Faith Ringgold

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Faith Ringgold

• A Brief History

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Faith Ringgold

• Faith Ringgold, began her artistic career more
  than 35 years ago as a painter. Today, she is
  best known for her painted story quilts -- art
  that combines painting, quilted fabric and
  storytelling.

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Faith Ringgold

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

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Faith Ringgold

• 1930 Born October 8 at Harlem Hospital, New York
  City, to Andrew Louis Jones Sr. and Willi Posey
  Jones. Faith has two older siblings, Andrew and
  Barbara. She is frequently sick with asthma as a
  small child art becomes a major pastime.

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Faith Ringgold

• 1950 Marries Robert Earl Wallace, a classical and
  jazz pianist, while majoring in art at the City
  College of New York. Obtains first studio space
  for independent oil painting projects in their
  apartment at 365 Edgecombe Avenue.

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Faith Ringgold

• 1963 Does her first political paintings. During a
  summer spent at Oaks Bluff on Marthas Vineyard,
  Faith develops her first mature painting style
  the content is influenced by the writings of
  James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka (then Leroi
  Jones)the artist calls her style super
  realism. Begins painting The American People
  Series of oil paintings (19631967).

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Faith Ringgold

• 1967 Paints her first murals, The Flag Is
  Bleeding, U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the
  Advent of Black Power, and Die, while her
  daughters are in Europe for the summer. Holds her
  first one-person show at Spectrum Gallery.

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Faith Ringgold

• 1969 Paints Flag for the Moon Die Nigger as a
  response to the first U.S. moon shot. Begins a
  series of political posters. Her daughters are in
  Mexico for the summer her father dies.

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Faith Ringgold

• 1971 Cofounds Where We At, a black artists group.
  Serves as guest curator of a Where We At show at
  Acts of Art Gallery.

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• 1999 Faith begins Coming to Jones Road, 1, a
  series of eight story quilts inspired by
  neighbors attempts to prevent construction of
  the studio, in her new studio.

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Jacob Lawrance
His paintings portray the lives and struggles of
African Americans, and have gained wide
popularity owing to their abstract, colorful
style and universal subject matter.
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Sam Gilliam
Relative, bunched, draped, folded, spread, and
hung, is an example of Sam Gilliam's innovative
approach to painting presentation. About 1965,
Gilliam became the first artist to introduce the
idea of hanging a painted canvas unsupported by
stretcher bars.
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In many respects, his paintings from that time
onward are quotations from traditional works,
much like the riffs of his musical
contemporaries.
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Romare Bearden
Although slavery had been abolished during the
early part of the 20th century, Jim Crow laws
kept many blacks from voting and from equal
access to jobs, education, health care,
business, land, and more.
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How do you write the story of your quilts?I
think about the characters and the story I want
to tell and then I begin to write the chapters
in segments. And then, just like the materials
of a quilt, I piece the words together until
they make a story. I have to edit many times
before it is finished and ready to be written on
the quilt.