Chronology

Chronology

1930 Born October 8th at Harlem Hospital in New York City to Andrew Louis Jones, Sr. and Willi Posey Jones. She has two older siblings, An-drew and Barbara. Frequently sick with asthma as a small child; art becomes a major pastime.

1942 Her family moves from the “Valley” to Sugar Hill in Harlem.

1950 Marries Robert Earl Wallace, a classical and jazz pianist while majoring in art at the City College of New York. Obtains first studio space for independent oil painting projects in their apartment at 365 Edgecombe Avenue.

1952 Has two children: Michele Faith Wallace, January 4th; Barbara Faith Wallace, December 15th.

1954 Permanent separation and divorce proceed-ings begin, completed in 1956.

1955 Graduates from the City College of New York with B.S. in Fine Art and Education. Begins teaching art in the New York City public schools (1955-1973). It is now that Faith first heard of James Baldwin through his baby sister, Paula, who was a student of Faith’s.

1957 First of many summers spent in Province-town, Massachusetts, doing oil paintings of houses, landscapes, fishing boats, ocean.

1959 Completes M.A. in art at the City College of New York.

1961 First trip to Europe (with mother and daughters) aboard the S.S. Liberte. Tours the muse-ums of Paris, Nice, Florence and Rome. Brother dies while they are in Rome, causing them to return to the U.S. abruptly. Faith’s dining area in her home becomes studio space.

1962 Marries Burdette Ringgold, May 19th.

1963 Does first political paintings. During a sum-mer at Oaks Bluff on Martha’s Vineyard, de-velops first mature painting style, content in-fluenced by writings of James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka (then Leroi Jones), which she calls “super realism.” Paints The American People series of oil paintings (1963-1967).

1964 Begins search for a New York Gallery. Writes letters to Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff in an attempt to join Spiral, the black artists group, and to exhibit in the first Black Arts Festival in Senegal. Unsuccessful on both counts.

1965 Meets Leroi Jones at his Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School in Harlem.

1966 Participates in the first black exhibition in Harlem since the ‘30s. Meets Romare Bearden, Ernie Crichlow, Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Hale Woodruff, Betty Blay-ton; first real contact with black artists. Joins Spectrum Gallery on 57th Street, Robert Newman, Director.

1967 Paints first murals: The Flag is Bleeding, U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, Die, while daughters are in Europe for the summer. First one-person show at Spectrum Gallery. Meets James Porter of Howard University who buys painting from American People series. Begins development of “Black Light” using palette of darkened colors, in pursuit of a more affirmative black aesthetic.


1968 Participates in benefit exhibition for Martin Luther King, Jr. at The Museum of Modern Art. Meets Jacob Lawrence, Henri Ghent and Ed Taylor. Initiates first demonstration of black artists at the Whitney Museum. Joins Art Workers Coalition. Meets Lucy Lippard, Carl Andre and Lil Picard. Demonstrates with Tom Lloyd, light sculptor, against MOMA to achieve a black artist wing for Martin Luther King, Jr. Instead, their efforts result in two blacks for the Board of Trustees of the museum and major exhibitions there for two artists in 1971.

1969 Paints Flag for the Moon Die Nigger as a response to first U.S. moon shot. Begins series of political posters. Daughters in Mexico for the summer. Father dies.

1970 Has second one person show: America Black, featuring “Black Light” paintings, at Spec-trum Gallery. Begins teaching at Bank Street, Pratt Institute and Wagner College. Meets Robert Morris and Poppy Johnson, through Art Strike. Participates in demonstrations of Ad Hoc Women’s Art Group against the Whitney Museum. Her particular contribu-tions results in the inclusion of Betye Saar and Barbara Chase-Riboud in the Whitney Sculp-ture Biennial, making them the first black women ever to exhibit at the Whitney. Does first dolls, Family of Woman Masks, and Slave Rape Series of paintings. Collaborates with Willi Posey (her mother, who was a fashion designer) on costumes for masks and tankas for paintings.


1971 Co-founds Where We At, black artists group. Guest curator of Where We At show at Acts of Art Gallery. Meets Kay Brown and Dinga Mc-Cannon. Does United States of Attica poster. Wins CAPS Grant to do mural for The Women’s House of Detention. As a result of doing a television show called On Free Time (PBS), hosted by Julius Lester, meets Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel and Pat Mainardi.

1972 Permanent installation at the Women’s House of Detention on Riker’s Island of For the Women’s House, which uses all-female im-agery for the first time. As a result of this Art without Walls (an artists’ group to bring art to prison inmates) is formed. Develops tankas (soft cloth frames) after seeing an exhibition of Tibetan art at the Rijk Museum in Amsterdam.Puts political posters and feminist papers in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. Participates in First American Women Artists Show in Hamburg. Begins lecture tours and traveling exhibitions to colleges and universities around the country.

1973 Ten-year retrospective at Voorhees Gallery at Rutgers University. Resigns from teaching position in New York City Public Schools to continue touring and to make art full time. Does first dolls, Family of Woman series.

1974 Develops hanging soft sculptures: Wilt and Couple series, both series feature painted coco-nut heads. Does Windows of the Wedding series, abstract paintings based on African Kuba de-sign, and uses them as environment for soft sculptures. Michele graduates from City Col-lege and Barbara completes her senior year of college at the University of London.

1975 Curates 11 in New York, black women’s show at Women’s Interarts Center. Begins to do art performances with masks and costumes. Does first stuffed figures Zora & Fish (bag man and woman), first portrait masks of Harlem Series, which includes Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Develops applique’ soft masks for workshop at Univer-sity of Wisconsin. Barbara graduates with a B.A.in Linguistics at the University of London, stays on to do graduate work.

1976 Artist-in-Residence at Wilson College, where she develops The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro, an environmental performance piece. Co-director with Monica Freeman, Margo Jefferson, Pat Jones and Michele Wallace of The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, which is held at The Women’s Interarts Center and includes exhibition of Dear Joanna letters, a documentation piece. Goes to Africa for the first time. Tours Ghana and Nigeria to see art and people.

1977 Participates in Festac 77 in Lagos, Nigeria. Does first free standing soft sculptures, Women on a Pedestal series. Begins writing autobiography Being My Own Woman.Daughter Barbara receives graduate diploma from the University of London, returns to U.S. to do Ph.D. in African Linguistics at City University Graduate Center. Mother remarries. Meets Moira Roth.

1978 Receives National Endowment for the Arts Award for sculpture. Develops Ringgold Doll and Harlem ‘78, a series of soft sculptures and public participation graffiti mural.

1979 Develops International Dolls Collection and Ringgold Doll Kits (Sew Real). Michele publishes first book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, appears on the cover of Ms. Magazine with picture of family inside.

1980 Faith and her mother begin work on final collaborative project, Echoes of Harlem, a quilt for Artist & Quilt show. Completes first draft of autobiography. Michele begins Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University. Barbara marries and receives Masters of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY).

1981 Faith and her mother work on packaging of Ringgold Doll Kits. Does Atlanta series in memory of the children killed in Atlanta. Mother dies. Barbara divorces. Michele leaves Yale and returns home.

1982 Curates the Wild Art Show at P.S. 1 for the Women’s Caucus for Art. First grandchild, Baby Faith, born. Begins painting again at MacDowell Colony(May -July): Emanon series and Baby Faith and Willi series. Michele and she perform No Name Performance #1 at Kenkelaba House. Does painted dolls. Sister dies.


1983 Begins Dah series of paintings. Initiates Upstream Women series of workshops and panels. First excerpt from autobiography published in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women, edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. Does Mother’s Quilt and first Story Quilt, Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? quilt and text. Wins Wonder Woman Award from Warner Communications. Performs No Name Performance #2 in which audience dances, speaks out and, in finale, takes over the stage.

1984 Has 20 year Retrospective at Studio Museum in Harlem. Michele Wallace edits the accompanying catalogue. Is a visiting Associate Professor at University of California in San Diego. Continues painting Dah series (California Dah) to be used as a backdrop for No Name #2. Does series of aquatints called The Death of Apartheid and participates in exhibitions organized by Artists Against Apartheid. Begins printmaking as Visiting Artist at Printmaking workshop. Does etching on canvas to be used to make Story Quilts. Michele begins teaching at University of Oklahoma in Norman.

1985 Continues Story Quilts, and develops a new story-telling performance: The Bitter Nest. Appointed to a tenured position in the Visual Art Department as full professor at the University of California in San Diego, and is now bi-coastal. Sets up bicoastal living pattern of half the year in San Diego and the other half in New York. Exhibits Flag series of paintings from ‘60’s in group exhibition; Tradition & Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade l963-1973. Barbara marries and has second baby girl, Theodora-Michele.

1986 Receives first Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art. Joins the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and prepares for solo show of Story Quilts in January of 1987. Loses weight (over 100 pounds) documenting this in a videotape, quilt and performance entitled Change. Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pounds Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt Receives Candace Award from One Hundred Black Women.

1987 Has solo show in Bernice Steinbaum Gallery with Change: Over 100 Pounds Weight Loss Performance and catalogue, followed by major articles in Arts, Art in America and other periodicals. Meets Eleanor Flomenhaft. Receives Fellowship from John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, also Public Art Fund Award from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Awarded honorary doctorate at College of Wooster, Wooster, OH. Has three one-person shows including one at The Baltimore Museum and 21 group shows, curates Home Show at Goddard Riverside Community Center. Travels to Japan for exhibit.

1988 Has solo exhibition at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Exhibits Tar Beach as part of the Woman on A Bridge Series. Performs Change 2: Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pounds Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt. Receives New York Foundation for the Arts Award (for painting); is included in Leslie Sills, “Inspirations: Stories of Women Artists for Children”

1989 Receives important honors: National Endowment For the Arts Award for painting; the La Napoule Award, to spend four months in France; the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Award; Is commissioned to create a story quilt to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the first black graduate, Gaius Bolin, of Williams College. And is included in “Stitched Memories: African American Story Quilts” exhibition at the Williams College Museum in Williamstown, Mass. Is included in a major survey traveling exhibition of women’s art, “Making Their Mark: Women Artists Moving Into the Mainstream” Receives honorary doctorate from alma mater, The City College Of New York. Oprah Winfrey commissions, "Maya's Quilt" for Maya Angelou's birthday.

1990 Opens a major retrospective traveling exhibition, “Faith Ringgold: A Twenty-Five Year Survey” starts a thirteen -museum tour at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island (FAMLI) curated by Eleanor Flomenhaft. followed by openings at The High Museum of Art at Georgia Pacific and The Arizona State Art Museum at Tempe, Arizona. Forthcoming book Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold is completed and is to be published by Crown Publishers, New York, and a silk screen edition of twenty four quilts titled Tar Beach 2 printed at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia. Creates the French Collection Series while painting in studios in Paris and at the La Napoule Chateau in the South of France. Meets Linda Freeman in La Napoule where she came to video Faith in the The Last Story Quilt.

1991 Returned to Paris and took an apartment at the Hotel Ferrandi on rue de Cher Che Midi while making sketches for part 2 (pertaining to Gertrude Stein and Josephine Baker) in the French Collection Series. Completed nine of the series and Change 3, a nude appraisal of forty years of weight loss and gain. Moved to a studio in the garment district in New York to work on a large scale mural, A Percent For Art Commission for Public School P.S. 22 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Tar Beach her first children’s book was published by Crown Publishers in January of 1991. Continued tour of “Faith Ringgold: A Twenty-Five Year Survey” at Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida; African American Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California.
Receives an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from her Alma Mater, The City College of New York and another Honorary Doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

1992 Received The New York Times Best Children’s Book Award, a Caldecott Honor for the best illustrated children’s book of 1991 and The Coretta Scott King Award for the best illustrated book by an African American. Her second children’s book, Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky, was published by Crown publishers. French Collection exhibition opened at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York City. Severed relations with the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and resumed self-representation in a new studio on West 38th Street in New York. Bought a ranch house in Englewood, New Jersey with plans to build a studio in the country. Recieved a commission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority to create two thirty foot mosaic murals in the 125th street IRT subway station platform. Continued tour of twenty-five year survey: Museum of Art Davenport, Iowa; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Women’s Center Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca., Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, Ca.; Tacoma Museum, Tacoma, Washington through the end of February 1993. Receives Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from Brockport State University in Brockport, New York and another Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.

1993 Received a National Endowment for the Arts travel award to collaborate with Moira Roth on the Moroccan Holiday the last of the French Collection. Travels to Tangier, Morocco to prepare texts and drawings for the quilt. Returns to apartment at the Hotel Ferrandi on rue de Cher Che Midi in Paris. Met Michel Fabre at the Sorbonne and talked about the African American in Paris. Published Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House at Hyperion Books. This book is based on the story quilt, The Dinner Quilt, created in 1988. She recieves an Honorary Doctorate at the California College of Arts and Crafts, meets Marlon Riggs, the celebrated filmmaker. Creates The Black Family Dinner Quilt, in tribute to Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Dorothy Height, and donates it to the museum of the National Association of Negro Women. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan mounts an exhibition of Tar Beach. Receives commission to create a nine by seventeen foot painted mural based on the life of Eugenio Maria de Hostos, the Man and His Dream for de Hostos Community College.

1994 Begins rewriting autobiography We Flew Over The Bridge with Moira Roth as editor. The first editing session begins in Paris in January during the African American in Paris Conference at the Luxembourg Gardens. Howardina Pindell, Lorna Simpson, Bette Saar, Sam Gilliam attend the conference which is organized by Raymond Saunders and Maica Sancone. Moved back to Harlem studio in preparation for building a new studio in Englewood, New Jersey. Participates in two major exhibitions abroad, Cocido Y Crudo, curated by Dan Cameron, in Madrid, Spain at the Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Cairo Biennial, in Cairo, Egypt. Joined Bob Blackburn, Mel Edwards, Kay Walkingstick, Juan Sanchez and Michael Kelly Williams in Egypt for the opening.  The exhibition slated to travel throughout East Africa and the Middle East was curated by Debbie Cullen of the Printmaking Workshop. Completed and now installed, the painted quilt, Eugenia Maria de Hostos, a Man and his Dream , now hangs in the atrium of De Hostos Community College. Also completed Le Cafe des Artistes, #11 of part 2 of the French Collection and a painted quilt entitled Marlon’s Quilt in memoriam to Marlon Riggs who died of AIDS in 1994. The sale of this quilt to benefit AIDS care and research. Receives seventh honorary doctorate from (RISD) Rhode Island School of Design. On June 10, Birdie and Faith attend a black tie dinner in the Rose Garden of the White House, seated next to Hillary Clinton. Faith delivers gifts of a life size Cassie Doll to Chelsea and a painting Faith had made for Clinton’s inauguration of the Clinton family flying from Arkansas to the White House in Washington, DC. ”Four good years 1993 to 1997 and then four more,” is written across the sky.

1995 On May 19, attends the 75th Anniversary of the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor at the White House. Is commissioned to create a benefit poster titled, Women’s Work Counts to celebrate the occasion. The original art is exhibited at the White House and later at the Department of Labor. Received the Townsend Harris Medal from the City College of New York Alumni Association. Published four books in this year: We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, (Little, Brown and Company) my first adult book, and three children’s books: My Dream of Martin Luther King, and Talking to Faith Ringgold, (Crown Publishers) an autobiography for children, with Nancy Roucher and Linda Freeman. An artist’s book: 7 Passages to a Flight was published by Brighton Press in San Diego, California. Visited Damascus, Syria when the Cairo Biennial toured the Middle East. Is now represented by the ACA Gallery in New York and has her first solo show there.

1996 Exhibits in Consensus and Conflict: The Flag in American Art, a traveling group show curated by the Whitney Museum of American Art At Champion opened on July 18, 1996. Published her fifth children’s book: Bonjour Lonnie (Hyperion) and was invited to exhibit Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger (1967) in Face a L’ Histoire at the Pompidou Center. Returned to Paris for the exhibition and stayed at the Hotel le Bretonnerie on St. Crois de Bretonnerie. Moira goes too and does first interview for the catalogue for the upcoming traveling exhibition, curated by Dan Cameron at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Dancing at the Louvre: The French and American Collections and other Story Quilts. Ringgold received her ninth Honorary Doctorate at the Russell Sage College. Crown Heights Children’s History Quilt installed at P.S. 90 in Crown Heights in Brooklyn. Ringgold begins painting the American Collection for the upcoming exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Receives a Doctor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design, and another Doctor of Fine Arts from the Russell Sage College in Boston, Massachusetts.

1997 Receives Honorary Doctorate of Education at Wheelock College, in Boston, a Doctor of Philosophy from Molloy College in New York, and New Jersey Artist of the Year Award from New Jersey Center for the Arts. Spent most of 1997 in California painting the American Collection Series while her studio and garden in Englewood, New Jersey was under construction.

1998 The Invisible Princess was published by Crown Books for Young Readers. Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold’s French Collection and Other Story Quilts, a traveling show curated by Dan Cameron for the New Museum in New York City, opens at the Akron Museum in Akron, Ohio.

1999 Art studio and garden completed on Jones Road in Englewood, New Jersey. First Anyone Can Fly Foundation Garden Party on October 1, 1999. The Foundation’s mission to expand the art establishment canon to include artists working in the tradition of the African Diaspora (born from 1765 to 1920) and to introduce those artists and art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences. Began a series of paintings (Faith’s Garden Party #1,2 and 3) of the attendees from photographs taken of them in the garden. Coming to Jones Road, Part 1, a series of eight story quilts “inspired” by neighbors’ attempts to prevent construction of studio are begun in new studio. Published three children’s books: If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks for Simon and Schuster, Cassie’s Colorful Day and Counting to Tar Beach for Crown Books for Young Readers. Receives an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Bank Street College of Education and a Doctor of Fine Arts from  Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

2000 Racial Questions and Answers www.Racialquestions.com, a conceptual study begins an online survey of race and color in America. Coming to Jones Road Part 1 completed, and a solo exhibition opens at ACA Galleries in New York City. Receives the 31st NAACP Image Award for Best Children’s Book If a Bus Could Talk:The Story of Rosa Parks; A New York Chapter Continental Societies Inc. First Annual Women of Distinction Award; and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan, Artist in residency at Pasadena City College.

2001 Publishes Cassie’s Word Quilt, eleventh children’s book with Crown Books for Young Readers. Begins a series of Jazz Paintings in gouache and acrylics on paper.
Receives an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from William Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Chicago Institute of the Arts in Chicago, Illinois; totaling sixteen honorary doctorates received since 1986. The Anyone Can Fly Foundation, Inc. sets up a website to announce its programs at www.Anyonecanflyfoundation.org.

2002 The Anyone Can Fly Foundation receives (5(O)1(c)3 tax exempt status and begins a Foundation Art Collection to benefit the Foundations Granting Programs. The last in a series of three Garden Party paintings of the attendees (1999, 2000, 2001) is completed. Retires from teaching at the University of California in San Diego. Freedom of Speech, a painting executed in Paris, France in 1990 (created for the exhibition Celebrating America’s Great Rights-The Artist’s Perspective at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000 and made into a poster in 2002. Rather quickly it became a Met Best-Seller.

2003 On The Steps at Uris Library, a commissioned painting for the Columbia University Women’s School of Business, was installed in the School of Business at Columbia University in May. Completed Illustrations for Oh Holy Night, a children’s book of Christmas Carols with a CD by The Boys Choir of Harlem to be published by Harper Collins in 2004. Contracted to do four more books with Harper Collins to be completed by 2006. Begins painting Jazz series of quilts titled Soul Suite #1: Movement in Black and Blue; Soul Suite #2: Mama Can Sing; Soul Suite #3: Papa Can Blow. Street Story Quilt (1985) purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990 was placed on display in an exhibition called: Modern Story Tellers on the first floor of the Lila Atcheson Wallace Wing (Gallery 6) in the Metropolitan on May 6 through December. A Metropolitan Museum of Art on-line exhibition: Artists View New York also includes Street Story Quilt and provides downloadable access to the text. A poster of Street Story Quilt is included in the exhibition resource kit: Art by African-American Artists: Selections From the 20th Century. One copy is free to New York Public Schools for the asking. Promoted by Tonya Lewis and Spike Lee.

2004  Traveling exhibition (continued): Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (January 10 – February 15)

Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA Solo exhibition, December 19, 2003 - February 6, 2004

2004  American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Awarded the Academy Award in Art, March 8 - April 4

The Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, LA,

New York, New York, March 29 - August 20

Farmington Public Schools, Farmington, CT April 6 - May 19

(Traveling exhibition)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Concert by The Boys Choir of Harlem with a reception and book signing for O Holy Night, Christmas With the Boys Choir of Harlem (Illustrations by Faith Ringgold), December 15, 2004

2005 Jazz Stories 2004: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow, ACA Galleries,

New York, December 15, 2004 - January 29, 2005 (solo exhibition)

Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA,

January 5 - March 20, 2005 (Traveling solo exhibition)

Picture Stories: A Celebration of African American Illustrators,

Traveling exhibition organized by Smith Kramer, Inc., Spring 

2004– 2008

Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, August –December

(Traveling solo exhibition)

2006              

Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Fairfield,

Connecticut, January 28 – March 4, 2006 (Traveling exhibition)

Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT,

August 4, 2006-March 4, 2007 (Solo exhibition)

Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum, Jacksonville, FL

October 12, 2006-January 19, 2007 (Solo exhibition

Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, November 15, 2006-

April 22, 2007      

Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA,

December 15, 2006-April 30, 2007 (Traveling solo exhibition)

2007 

 Metropolitan Transportation Authority awards Faith with a commission to do 52 civic center mosaics

Traveling group exhibition in Japan opening at Nihonbashi        

Mitsukoshi in Tokyo (4 Story quilts) January-December

Portraiture Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

February 16 – August 19

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Museum of

Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, March 4 – July 30

(Traveling group exhibition)

Wheaton College, Norton, MA, October 11 – November 9

(Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky)

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, December 15, 2007 – March 23, 2008 (Traveling solo exhibition)

2008 

Art in the Atrium, Inc., Creative Destinations, 16th Anniversary Exhibition of African American Art, Morris County Administration and Records Bldg, Morristown, NJ

January 25 – March 25

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham City Jail,

Illustrated with 8 serigraphs by Faith Ringgold, Afterword by Dr. C.T. Vivian, Commissioned by The Limited Editions Club, NY

Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

June 10 – July 19

Return: Home, Arts Council of Princeton, Contemporary Arts Center,

Princeton, NJ, June 5 – September 6

Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans in 19th Century American Art,

Fenimore Art Museum, New York Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY,

August 23 – December 31, 2008.  Traveling exhibition

                       

Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College,

Keene, NH, September 8 – November 23

(Traveling solo exhibition)

Bloodline: A Quilt Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University,

Terre Haute, IN, September 11 – October 4

Art of Resonating Fiber, Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, Florida A & M

University, Tallahassee, FL, October 3, 2008 – January 23, 2009

Transformation AGO: Contemporary Art, 1960-1970, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November 14, 2008-2009

2009

If I Didn’t Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories,

The Park School, Baltimore, MD, January 30 – March 30.  Catalogue available.

Faith Ringgold, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA,

February 9 – May 30, 2009

Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House: The Original Illustrations, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, February 2 – May 13, 2009

Faith Ringgold, ABC Carpet, New York, NY March 1 – 31, 2009

Declaration of Independence: 50 Years of Art by Faith Ringgold,

Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, Mason Gross Galleries,

New Brunswick, NJ, May 13 – June 26.  

On May 20, 2009 Faith receives an Honorary Doctorate Degree along with Sonny Rollins.

2010 
Oct 15, 2010 - Jan 9, 20177

Seductive Subversion, Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968, The

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, January 15-March 15;

Traveling to: Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NB, July 30-Sept 24;

Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY,
Tufts University Art Gallery, January 20-April 3, 2011

Feb 6
Two Black Women: Faith Ringgold and Aminah Brenda Lynn

Robinson, ACA Galleries, New York, February 6–March 20, 2010

Feb 12
Nouns: Children’s Book Artists Look at People, Places and Things,

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, February 12-July 11

Sept 12
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY, September 12-December 23

Faith Ringgold: Recent Work, ACA Galleries, NY

December 2-January 29, 2011

Feb 26, 20110
2010 Black Art History Makers Award

presented by National Conference of Artists of New York

February 26, 2010 (snowed out)

Feb 27, 2010 
New York City Council Citation and Councilman Robert Jackson

2010

June and July 2010 Mosaics installed at the Los Angeles Civic Center

On June 27,  2010 At the ACFF garden party Faith was presented with the Black Art History Makers Award from the Artists of New York award because the February ceremony had been snowed out.

Friday, May 14, 2010
Faith Ringgold received her 22nd Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts at their Commencement ceremony

PAFA

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 7pm,  
A Conversation with Faith Ringgold and Lisa Farrington, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

June 22, 2010
 Lecture at the Chicago public library , Chicago, IL 60605

June 25, 2010 
Commencement address for the first graduating class. Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School 276 West 151 Street Manhattan, New York 10039

November 21, 2009 - May 9, 2010 
Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design and the studio quilt curated by Michael James and Sandra Sider International Quilt Study Center

University of Nebraska – Lincoln International Quilt Study Center and Museum

review (exhibition)

February 4, 2010 - May 9, 2010 
The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists Columbia Museum of Art 1515 Main Street Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art (exhibit)

April 11- June 27,  2010 
Assembling Narratives: Quilting Impulses in Contemporary Art Dorsky Gallery Long Island City, NY 11101 exhibition brochure

May 4 - October 30, 2010 
Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd street www.mcny.org (exhibit)

September 12, 2010 - December 19, 2010

American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960's

Will feature the artist's two earliest series, American People (1962-1967) and Black Light (1967-1969),which have not been seen together since they were first exhibited in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with catalog.Neuberger Museum of ArtPurchase College State University of New York735 Anderson Hill Road  Purchase, NY 10577-1400

2011 

Jan 27, 2011 
Interviewed by Kevin Alexander for PBS special on the MTA's 50th anniversary

Jan 31, 2011 
Faith lectures in Savannah, GA at SCAD

On Feb 10, 2011 
the College Art Association honors Faith with the Distinguished Feminist Award. Event was held at the Met museum.

Feb 2011
Faith Ringgold works to complete a new book about Henry Ossawa Tanner for PAFA

Feb 22, 2011 
NY 1, Stephanie Simon TV spot at ACA gallery

Feb 25, 20011 
Award from John Jay College

Feb 28, 2011 

Harlem Hospital Book Club 

March 9, 2011 

BHC Lit World New York, NY

April 7, 2011 

Neuberger, Talk for Tracy Fitzpatrick’s class 

Purchase, NY

May 12, 2011

Award from Womanspace 

Forrestal, NJ  

May 18, 2011 

Pennsylvia Acadamy of Fine Art Recption  PAFA 

June 7, 2010 

Women Art an Revolution film screening in NYC

Aug 13, 2011

Upstairs Gallery at L'Elegance Linens and Fine Furnishings 

Oak Bluffs, MA

Sept 11, 2011 

Peace Quilt exhibition in the education center

Met Museum  New York, NY

Sept 25, 2011 

The Philadelphia Chapter of the Links 

Philadelphia, PA

Oct 15, 2011 P

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts PAFA, reception

Philadelphia, PA

Oct 20,2011

Thelma Golding Award

AskWith Forum 

Harvard 

Cambridge, MA 

Nov 11, 2011 

Lecture and quilt workshop

Foundry Art Centre

St. Charles, MO (Nov 10-12)

Nov 17, 2011 

Lecture

The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University 

Venue: Marran Theater, 

Lesley U, 34 Mellen Street, 

Cambridge, Boston, MA

Dec 1, 2011 

Lecture

Miami Art Museum  

Miami, FL

2012
Feb 2, 2012

American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, 

Traveling exhibition organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, 

Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase,NY on view at 

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
February 2 – May 19, 2012

Feb 8, 2012
Magical Visions, University Museums, 

The University of Delaware, 

Newark, DE,

February 8 – June 30, 2012

Feb 10

Thread of Life, Museum of Fine Arts, 

Florida State University, 

Tallahassee, FL

February 10 – March 25, 2012

March 2
Faith Ringgold Traveling Survey,

Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO

March 2 – June 1, 2012

March 22, 2012
Lecture, More Than 60 Years Making Art

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Atlanta, GA

March 29, 2012

Lecture and quilt workshop, More Than 60 Years Making Art 
Randolph Macon College

Ashland, VA

May 11, 2012
Lecture, 
Florida State U of Fine Arts
Tallahassee, Florida

July 25, 2012
Lecture, More Than 60 Years Making Art
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio

Sept 6
Honoring Faith, 

Traveling exhibition 

organized by The City College of New York, 

New York, NY, 

September 6, 2012 – May 15, 2013

2013
May 10, 2013

Generations, 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Florida State University, 

Tallahassee, FL

May 10 – July 12, 2013

May 15, 2013

Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, England

artlyst on 27 June 2013

American contemporary artist Faith Ringgold receiving Honorary Doctorate at the Royal College of Art graduation ceremony on Friday 28 June 2013.

Royal College of Art Honorands are awarded for their significant contribution to culture and industry both internationally and in the UK. Personalities from the spheres of fine art, design, fashion, textiles and the applied arts and humanities are amongst those honoured by the College in recognition of their achievements...American-born Faith Ringgold has had an illustrious career as painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist. Professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego where she taught art from 1987 until 2002, Faith’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries world-wide and is included in many eminent private and public art collections. Written and illustrated by Faith, her children’s book If a Bus Could Talk; The Story of Ms. Rosa Parks won the NAACP's Image Award in 2000.

Read more at: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/cindy-sherman-presented-with-honorary-do...

June 5, 2013 
Ringgold attends a reception at the White house

June 18 and 19, 2013
American People Black Light exhibition opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Faith sits on a panel with Tracy Fitzpatric and Thom Collins, has interviews with the press and attends several receptions.

July 13, 2013
Art Hamptons  2013 Artist Lifetime Achievement Honoree
http://arthamptons.com/faith-ringgold-2013-artist-lifetime-achievement-honoree/

June 21
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, 

Traveling exhibition 

organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, 

Purchase College, SUNY, 

Purchase, NY 

on view at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 

June 21 – November 10, 2013

July 28, 2013
NPR Week-end editions with Susan Stamburg
Stories Of Race In America Captured On Quilt And Canvas
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/28/205773230/stories-of-race-in-america-captured-on-quilt-and-canvas

August 13, 
NPR Radio interview for Tell Me More

August 15, 2013
Etched in Collective History, 

Birmingham Museum of Art, 

Birmingham, Al,

August 15 – November 15, 2013

Sept 12, 2013
Conversation with Michele Wallace at the
University of Texas at Austin 
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Austin, Texas

http://www.utexas.edu

Sept 13, 2013
Do You See What I See? 

A Fine Art Experience for Children and Families, 

Traveling exhibition 

organized by La Napoule Art Foundation, 

Clews Center for the Arts, 

The Freight Building, 

Denver, CO, 

September 13 – October 14, 2013

Sept 13, 2013
Award from the National Black Arts Festival
Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University

http://nbaf.org/    Atlanta, Georgia

Seated: Faith Ringgold, Anna Marie Horsford,
Michael Lomax, Pam Grier and
Amiri Baraka flanked by their awards presenters

Sept 19, 2013
Lecture

3pm Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario 

http://www.queensu.ca

Sept 26, 2013
Finishes painting the book, Harlem Renaissance  Party for Harper Collins

Oct 1, 2013
Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas, 

Traveling exhibition organized by ExhibitsUSA, Mid-American Arts Alliance

 on view at John Jay Art Center, 

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 

New York, NY, 

October 1, 2010-December 10, 2013

2014
Jan 17, 2014 FR attends Ameri Baraca's funeral


January 17 - April 13, 2014
WOMEN CHOOSE WOMEN AGAIN
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 26, 1 pm - 4 pm
Visual Art Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901

See the catalog on-line

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey 


January 26 attends Women Choose Women luncheon/ reception


January 28, 2014 
Faith Ringgold attends Art Miami


Feb 11, 2014  
Print design proof accepted by the NY print club


Feb 12, 2014  
Volunteer visit to Harlem Hospital Schools

February 3, 2014 – April 10, 2014

Body Conscious Exhibition

Laia Abril, Beth B., Maureen Connor, Katya Grokhovsky, Ariane Lopez-Huici, L.A. Raeven, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Ivonne Thein

Curated by Emily L. Newman

Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Campus Center, Main Level, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Route 107, Old Westbury, New York 11568 

For further information about the exhibition, please contact Gallery Director Hyewon Yi at yih@oldwestbury.edu or 646-421-5863. Please visit our gallery Facebook  


Feb 19 -22, 2014  
Artists in residency at Notre Dame University, worked on developing a print with Joe Sugura, gave a lecture and 2 workshops.

Feb 28, 2014
FR Appearance Mickelton, NJ school


March 5, 2014
FR attends the Post Picasso exhibition at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain. Faith Ringgold's painting, "Die" was included in this exhibition

POST-PICASSO: CONTEMPORARY REACTIONS

MUSEU PICASSO, BARCELONA

March 6 – June 29,  2014

Vernissage and press conference: 5th March 2014

Curator: Michael FitzGerald

This is the first exhibition dedicated to tracing the impact of Picasso on international contemporary art. Curated by renowned expert Michael FitzGerald, the show will explore the considerable influence of Picasso's oeuvre on the art of today.


March 6, 2014
FR Appearance San Jose Quilt Museum


March 7, 2014
 FR Appearance at Art in action, Menlo Park, Ca

March 30 - June 8, 2014
Stories and Journeys: 
The Art of Faith Ringgold and Aminah Robinson
Mattatuck Museum
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702
(203) 753-0381 http://www.mattatuckmuseum.org

April 5, 2014
FR Attended Paper Jam Gala to benefit the Neuberger Art Museum inn Purchase, NY (donated MLK book)


April 25, 2014
FR Went to the Guggenheim with Michele Wallace for the Carrie Mae Weems event


April 26, 2014
Created a globe as a donation for the Pure Earth Fundraising event and attended gala

April 29, Juried art work for:
TCNJ’s 2014 K-12 New Jersey Student Art Exhibition
Art, Innovation, and Ideas
Art Exhibition: June 1 – 22, 2014

May 2 – June 2, 2014
Billboard: Faith Ringgold Groovin High
Next to the High Line at 18th Street and 10th Avenue See more at: http://art.thehighline.org/project/faithringgold/#sthash.ozJ5BtBk.dpuf

May 9, 2014
FR attended Authors night for the Thurgood Marshall Academy


May 14 -15, 2014
Lecture appearance for Arts at Large in Miwaukee, WI
http://artsatlargeinc.org


May 21, 2014
AWARD: Peace Development Fund honors FAITH RINGGOLD
for her commitment to social justice @ ACA GALLERIES

October 9, 2014

Honored by the National Association of Women Artsists (NAWA) 125th Anniversary

Location: Wald and Po Kim Gallery

417 Lafayette Street, Fourth Floor, NYC

October 14, 2014
Groundswell Award

NeueHouse, 

110 East 25th Street, NYC

October 15, 2014

Artists' Fellowship, Inc.

Benjamin West Clinedinst Award 

Location:  The Manhattan Penthouse, 80 Fifth Avenue, 

New York City

2015

January  2015 Harlem Renaissance Party released/ published by Harper Hollins

April 24, 2015
Faith attends an artist reception at the Whitney for, America is Hard to See, inaugural exhibition at the Whitney's new site. Artwork included: Women Free Angela, 1971. NYC

June 20, 2014 Attends conference in San Diego and collects an award from the

American Association of University Women (AAUW), 

2015 AAUW Alumnae Recognition Award

Conference in San Diego, CA 

AAUW Creative Arts Award Fellowship in 1976 

Aug 2015 Faith finishes book, We Came to America (Random House/Knopf) release date May 2016

Sept 11, 2015 Signs paperwork for the Faith Ringgold study room at the David Driskell Center, University of Maryland

Sept 15, 2015 Attends auction at Swann gallery. Maya's Quilt of life sells for over $400,000. to Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas.

October 4, 2015. Picasso's studio (French Collection quilt) included in an exhibition in Paris.
Picasso.Mania 
October 7, 2015 - February 29, 2016
The Grand Palais
Paris, France
http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/picassomania

October 8, 2015
Birthday and ACFF auction at ACA Gallery

Jan 27
Harlem Renaissance Party book published by Harper Collins is released

December 2015
A Letter to My Daughter Michele, Faith self published



2016

March 18-19, 2016   Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

April 7, 2016 Swann Auction

Mark Rossier, Faith Ringgold and Judy Brodsky

April 12, 2016 NYFA, Hall of Fame Award

April 13, 2016 Lecture at Rhode Island School of Design


April 13, 2013  RISD lecture


May 10, 2016 We Came to America, book release




May 17, 2016  City Arts Award Gala Dinner. Faith made an
 award brick and presented it ti Elly Flomenhaft







July 14, 2016  MoMA installs, Die their new acquisition. 
Faith Ringgold in background with unknown museum visitor. 

Aug 4, 2016 The Enduring Power of Faith Ringgold’s Art, article on Artsy

Sept 9, 2016 Talk at the Met Museum

Oct 18, 2016 Lecture ay U of Iowa

Oct 26, 2016 Appearance at the Newark Museum of Art for Newark 350 a Commissioned work 






Nov 12, 2016 Lecture at the Museum of Sonoma, California

Nov 30, 2016  Lecture at the Herron School in Indianapolis

Dec 7, 2016  Conversation at MOMA

Anne Umland, Faith Ringgold, and Thomas Lax at MoMA last night, with paintings by Ringgold from 1964 on the screen.

ARTNEWS 

2017

Jan 18, 2017
Black America TV show with Carol Jenkins, CUNY TW, NYC

Jan 19, 2017 
Medal of Honor, National Arts Club in New York

Award was presented by the NAC President, Linda Zagaria and Master of Ceremonies and Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee, Nicholas D. Lowry.

Jan 26, 2018   AARP Article on Quiltuduko, Faith Ringgold: Artist, Author… Game Inventor?


Feb 28 - March 20, 2017
Chateau LaNapoule, France
Ancestors Project part 2
Faith Ringgold, Grace Matthews and Linda Freeman

April 5, 2017 MAD dinner
April 6, 2017 Smithsonian video tapes Faith's acceptance of award
April 21, 2017  Opening reception of "We Wanted a Revolution" at the Brooklyn Museum.
April 26, 2017  Smithsonian Award. Dorian Bergen accepts the award in Washington, DC on Faith's behalf.
May 13, 2017   Faith attends TMAL luncheon
June 8, 2017  Faith attends an event at MAD
June 22    ACFF Ancestors painting workshop at TMALS
June 25, 2017  ACFF garden party honoring Beverly McIver
Sept 14, 2017  Faith goes to the Brooklyn Museum 
Sept 25, 2017  MAD museum filming for award ceremony/ dinner
Oct 2 Artsy video and interview

Oct 6-8, 2017 Michele and Faith travel to Boston for Faith's induction into the American Academy of Arts and Science






Chronology  2018

Jan 13-14, 2018 Faith and Michele travel to Los Angeles for, "We Wanted a Revolution" exhibition closing and symposium. Exhibition Oct 13- Jan 14, 2018

Moira Roth and Faith Ringgold at the
California African American Museum on Los Angeles, CA 

Jan 11, 2018 " Faith Ringgold’s Searing Portraits of a Racially Divided America"  Article on Artsy

Feb 1-4, Faith and Michele travel to Bentonville, AK/ Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art for the "Soul of a Nation" opening and symposium.


Feb 15-17, 2018 Trip to Yale. Timothy Dwight College hosts Faith with the Chubb Fellowship. 
Feb 15 Chubb lecture  , Mary Lui announces that Faith Ringgold  wins the Grace Hopper window commission 
Feb 16 Faith and Grace present a quilt workshop with TD students and staff



Feb 23 - April 28
Exhibition: 
Pippy Houldsworth  gallery hosts a Faith Ringgold exhibition

Faith Ringgold: Paintings and Story Quilts, 1964-2017
23 February 2018 – 28 April 2018

March 6, 2018  David Rockefeller Award Luncheon, MoMA honoring Oprah winfrey

March 12, 2018 Great Grandson, Boreous is born

March 27, 2018  Ancestor's Exhibition and lecture at Benedict College

April 16-15, 2018 Trip to Europe

April 19, 2018 Faith will speak at the Tate Modern


April 23, 2018 
Faith lecture at Humbolt  University in Berlin
Distinguished W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hörsaal 1.101, Dorotheenstraße 24
18:30 h

April 24 
Exhibition: opening reception of Faith Ringgold solo show at Berlin Weiss Gallery

2019

Jan 13, 2109
exhibition: Let Me Tell You a Story
The Arts Club 40 Dover Street 
Mayfair, London  W1S 4NP 

March 9, 2019 Faith attends the Art Fair at the Armory, NYC

April 2, 2019 ACFF auction at the Sugar Hill Children's Musem, NYC

April 17-23 BBC films documentary filming of Faith

May 7, 2019 Faith attends NAWA lunch with Pauline Chernichaw

May 11 & 18, 2019 Wise Get wild party at ACA

June 2 - 9 Faith travels with Michele to London for the opening of Faith's  solo show, "Faith Ringgold" at the Serpentine Gallery.
Also in attendance at the opening events; Grace & Kyle Matthews, Pauline Chernichaw, Dorian, Vaughn and Casey Bergen.

June 6 - Sept 8, 2019 "Faith Ringgold" solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London
catalog and exhibition guide

Sept 10, 2019 Sugar Hill event with Alvin Hall

October 6, 2019. ACFF Garden Party at BHC

October 11, 2019 MoMA re-opens after renovation. Moves Faith Ringgold's,  Die into gallery with Picasso

Faith Ringgold and Anne Umland

Nov 20, 2019    Faith and Michele tour exhibition at the Whitney followed by a dinner

Dec 5-7, 2019 Art Basal Miami

Dec 8, 2019 ACFF Holiday Party


2020

January 13-23, 2020     Grace in NJ, Faith and Grace work on Yale window revisions and on Age-ing-a-ling

February 1, 2020      Burdette Ringgold (1929-2020) passes.

March 15, 2020      Quarantine Covid-19 Pandemic strikes. Michele and Barbara stay on Jones Rd with Faith.

April 2020             Grounds and gardens redesigned on Jones Road

April 4 - Jan 10, 2021 Exhibition; Faith Ringgold. Bildmuseet, Umeå University Sweden

June 12, 2020         NY Times profile piece by Bob Morris, " Faith will keep fighting back"

June 18, 2020        MoMA Vitual Views live streaming interview with Faith & Anne Umland

June 27- Aug 30    Exhibition: Soul of a Nation, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 

July 15                    Art News Zoom for future article

Aug 1-12                Exhibition: Flag Project at Rockefeller Plaza

2021         Basketball Court painted with Faith's art in Harlem by Project Backboard on St                        

                        Nickolas Ave

2022

Feb 14 -June 4, 2022 Faith Ringgold: American People: at the New Museum, NYC exhibition

travels to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and to the Picasso Museum in Paris

May 11, 2022 Mount Sinai Honorary Degree

May 31, 2022 John Jay College Honorary Degree

June 8, 2022 Time Magazine 100 Most influential People of the Year