Survey Instrument

We are interested in gathering information about artists. Immediately below, you will see the name of an artist, a website link pointing to information about the artist and/or a sample of their work, and the name of a museum in which the artist’s work is displayed.

We ask you to find information about the artist above and to make your best inference about their gender, ethnicity, national origin, and birth year. To find this information, you might use:

In addition to answering questions about the artist’s gender, ethnicity, national origin, and birth year, you will have a chance to express your degree of confidence for each response you give (for example, “I am somewhat confident in my assessment of this artist’s gender”).

  1. The artist listed above might be a unique, identifiable individual, or it might be a collective of artists, a company, an anonymous listing, or something else that prevents identification of an individual. Please indicate which is the case.
  1. What is the gender of the artist? In answering this question, you might use the artist’s name, and/or any pictures you find of the artist, and/or any textual information you find referring to the artist with gendered pronouns (e.g., “he/she,” “his/hers”).
  1. For Question #2, how confident are you in your response?
  1. An ethnic group is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestral, linguistic, social, cultural or national experiences. What is the artist’s primary ethnic background? If you believe more than one ethnic background is “primary” for this artist, you may select multiple categories below. If the artist is not a unique, identifiable individual, please indicate that instead of choosing an ethnicity.
  1. If you chose “Other” for Question #4, please specify the ethnic background.

  2. For Question #4, how confident are you in your determination of the artist’s ethnicity?

  1. We say that a person has a particular “national origin” because they or their ancestors were born in a particular country, or because a person has physical, cultural or linguistic characteristics of a national origin group. What one country is your best assessment of the artist’s national origin? If the country no longer exists, please use your best judgment to pick a currently existing country that is as geographically close as possible. For instance, for an artist with national origin “Ottoman Empire,” you might choose “Turkey,” or “Syria,” or “Iraq.” If the artist is not a unique, identifiable individual, please choose the first option below. If you could not determine the artist’s primary national origin, please choose the second option below.
  1. For Question #7, how confident are you in your assessment of the artist’s national origin?
  1. In what year was the artist born? If an exact birth year is not available but partial information is, please provide this information. For example, if the birth information is given as “12th century” you could enter 1100 as the birth year. If an artist’s birth year is BC/BCE, please enter it the number with a minus sign before it. For example, if an artist’s birth year were 145 BC, you would enter -145. In your response, please only enter numbers (potentially with a minus sign), but no words or other text. Finally, if the artist was not a unique, identifiable individual or if you cannot determine the artist’s birth year, please leave this question blank.

  2. For Question #9, how confident are you in your assessment of the artist’s birth year?