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Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
The French Collection is a series of twelve quilt paintings by American artist Faith Ringgold completed between 1991 and 1997. Divided into two parts composed of eight and four quilts each, the series utilizes Ringgold's distinct style of story quilts to tell the fictional story of a young African American woman in the 1920s, Willia Marie Simone, who leaves Harlem for Paris to live as an ...
Street Story Quilt is a 1985 painting by Faith Ringgold. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City. It is one of many pieces in a body of work of story quilts created by Ringgold. This work is a triptych consisting of three canvases sewed onto quilts.
Ringgold, the pioneering artist and author best known for narrative quilts that interwove art with activism and uplifted Black women’s stories, has died at 93. Faith Ringgold, whose art made ...
Faith Ringgold, an award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Black female artists and became famous for her richly colored and detailed quilts combining painting, textiles and ...
Among her socially conscious works is a three-panel “9/11 Peace Story Quilt” that Ringgold designed and constructed in collaboration with New York City students for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Each of the panels contains 12 squares with pictures and words that address the question “what will you do for peace?”