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Happy Holidays
from Faith Ringgold







photo credit Star Black, 2007



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Who's Bad by Faith Ringgold, 1988
79.5 by 92.5 inches
in honor of Michael Jackson


2008/2009 Subway Commission
Los Angeles, CA Civic Center Stop
The mosaics are finished and we await the installation date.
Faith received a commission to design 52 mosaics for the Civic Center Subway Station in Los Angeles, California. Mosaika, a fabulous company in Montreal is fabricating the designs. Here are photos of Faith's recent visit to check on the progress of the mosaic panels. Click here to see more photos when Faith visited to Mosaica.

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A new museum is coming to Harlem!


The Faith Ringgold Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling will be sited on Sugar Hill, the epicenter of Harlem and Faith’s neighborhood of origin. A state-of-the-art “green” building design and construction is planned with contextual architectural sensitivity and innovation.
Click here for More information on the plans for the Faith Ringgold's Children's Museum . “February 11, 2008 / NY 1 video" interview at ACA gallery about the progress of the museum.


Columbia Spaectator
Ringgold looks to give back to Harlem through art
A new buildling will house the Faith Ringgold Children’sMuseum, tying art and community development together in the most direct way yet.
By Sarah Darville
Published Friday 20 November 2009 01:17am EST.

A collection of quilts and photographs wove the biography of artist Faith Ringgold and her family together with the story of Harlem on Thursday night.Ringgold, whose story quilts now hang in the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, grew up in Harlem. Her daughter, author Michele Wallace, presented the quilts at the offices of Broadway Housing Communities on 135th Street. Soon, they may hang in her own museum. Broadway Housing, an organization that works to provide affordable housing and community resources to prevent homelessness, is planning a new building on 155th Street. It will house the Faith Ringgold Children’s Museum, tying art and community development together in the most direct way yet.“read the article ”






Village Voice

A Thanksgiving Honor Roll:

NYC's Unsung Heroes

Lauding the oft-overlooked people in a city of celebrity
By Tom Robbins
Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 4:01pm

This is a story about the other New York. Week in and week out, the city is dominated by spectacles of celebrity and scandal, of politicians and moguls squandering vast fortunes on self-promotion. The other New York—the one inhabited by ordinary citizens who plug away day after day doing small good deeds, by those who fight the good fight regardless of the odds—forever gets short shrift.

“read village voice article”





Appearances


The Appearances Calendar link will lead you to more details about where and when Ms Ringgold will be making appearances. “Appearance Calendar ”



In early 2010 we will develop and try out a new program that delivers Faith Ringgold live to the classroom via Skype.


Virtual Quilt created in a workshop by the wonderful art teachers at
the North Carolina Art Education Conference
October 24, 2009







Letter to the NY Times by Faith Ringgold
May 27, 2009
It appears that the New York Times will not be running my letter to the Editor in rebuttal to the NY Times Review "Master of Story Quilts and Much More" By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO.
Florence Kennedy once told me to, "Write about you're own damn self" so I'm publishing my words, here, myself.

Dear Mr. Genocchio
Your review: Master of Story Quilts and Much More published on May 22 in the New York Region section of the New York Times is (as you wrote about “A Declaration of Independence 50 Years of Art by Faith Ringgold” at the Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers:) “not perfect.”
For one thing you completely “over looked” everything in the Political Gallery #3, in which the Declaration of Freedom and independence the titled and featured work including: illustrations, texts, story quilt and a portfolio of prints of “The Declaration of Freedom and Independence” are shown in two separate Galleries. And for another thing, there is not even a whisper about the deck of playing cards, titled “Yes I Can” which I created especially for the show, and in tribute to our first black president, Barack Obama, displayed in Jazz Gallery #1. Not to even mention the 13 quilts, paintings and prints of the “Coming to Jones Road Series” in the Jones Road Gallery #6. In which I experience my ancestors travail on the Underground Railroad some 200 years before coming to live in New Jersey myself in 1992.
One would have to see this show themselves to know all you missed. What you do not review somehow speaks much louder than what you do.
Faith Ringgold
5/27/09


Faith Ringgold
has a question for you,
“What is Art? ”



...An age old question that has lost its edge? How many people think about what art is and why people make it? If you have an idea about it lets share some thoughts on this subject. Of course when I say What is art? I also mean to say what is not art? The answer is personal and leans heavily toward the kind of art you make if you are an artist, or the kind you like, or would like to make if you are not.-Faith Go to "Ask Faith" to post your thoughts.(This message board is a free service so you will have pop ups to get rid of.) Other comments can be sent to RinggoldFaith@aol.com or (858) 576-0397.


Video by Linda Freeman

Linda Freeman's video "The Last Story Quilt" of Faith Ringgold painting.

“Photos of Faith Ringgold's show at Rutgers by Barbara Wallace ”
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