Appearance 2019

Faith Ringgold Appearance Information

Contact: Grace Matthews
(858) 576-0397 phone/fax (M-TH 9am-4pm Pacific time)
ringgoldfaith@aol.com

See Ms. Ringgold’s images, biography, chronology, awards, hear and download her Anyone Can Fly song, and see a video excerpt from a past lecture.

Lecture

Program
Ms Ringgold's program for includes a 2 hour slide lecture accompanied by her daughter, Michele Wallace followed by Q and A and one book signing. The program can be modified for children. The schedule should not exceed a four hour block of time. Select one of the following lecture titles:


Descriptions

Faith Ringgold: More than 60 years
In this survey lecture Ms. Ringgold begins in the early 1960's with political imagery and first hand accounts about the civil rights movement in the "American People Series." Her inspiring, often humorous and always very human stories will illustrate her life's work as an artist, activist, author, teacher and parent through the evolution of an awesome body of work that contains more than 100 paintings. Images from the Women on a Bridge Series, 1988, The French Collection, 1991, The American Collection, 1997 and the Coming to Jones Rd Series 2000 will be included. Ms. Ringgold will customize this lecture to focus on a specific painting series or related theme as per your request.

Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Children's Books
This lecture focuses on storytelling and the combination of image and text. It begins with the story quilts of the 1980's, and moves between images from books to images on quilts. Hear the story about how Ms. Ringgold's first children's book, Tar Beach began as a painting and evolved into an award-winning children's book. Adults may request to hear the dramatic story of; The Bitternest Series, The Change Series or Street Story Quilt. Young children can sing "Anyone Can Fly", hear about Martin Luther King, If a bus Could Talk: the Story of Rosa Parks and Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky. This lecture is great for educators and children and will be tailored to fit your audience.


Follow this link to watch a video of Ms. Ringgold’s lecture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-c8NP0kQzQ

Kuba Quilt Design Workshop

Kuba Quilt design workshop

American Dream Quilt workshop

Art making workshops
The American Dream quilt making workshop, Kuba in the classroom, and the portrait wrap doll workshop are hands on creative workshops designed for educators and children. Each workshop will be tailored to fit your needs. Grace Matthews will work with your venue to design your program and Ms. Matthews accompany Ms. Ringgold to assist when a workshop is requested.
workshops: http://gracematthews.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html

Portrait doll workshop

Fees

Lecture
HONORARIUM: one day: $15,000. and the cost of a 2nd consecutive day is: $13,000.00.

For lecture appearances outside the USA add $3000 (subject to change).

Plus all fees for: transportation, hotel and meals. The honorarium is to be paid the same day as the lecture to Faith Ringgold, Inc, which is a corporation registered in the state of NJ. Your state should not withhold taxed from that payment.

Ms Ringgold will have an assistant travel with her and those expenses must also be accommodated.


Appearance (no lecture)
The fee for an appearance with no lecture, performance or interview and outside of the local NJ/NYC area, where travel is required is $6,000.

The fee for local appearances in NJ/NYC (within a 2 hour travel distance of Ms. Ringgold's home) where no lecture, no performance and/or no speaking and no interview is requested is $4000.00 and transportation must be provided.

Workshop
The fee for a hands on art-making workshop which may only be booked with a lecture is an additional $4000.00 plus the cost of materials. When a workshop is booked Grace Matthews will attend to all the details and will travel to your venue to facilitate the workshop along with Ms. Ringgold. Additional expenses will include Grace's travel, hotel, and cost of materials.

Doll Workshop

Skype in the Classroom (click for details)
The fee for a virtual Q and A visit Skype in the Classroom is $500.



Exhibitions
Contact Dorian Bergen at ACA Gallery, NYC (212) 206-8080 info@acagalleries.com to arrange a Faith Ringgold solo exhibition.

To preview an optional independent group show with artists: Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman and Grace Matthews http://gracematthews.blogspot.com/2007/09/1.html and http://ancestorsproject.blogspot.com/




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Send to Grace at : Ringgoldfaith@aol.com

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Reviews/ Thank You


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What a wonderful day we had yesterday. Faith was absolutely inspiring; the lecture was fantastic; we had a great audience for the lecture and the book signing went on from 9:30 to nearly midnight! Faith must be exhausted!

Rebecca Massie Lane
Director of Sweet Briar College Art Gallery,
Arts Management Program Museum
Sweet Briar, VA 24595

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Dear Faith,
Words are inadequate to express the depth of our gratitude and appreciation for your impressionable 2- day visit at P.S. 181. The building is still buzzing with vibrant energy and enthusiasm. Your slide presentation and commentary was remarkable. The students literacy experience was deeply enriched by your visiting the classes and interacting with them via accountable talk and affording the students a forum for questions and answers. Your willingness to do so many autographs amazed me. A more formal acknowledgement will follow. Thanks also for your lovely donation of books to the students of P.S.181. My special thanks to Grace your assistant , for the insurmountable amount of time and energy she expended on this endeavor. We are eternally grateful for 2 UNFORGETTABLE days. Lowell (Coleman, Principal PS 181 NYC)

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race, it was such a pleasure to have Ms. Ringgold at our conference as the keynote speaker. I would reccommend having her speak to any group interested. We had over 400 people in the audience and the responses I got were that she was fabulous and very insightful. Many teachers would like a copy of the story she read at the beginning of her presentation. Is that available? I thoroughly enjoyed how she told the story of her life through her art. She was very generous with her time and was willing to take the later flight if there were books that still needed signed. I was glad to hear that she enjoyed what we planned for her birthday. Nebraska teachers were delighted to share her special day with her. I know the singers haven't forgot that Ms. Ringgold would like a recording of what they sung. They were honored to perform for her birthday. I would like to thank you also for your help and patience to make this conference a great success.

Here are some comments from our evaluations about the lecture:
What a marvel...to hear her speak was so worthwhile:)

Compassionate.

Awesome lecture!!

Unbelievable!

Wonderful. Fabulous!

Off the chart!!!!!!

Wonderful!!!

Book Signing awesome!

Thanks!

What a great conference!

Thanks Omaha!

I think Faith Ringgold made the conference! I'll never forget!

Fantastic event

Feel free to use any of these for future events. Thanks again!!!!!!!

Angie Fischer
OPS Art Supervisor


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Hello! I just returned last night from a Faith Ringgold appearance at Aquinas College and am just awestruck at the energy and inspiration Ms. Ringgold had.

I am interested in booking Ms. Ringgold for our school. If this is possible, please let me know the details of what we need to do. Thank you so very much!
Molly Vredevelt
Art Teacher
Excel Charter Academy

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Faith's visit to Grand Rapids and Aquinas College October 12th and 13th....
We are nothing but pleased with Faith's visit here....it was a total success from our viewpoint.

If there is anything that I might suggest when Faith is scheduled to work with school children is to be sure to have the client get greater clarity on how much time is ideal for Faith to work with each age group. It did seem that she had planned more for her presentations with children than what our schedule allowed. More communication prior to the event about what the "ideal" schedule might be (when there are various age groups involved) would be helpful. We did have some AV issues during our school event which did not help the flow... obviously,that was a problem on our end, not Faith's.

I want to personally thank Faith for her visit here....I have heard numerous comments about what a "gift" we, as a Women's Studies group, gave the community with your visit here....you are so inspiring to all you come in contact with. I'm thankful to have had the privilege of spending two days with you.


Sincerely,
Margaret Cheff

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Dear Faith,
I so enjoyed meeting you and I feel as though I made a new friend. Your lectures, work and you are truly inspirational and I really believe anyone CAN fly!

The feedback from the teachers and students from both Shenandoah Middle School and Southside Elementary has been tremendous. I think they will never forget the day they "met" Ms. Faith Ringgold.

I will follow you and your work and wish you the best of luck with the launch of your new museum and school.


Sincerely,
Hope Torrents
Lowe Art Museum
University of Miami
August 2012


Wise Faith Ringgold -
Appreciation to you for your visit to Tallahassee Mother's Day Weekend 2012.
You are a generous, exciting & invigorating spirit of unboundful talent.
Thank you also for reading from your bullying poetry.
The visit is a great gift to our community.
Wish you had been " Coming to Tallahassee Road."
It would have been a different story.
Happiness Always to you, Birdie and Your Family.
jan godown annino




Contact: Grace Matthews
(858) 576-0397 M-TH 9am to 4pm pacific time
ringgoldfaith@aol.com


Video of Faith Ringgold
lecturing

Crystal Bridges Lecture April 2016

Published on Apr 5, 2016

Artist Faith Ringgold speaks about her career of more than 60 years, with particular focus on Maya’s Quilt, inspired by Maya Angelou and on view in Crystal Bridges’ 1940s to Now Gallery. Ringgold provides an overview of her fascinating career, beginning in the early 1960s with the artist’s first-hand accounts of the Civil Rights Movement and the political imagery in her American People Series. Ringgold’s inspiring, often humorous, and always human stories illustrate her life’s work as an artist, activist, author, teacher, and parent through the evolution of an amazing body of work, including her well-known story quilts.

Video of Faith Ringgold at SCAD on Jan 31, 2011

Click here to see a video of a Faith Ringgold lecture