Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ms Ringgold is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego where she taught art from 1987 until 2002.

Born Faith Willi Jones on October 8, 1930, in Harlem, Faith Ringgold was a pioneering painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, teacher and activist whose powerful works address issues of race, gender, and social justice.

Change 3: Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pound Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt, 1991

Faith Ringgold, The American Collection and Selected Works: Storyquilts, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, solo exhibition at ACA Galleries, NY; October 10 – November 28.

Faith Ringgold, a multimedia artist whose pictorial quilts depicting the African American experience gave rise to a second distinguished career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, died on Saturday at her home in Englewood, N.J.

Above and below the figures, the poster features the phrases “All Power to the People” and “Free all Political Prisoners.” By representing a Black family holding firearms, Ringgold was explicitly referencing the political controversy around the right to …

Faith Ringgold’s painting For The Women’s House was created for the Women’s House of Detention in New York City after the artist had been awarded a Creative Arts Public Service (CAPS) grant by the New York State Council on the Arts to produce a work for a public institution in New York City. Engaging and empowering audiences, especially ...

In 1981, Faith Ringgold completed a series of very raw works in reaction to the brutal murders of at least 28 children and young adults in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981. One suspect was later convicted of two murders, while the rest remained unsolved.

Faith Ringgold is one of the most outstanding artists alive today. Born in 1930 in the Harlem neighborhood where she still spends half the year, Ringgold came from a close family, whose love of storytelling was an important early influence. By her senior year in high school, she had decided she wanted to become an artist. She enrolled in New ...

For her first painting in the series Black Light, Faith Ringgold applied the tonal variations of gray, green, red, blue, and browns she had achieved through her experimentations with pigments in different dark shades.