagined, Art+Feminisms co-founders told Artsy collectively, via email. The call for participation went viral; people and organizations we had no direct relationship with were reaching out, asking to be a part of the project, they said. We thought we would have to guilt 10 friends into attending! We never expected to be working on the project years later.

Now, Art+Feminism has spread to more than 28 countries across six continents. Although their edit-a-thons are primarily planned to occur in March, to correspond with Womens History Month, they continue throughout the year. These events are planned and hosted by local arts organizations and major museums, like the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In 2016 alone, participants in Art+Feminisms efforts added roughly 2,000 articles to Wikipedia and improved another 1,000. Artists newly represented on the site span Alice Boyd, a British pre-Raphaelite painter, Margret the Adroit, an early 13th-century Icelandic carver, and Xiao Lu, a contemporary Chinese installation and video artist.

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City hosted an edit-a-thon on Saturday, March 18th. It was the schools first event with Art+Feminism, scheduled as part of a wider event series reacting to the election of President Donald Trump in November. We wanted to create something for our students so they could become politically active, or to show them ways in which they could effect change, explained Phoebe Stein, a digital service librarian at SVA who organized the edit-a-thon.

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