[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Marshelle Haseley (Newsday) writes about Esther Griffith, from Trinidad and Tobago, one of many three artists chosen from a world pool of submissions for the Wiki Unseen mission.
The Wiki Unseen mission, created by the Wikimedia Basis, is meant to assist unfold world consciousness of individuals from under-represented backgrounds who’ve made a profound affect on a variety of industries and fields of examine on a world scale.
The creators of the mission outline it not merely as a mission however fairly as a promise. The mission’s web site says the mission is “a promise to indicate the world the individuals who have formed the world, however had been systematically erased from information areas. Individuals whose photographs had been taken out of the image. Our purpose is to redraw these throughout the world majority — together with black folks, folks of color, and indigenous peoples – again into historical past, one picture at a time.”
Among the many three artists hand-picked by the staff from hundreds of submissions is Trinidad and Tobago artist Esther Griffith. Different artists featured within the first instalment of the mission are Ghanaian artist based mostly in Accra, Enam Bosokah and New York-based artist Bukhtawar Malik.
Griffith, who’s from St James, Port of Spain, has been a painter and illustrator for over ten years, specialising in portraiture and was a recipient of the Rising Leaders of the Americas scholarship from the federal government of Canada.
Griffith’s work has been exhibited each in TT and in Canada and has been purchased by collectors from TT, Canada, and the US. Griffith has painted watercolour portraits of Caribbean individuals who had been excellent of their fields inside and outdoors the area, particularly, Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor Mercedes Tharam Richards and Asquith Camile Xavier, a Dominica-born Briton whose relentless efforts noticed the ending of a color bar at British Railways and have become the primary non-white prepare guard on the Euston railway station in 1966.
Griffith additionally did a portrait of Trinidadian ladies’s-rights activist and neighborhood employee Leonora Pujadas-McShine, who based the League of Girls Voters in TT.
Griffith stated she obtained a listing of potential topics from the organisers of the mission, from which she selected the three. The listing included documentary filmmaker and pioneer of African-American filmmaking William Greaves, African-American poet, playwright/educator Could Miller, Ugandan linguist, scholar and literary theorist Pio Zirumu and Ghanaian biochemist Marian Ewurama Addy. [. . .]
For full article, see https://newsday.co.tt/2022/03/29/trini-artist-highlights-caribbean-hidden-figures-in-wiki-unseen-project
Meet Esther Griffith the artist who shall be bringing to life outstanding Caribbean figures to Wikipedia
Xavier Murphy, Jamaicans.com, March 2022
https://jamaicans.com/meet-esther-griffith-the-artist-who-will-be-bringing-to-life-prominent-caribbean-figures-to-wikipedia
Esther Griffith: Meet the artist | Wiki Unseen
Wikimedia Basis, February 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xsq3dw0lmM