Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Harlem
- Educated at
- City College of New York
- Awards
- 🏆 Caldecott Medal🏆 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Time 100
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I was encouraged to look around me and to paint what I saw. I painted my story, and it had a lot of angles to it. I was trying to explain how I saw life as a black person living in America, and I put …"
"Political people don’t seem to understand art…It’s not what they’re trying to do. And if it is, let them do that. Don’t tell me what to do, because I have to look at this many years from now and be ha…"
"…Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which also put designs together to make them beautiful…"
Works & Publications
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Timeline
1930
Born
Birth2024
Died
Death
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