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Faith Ringgold 1930-

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Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist, lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ms Ringgold is professor emerita of the University of California, San Diego, where she taught art from 1984 until 2002.

She is the recipient of more than 75 awards including 23 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees and fellowships.

Ringgold’s art is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Art,

It is the 25th anniversary of Ringgold's first published book, Tar Beach. It has won more than 30 awards including a Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King award for the best illustrated children's book of 1991. Ringgold has written and or illustrated 20 children's books. Ms. Ringgold is represented by ACA Gallery in New York City.

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2016

Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold a prolific artist, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist, was born in Harlem, NY in 1930 and currently lives and works in Englewood, NJ.  Ms. Ringgold is professor emerita of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

There is new interest in Ringgold’s long ignored and politically charged oil paintings from the 1960’s but Ringgold has been known best for her children’s books and painted story quilts. Faith made her first quilt, Echoes of Harlem, in 1980, in collaboration with her mother, Madame Willi Posey.  Ringgold’s art is included in many public collections including; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the National Museum of American Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts to name a few.

Ringgold's first published book, Tar Beach has been in print for over 25 years and has won more than 30 awards including a Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King award for the best illustrated children's book of 1991. Ringgold has written and or illustrated 20 children's books and is in the process of doing a new book about Ancestors for Harper Collins.

Ringgold is the recipient of more than 75 awards including; the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the New York Foundation for Arts Award, numerous Lifetime Achievement Awards and 23 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees. Ms. Ringgold is represented by ACA Gallery in New York City.

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2017