#faithringgold

[harvardfineartslib]

Rest in Power, Faith Ringgold.

Faith Ringgold died at 93 on Saturday at her home in Englewood, New Jersey.⁠

Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem in New York City in 1930. She was best known for her storytelling quilt work. This was the time after the golden era of the Harlem Renaissance, but the neighborhood was still beaming with much excitement and creativity. Ringgold grew up as the third child in a working-class family, often sick with asthma, such that she spent a lot of time making drawings and imagining that “the bridge was the magic highway to the rest of the world.” Later Ringgold used the imagery of bridges in “The Woman on a Bridge Series.”

Ringgold was a trailblazing artist, educator, and activist. For seven decades, she used art as her platform to speak out against racism, sexism, and inequality. Through her storytelling and visual art, Ringgold challenged the status quo in the society.

Faith Ringgold : a view from the studio Attribution: Curlee Raven Holton, with Faith Ringgold. Holton, Curlee Raven. Boston : Bunker Hill Pub. in association with Allentown Art Museum, 2004. English HOLLIS number: 990095910410203941

[mtaartsdesign]

Faith Ringgold, born in Harlem in 1930, is a creative and cultural force whose relevance today cannot be overstated. Best known for her innovative quilted narrations, her work is deeply tied to the struggle for social justice and equity in America, from the civil rights era through today. She has dedicated her life to championing women’s rights through her art, teaching, and activism. A major retrospective of her work, “Faith Ringgold: American People” is currently on view at The New Museum, through June 5. This clip from the 2019 BBC documentary “Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is” follows Ringgold as she visits her #MTAArts mosaic installation “Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines (Downtown and Uptown)” (1996). Her radiating spirit is apparent in the footage, in the exhibition, and on the walls of 125 St (2,3) Station in Manhattan.

Watch the full documentary here: https://vimeo.com/376453995

[bm-feminist-art]

Early Works #25: Self-Portrait, Faith Ringgold, 1965, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Faith Ringgold, 1965 Size: 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm) frame: 52 7/16 × 44 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (133.2 × 113 × 7 cm) weight with painting framed: 40 lb. (18.14kg) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/211047

[moma-prints]

Seven Passages to a Flight, Faith Ringgold, 1995, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Ralph E. Shikes Fund Size: overall (book, closed): 9 7/16 × 7 13/16 × 13/16" (24 × 19.9 × 2 cm); overall (clamshell box, closed): 10 3/16 × 8 3/8 × 1 7/16" (25.9 × 21.3 × 3.6 cm) Medium: Illustrated book with nine etchings with hand additions and pochoir on linen, including cover

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/22131

[offrouteart]

Offroute's weekly Artist Inspiration is Faith Ringgold! Faith is a painter, mixed media sculptor, writer, performance artist, teacher, and lecturer. Born in 1930, Harlem, New York, Ringgold went on to earn her B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art from the City College of New York from 1955 to 1959. In the early 1960's, Ringgold traveled Europe- her travels and return home inspired her first political paintings titled The American People Series from 1963 to 1967.  In the early 1970's, Faith began creating tankas (a Tibetan art form of paintings framed in richly brocaded fabrics), sculptures, and masks. Originally, Ringgold's art was inspired by African art forms- it wasn't until she traveled to Nigeria and Ghana in the late 70's that her creations with masks really began to unfold and become her greatest inspiration. In 1980, Ringgold partnered with her mother to create her first quilt titled Echoes of Harlem. Her first story quilt Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? was published in 1983.  Her first book Tar Beach was published in 1991. It won over 20 awards, including the Coretta Scott King award for best-illustrated children's book of 1991 and the Caldecott Honor. In 2010, an animated version voiced by Natalie Cole was produced and premiered on HBO. The book was based on the story quilt of the same name that was showcased in The Woman on a Bridge series, 1988. The original story quilt, Tar Beach, is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Faith Ringgold continues to create today- her most recent art inspired books are the Harlem Renaissance Party (Harper Collins 2015) and We Came to America (Alfred A. Knopf 2016). #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #arthistory #faithringgold #womenartists #womeninart #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdokeMpxdg/?igshid=1o8wcrhtwizp5

[supportblackart]

Faith Ringgold @faithringgold 🌻 “American Collection #1: We Came to America” (1997), Acrylic on canvas, 74.5 x 79.5 in Happy International Women’s Day ✨ #SupportBlackArt #FaithRinggold #WeCameToAmerica #AcryliconCanvas #InternationalWomensDay https://www.instagram.com/p/B9e17tzh1e0/?igshid=45re2kgzp9gt

[drawdownbooks]

Faith Ringgold: Die  Available at www.draw-down.com    While Faith Ringgold (born 1930) was painting this brutal vision in a Manhattan studio in the summer of 1967, civil unrest was convulsing black neighborhoods across the US, and protests against the war in Vietnam were escalating.    Art historian Anne Monahan's essay explores the mural's carefully orchestrated chaos and its multiform inspirations, from contemporary anxiety about black revolution, through the writings of James Baldwin and LeRoi Jones (soon to be Amiri Baraka), to iconic canvases by Picasso and Pollock.    #FaithRinggold #civilunrest #protests #AnneMonahan        (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDWr_xlHPVW/?igshid=tm3f32ga1p0h

[roxburysunflowerproject]

The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles

Faith Ringgold is an artist, best known for her narrative quilts. Above you can see the influence sunflowers had in community, traditions, quilting, womanhood and much more!