THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Faith Ringgold
October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024
“Florynce Kennedy was the one who inspired me to be a feminist. She was the one because I saw how strong and powerful she was, and I’ve always wanted to be strong and powerful.”
Artist, Activist, Author. Painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher and lecturer. B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art from the City College of New York in 1955 and 1959. Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California in San Diego and received 23 Honorary Doctorates. Honored at VFA event, Salute to Feminists in the Arts, NYC 2003.
Photo. Artist Faith Ringgold sits before her quilt “Tar Beach” in 1993. The artwork also inspired a children’s book of the same name. Credit: Kathy Willens, AP
More About Faith:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Faith Ringgold official website
- Faith Ringgold Challenging the Art World & Demanding Inclusion, interview, July 15, 2011 from the 2013 PBS Documentary “Makers: Women Who Make America”
- Archives
- The Faith Ringgold Collection, Archives and Special Collections at Rutgers
- The Art of Faith Ringgold documentary collection, circa 1986-1987, The New York Public Library
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 476, by Michele Wallace, one of Faith Ringgold’s daughters.