Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ms Ringgold is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego where she taught art from 1987 until 2002. Professor Ringgold is the recipient of more than 75 awards including 22 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees.* View a list of her awards here. * Internationally renowned artist, educator, and social activist, she began her artistic career in the 1960s as a painter. Best known for her painted story quilts–art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling–Faith has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.**

Her first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors.**

Since the early 1960s, Faith Ringgold has been known for her story quilts, politically charged paintings and prints, and illustrated children’s books. She has eloquently articulated a critical perspective on American identity through the lenses of the feminist and civil rights movements.***

For the High Line, Ringgold has revisited her colorful and paradigmatic story quilt Groovin High (1986), one of the many story quilts Ringgold created that inspired a revival of the medium in the late 1970s. Depicting a crowded dance hall bordered by quilted hand-dyed fabrics, Groovin High is evocative of Ringgold’s memories of Sunday afternoon dances at the Savoy and her connection to the African American communities of her native Harlem. Her style reflects formal treatments of shape, color, and perspective reminiscent of many painters whose styles defined the Harlem Renaissance, an immensely productive and creative cultural movement of the 1920s that erupted out of the African American community living in the eponymous New York neighborhood.***

You can find out more about Faith Ringgold’s works of art and literature below.

Sources:

*http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/bio.htm

**https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/faith-ringgold

***https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/faithringgold/

List of books found here: http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/books.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Tar-Beach-Faith-Ringgold/dp/0517885441

Photos:

http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/d03.htm 

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