Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold ( dɔɣila Faith Willi Jones; silimiingoli October dabaanii dali ,yuunib 1930 ka o kani silimiingoli  April bɛɣu pinaata dali yuuni 2024) o daa nyɛla ŋun tumdi peeintin nucheeni tuma,  ka lahi nyɛ ŋu ŋmari buku nima ni mixed media sculptor, performance artist, n ti pahi intersectional activist,  tɔ bɛ mi o la narrative quilts.

Ringgold nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Harlem, din be New York City, ka deegi o shikuru shɛhira gban shɛŋa din nyɛ (bachelor's and master's degrees) shikuru din yuli booni  City College of New York. O daa nyɛla nucheeni tuma karachi n be shikuru yuli booni New York City public school system. 

 Pilli bɛhigu 
Faith Willi Jones nyɛla ŋun daa nyɛ bɛ ni dɔɣiso n pahi bihi ata silimiingoli October dabaanii dali , yuuni 1930, ashibiti yuli booni  Harlem Hospital, n be New York City. .

 Notable works in public collections 

The American People Series #1: Between Friends (1963), Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
The American People Series #4: The Civil Rights Triangle (1963), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland
The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The American People Series #20: Die (1967), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Black Light Series #1: Big Black (1967), Pérez Art Museum Miami
Black Light Series #3: Soul Sister (1967), Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Black Light Series #7: Ego Painting (1969), Art Institute of Chicago
America Free Angela (1971), National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
United States of Attica (1971–1972), Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum, New York
For the Women's House (1972), Brooklyn Museum, New York (on long-term loan from Rikers Island, New York City Department of Correction)
Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady (1977), Minneapolis Institute of Art
Echoes of Harlem (1980), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? (1983), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland
Street Story Quilt, Parts I-III: Accident, Fire, Homecoming (1985), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sonny's Bridge (1986), High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Bitter Nest, Part I: Love in the School Yard (1987), Phoenix Art Museum
The Bitter Nest, Part II: The Harlem Renaissance Party (1987), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Dream 2: King and the Sisterhood (1988), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach (1988), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
 Freedom of Speech (1990), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tar Beach 2 (1990), Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
The French Collection Part I, #1: Dancing at the Louvre (1991), Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
The French Collection Part I, #5: Matisse's Model (1991), Baltimore Museum of Art
The French Collection Part I, #7: Picasso's Studio (1991), Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Feminist Series #10: Of My Two Handicaps (1972/1993), Whitney Museum, New York
Crown Heights Children's History Story Quilt (1994), PS 22, New York City School Construction Authority
Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines (1996), 125th Street station, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York
The American Collection #4: Jo Baker's Bananas (1997), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues (1997), Art Institute of Chicago
Coming to Jones Road Print #2: Under a Blood Red Sky (2001), Weatherspoon Art Museum
People Portraits: in Creativity; Performing; Sports and Fashion (2009), Civic Center/Grand Park station, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In the Classroom: Grace Hopper (2022), Grace Hopper College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

 Din yina n kɔhi 

 Tar Beach, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1991 (1st ed.); Dragonfly Books (Crown), 1996. 
 Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1992 (1st ed.); Dragonfly Books, 1995. 
 Dinner at Aunt Connie's House, New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1993. 
 We Flew Over The Bridge: Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, Boston: Bulfinch Press (Little, Brown and Company), 1995 (1st ed.); Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2005. 
 Talking To Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman and Nancy Roucher, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1996. 
 Bonjour, Lonnie, New York: Hyperion Books for Young Readers, 1996. 
 My Dream of Martin Luther King, New York: Dragonfly Books, 1996. 
 The Invisible Princess, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1998 (1st ed.); New York: Dragonfly Books, 2001. 
 If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young People, 1999 (1st ed.); Aladdin Books (Simon & Schuster), 2001. 
 Counting to Tar Beach: A Tar Beach Board Book, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1999. 
 Cassie's Colorful Day: A Tar Beach Board Book, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1999. 
 Cassie's Word Quilt, New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002 (1st ed.); Dragonfly Books, 2004; Random House Children's Books, 2012. 
 Faith Ringgold: A View from the Studio by Curlee Raven Holton and Faith Ringgold, Boston: Bunker Hill Publishing in association with the Allentown Art Museum, 2004. 
 O Holy Night: Christmas with the Boys Choir of Harlem, New York: Amistad (HarperCollins), 2004. 
 What Will You Do for Peace? Impact of 9/11 on New York City Youth, introduction by Faith Ringgold, Hamden, Connecticut: InterRelations Collaborative, 2004. 
 The Three Witches by Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Faith Ringgold, New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 
 Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True, Piermont, New Hampshire: Bunker Hill Publishing in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2011. 
 Bronzeville Boys and Girls (poetry) by Gwendolyn Brooks, illustrated by Faith Ringgold, New York: Amistad, 2007 (1st ed.); HarperCollins, 2015. 
 Harlem Renaissance Party, New York: Amistad, 2015. 
 A Letter to my Daughter, Michele: in response to her book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015 (written 1980). 
 We Came to America, New York: Knopf, 2016 (1st ed.); Dragonfly Books, 2022. 
 Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power by Faith Ringgold, Michele Wallace, and Kirsten Weiss, Berlin: Weiss Publications, 2022. 

 Nyami yaha 

 Feminist art movement in the United States
 Black feminism

 Kundivihira 

 Ani tooi lahi karim 



 External links 


 Ringgold's blog
 Ringgold entry at ACA Galleries
 Interview with Ringgold about "American People Series #20: Die", 1967
 Barbara Faith Company blog
 Ringgold's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project
 Faith Ringgold Society
 Ringgold at Brooklyn Museum, Feminist Art Statement
 Oral history interview with Ringgold, 1972, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
 Interview with Ringgold about her art and writing, All About Kids! #188 (1994)