Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold
Ringgold in her studio in 1999
Born	Faith Willi Jones (1930-10-08)October 8, 1930 New York City, U.S.
Died	April 13, 2024(2024-04-13) (aged 93) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	City College of New York
Known for	Painting Textile arts Children's Books
Notable work	The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967) The American People Series #20: Die (1967) Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? (1983) Tar Beach (1991) The French Collection (1991–1997) The American Collection (1997)
Movement	Feminist art movement, Civil rights
Spouses	Robert Earl Wallace ​ ​ (m. 1950; div. 1954)​ Burdette Ringgold ​ ​ (m. 1962; died 2020)​
Children	2, including Michele Wallace
Awards	2009 Peace Corps Award

Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.^[1][2][3][4]

Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York City, and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the City College of New York. She was an art teacher in the New York City public school system. As a multimedia artist, her works explored themes of family, race, class, and gender. Her series of story quilts, designed from the 1980s on, captured the experiences of Black Americans and became her signature art form. During her career, she promoted the work of Black artists and rallied against their marginalization by the art museums. She wrote and illustrated over a dozen children's books. Ringgold's art has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the permanent collections of The Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.