Pérez Art Museum Miami

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In March, we talked with Michaela Blanc (b. 1989, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro) as part of our series of interviews with gender organizers for the Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality . Michaela is a curator with a background in art history and museum studies; originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she now lives in the United States. For the last three years, she has been a Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she leads a powerful initiative based on the museum’s collection that connects artists from South Florida and a group of teens through Wikimedia projects.

Although her position at PAMM is not limited to gender topics, Michaela sees herself as an “advocate for gender issues.” She first became involved with Wikimedia in 2019 through Art+Feminism – the global user group dedicated to improving coverage of cis and trans women, gender, and the arts through organizing in-person training and…