Faith Ringgold

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birthdate = 1930
location = Harlem, New York
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nationality = American
field = Painting, Fabric art
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Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930) is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts.

Life and work

Faith Ringgold was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. she was taught by her grandmother to sew. She was greatly influenced by the fabric she worked with at home with her mother, who was a fashion designer, and has used fabric in many of her artworks. She is especially well-known for her painted story quilts which blur the line between "high art" and "craft" by combining painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling. Her work is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and other museums, mostly in New York City.

In addition, Ringgold has written and illustrated seventeen children's books [http://faithringgold.blogspot.com/2007/11/2.html] including "Tar Beach" and has exhibited in major museums all over the world. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.

Ringgold was also the plaintiff in a significant copyright case, "Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television". ["Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television", 126 F.3d 70 (2nd Cir. 1997).] Black Entertainment Television (BET) had aired several episodes of the television series "Roc" in which a Ringgold poster was shown on nine different occasions for a total of 26.75 seconds. Ringgold sued for copyright infringement. The court found BET liable for copyright infringement, rejecting the de minimis defense raised by BET, which had argued that the use of Ringgold's copyrighted work was so minimal that it did not constitute an infringement.

Ringgold and her daughter, the writer Michele Wallace, were founding members of the National Black Feminist Organization. [http://www.blackculturalstudies.org/wallace/hellandback.html ]

Ringgold is represented by [http://www.acagalleries.com ACA Gallery] .

Awards

*1995 Townsend Harris Medal City College of New York Alumni Association
*1999 Banks Street, May 27, 1999
*1999 City arts Award, June 14, 1999
*1999 Art alliance (Scholastic) April 13, 1999
*1999 NAACP Image Award
*2000 Mary Grove College, Honorary Art Degree
*2001 Art Institute, Chicago, IL, May 19,2001
*2001 Dedicators Award 10/27/01
*2002 California Art Educators Association Living Artists Award
*2004 National Visionary Leadership Project
*2005 Moore College of Art and Design’s Visionary Women Award
*2005 Amistad Center for Art & Culture Presidents Award
*2006 James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art Honoree
*2006 Harlem Arts alliance Golden Legacy Visual Arts Award

Publications by Faith Ringgold

*"Tar Beach", Crown Publishing Company, New York, New York.
*"Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky", Random House, Crown Publishers, New York, New York.
*"Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House", Hyperion Books For Children, New York, New York.
*"We Flew Over The Bridge: Memoirs of Faith Ringgold", Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts 1995, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2005.
*"Talking To Faith Ringgold", by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman and Nancy Roucher, Crown Books for Young Readers, New York, New York.
*"7 Passages To A Flight, an artist’s book", Brighton Press, San Diego, California.
*"Bonjour Lonnie", Hyperion Books for Young Readers, New York, NY.
*"My Dream of Martin Luther King", Crown Books for Young Readers, New York, NY.
*"The Invisible Princess", Crown Books for Young Readers, promotional poster, New York, NY, September.
*"If a Bus Could Talk", Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.
*"Counting to Tar Beach", Crown, New York, NY, 2000.
*"Cassie's Colorful Day", Crown, New York, NY, 2000.
*"Cassie's Word Quilt", Crown, New York, NY, 2001.
*"O Holy Night", Harper Collins, New York, 2004.
*"The Three Witches" by Zora Neale Hurston illustrated by Faith Ringgold, Harper Collins, 2005.
*"Bronzeville Boys and Girls" (poetry) by Gwendolyn Brooks illustrated by Faith Ringgold Harper Collins, NYC, 2007.

Faith Ringgold School

A elementary and middle school in Hayward, California was named after her in 2007.

References

External links

* [http://www.faithringgold.com Faith Ringgold's site]
* [http://faithringgold.blogspot.com Faith Ringgold's blog]
* [http://barbarafaithcompany.blogspot.com Barbara Faith Company blog - Everything about Faith Ringgold] .