Faith Ringgold

thumb|Ringgold in 2017 Faith Ringgold (October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was a painter, writer, mixed media sculptor and performance artist. Quotes [I realized] I can’t tell your story, I can only tell mine. I can’t be you, I can only be me. On her artistic development in “The Storyteller: At 85, Her Star Still Rising, Faith Ringgold Looks Back on Her Life in Art, Activism, and Education” in ArtNews (March 1, 2006) Political people don’t seem to understand art…It’s not what they’re trying to do. And if it is, let them do that. Don’t tell me what to do, because I have to look at this many years from now and be happy that I did it, not unhappy. And I would be unhappy with the ‘Kill whitey.’ It’s not my thing. On not creating politically incendiary artwork for the Black Panthers in “The Storyteller: At 85, Her Star Still Rising, Faith Ringgold Looks Back on Her Life in Art, Activism, and Education” in ArtNews (March 1, 2006) I was encouraged to look around me and to paint what I saw. I painted my story, and it had a lot of angles to it. I was trying to explain how I saw life as a black person living in America, and I put things together that were not acceptable. A lot of people did not want these kind of paintings representing America in any sense, but I wanted to tell my story and what I saw… On the Civil Rights Movement puncturing the image of the American Dream in in The Art Newspaper (June 5, 2019) …Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which also put designs together to make them beautiful… On the origins of quilting in slavery in in The Art Newspaper (June 5, 2019) I think they were a little bit too bold in that I was showing the relationship between black and white people, the struggle for independence and freedom that black people were pursuing during the civil rights era. It was just a little bit too damn much going on. The struggle was one thing when you talk about it, another thing when you picture it. I wanted people also to look at that work and see themselves. Whichever part you were playing, this is what's going on… On her painting subjects in “The Surprising Vision of Artist Faith Ringgold” in NPR (December 26, 2013) External links Category:1930 births Category:2024 deaths Category:20th-century African-American women Category:Artists from New York City Category:Sculptors from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:21st-century African-American women