Ringgold, Faith Willi Jones (1930-2024)

Born Faith Ringgold is a painter and sculptor. She enrolled in City College of New York for art education and received her degree in 1955. She earned a master's in 1959. She began teaching in New York public schools and eventually at the University of California San Diego. Her artwork focused on African and African American heritage, especially women's roles. She used the Civil Rights Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and African art as inspirations. In the 1970s Ringgold began experimenting with fabric and three-dimensional mediums, creating quilts and mixed media sculptures. Ringgold was a women's rights and civil rights activist. She was a member of Women Artists in Revolution. She founded the Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation and the Coast-to-Coast National Women Artists of Color Projects. She married twice, first to Robert Earl Wallace from 1950 to 1954. Her second marriage was to Burdette Ringgold in 1962. She lived with him in Englewood. She had two daughters, Michele Faith Wallace and Barbara Faith Wallace.

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1930-10-8

Harlem, New York, USA

2024-04-13

“Faith Ringgold.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 July 2024.