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Faith Ringgold
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She is best known for her NARRATIVE QUILTS.
Faith Ringgold's most famous work of art is a book called Tar Beach.
The award-winning picture book was inspired by Ringgold's own childhood.
She illustrated the book
with her famous story quilts.
Fun fact!
Faith Ringgold was friends with one of last year's Masters of the Month, the portrait painter, Alice Neel.
Neel's portrait of Ringgold can be seen here:
It was hard for women - especially for black women - to make a living as artists back then. So, Ms. Ringgold became an art teacher instead.
Faith Ringgold is still alive. She lives and works in New Jersey.
She founded the Anyone Can Fly Foundation that teaches African American Art History to adults and children.
Faith Ringgold is an American painter, sculptor, fiber artist, and writer.
They are SEWN "paintings" that tell a story.
She continued to make her own artwork of course.
She traveled through
Europe and Africa.
These trips inspired her to make dolls, masks, paintings, and sculptures.
The CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT was growing in America.
Black people wanted to be treated equally.
Faith Ringgold
Faith was born in 1930.
She grew up in New York during a cultural explosion called the HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
Black artists, musicians, philosophers and writers lived and worked all around her.
Their work inspired her for the rest of her life.
Ringgold made art and wrote books that celebrated black leaders
like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Her artwork taught people about
the lives and courage of black people.