Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold is a black female artist who creates personal narratives through her artwork, which have been made on quilts. Quilt-making is a tradition both in female art and African arts and she has found a way to beautifully combine the two while also meeting her economic needs when she was a new and inspiring artist. She has now gone beyond quilt-making and expanded into other ways of making art, including publishing children's books, which she also illustrates. She has become well known and renowned, as she has won many honorary art awards across the country.
"I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy."
-Faith Ringgold
I have included a video from Ringgold's PBS ART21 segment.
"I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy."
-Faith Ringgold
I have included a video from Ringgold's PBS ART21 segment.
View more artwork by Faith Ringgold
Lesson Connection
A lesson adaptation of Faith Ringgold's artwork could be one where the students narrate an adversity that they had overcome. Faith's work speaks volumes about over coming adversity, in being a female artist, in being a black artist, and over coming economical obstacles in her own life. Students could view and discuss Faith's work and then reflect on their own life to create an art piece of their own.