African American and feminist groups rally behind her empowering illustrations. Storytellers admire her creative style. Children, parents, and educators appreciate and teach through her brightly illustrated picture books. Ringgold is an artist with a vision to generate social change, and she has developed an audience that craves to listen. Ringgold s audiences are vast.
Exhibitions travel worldwide and draw huge crowds.
Posters of her art decorate thousands of homes and offices. Young children avidly devour her children s books, while older children and educators study her creative form of art and storytelling. Ringgold s art reinforces an empowering image of African American women. She actively expresses the world and the dreams she desires. My process is designed to give us colored folk and women a taste of the American dream straight up, she says.