Oral history interview with Faith Ringgold
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ringgold, Faith
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
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content: Biennale di Venezia (34th : 1968 : Venice, Italy)
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content: Women Students and Artists for Black Liberation
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content: Browne, Vivian E., 1929-1993
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content: Crump, Iris
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content: Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Surrealism
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content: Minimal art
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content: Art, African
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content: African American artists
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women performance artists
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content: Women sculptors
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content: African American painters
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content: African American sculptors
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content: African American art -- African influences
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Ringgold, Faith
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) was a painter, sculptor, performance artist, and author in New York, New York.
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content: 11 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.ringgo72
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Item is a transcript.
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content: Interviews
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content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview with Faith Ringgold conducted in 1972, by Doloris Holmes, for the Archives of American Art's "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.
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content: Ringgold speaks of her involvement and the origins of WSABAL (Women, Students, and Artists for Black Artist Liberation); her attempts to raise awareness of the under-representation of women in art (writing to the Times/ performing surveys); her hopes for the upcoming WSABAL show on June 22 (the first Black female show in New York); her feelings towards the NYUNBAYAASANAA (the male neo-African Harlem group); her reaction to the '68 Venice Biennale which excluded women and Black artists; her subsequent show named the Liberated Venice Biennale which consisted of 50% women; the She Show and the Flag Show which instigated three arrests; the He Show and upcoming Where Are We At? Show; the importance of conducting open shows; her feelings towards historical African art and its conceptual confronting nature; the influence of Augusta Savage; the influence of African art upon Minimalism and Surrealism.