Faith Ringgold

By miatomasino

  • Faith Ringgold was born in New York City

  • Ringgold enrolled in New York's City College as an Art Education major

  • Ringgold earned her bachelor's in Fine Arts and Education

  • Started teaching art in New York public schools

  • Began the American People painting series which portrays the civil rights movement from a female perspective

  • First solo show at the Spectrum Gallery

  • Arrested for desecrating the American flag as a part of The People’s Flag Show

  • Began lecturing at feminist art conferences

  • Collaborated with her daughter to found the advocacy group Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation

  • Quit teaching in New York Public Schools

  • She was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

  • Began working on her Story Quilts series

  • Began teaching at the University of California

  • Received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

  • Ringgold wrote Tar Beach

  • Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award

  • Recieved the Caldecott Medal

  • Received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators

  • Received the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards for Picture Book

  • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's

  • Serpentine Gallery in London & BBC Documentary

    Serpentine Gallery in London organized a traveling survey of Faith Ringgold's work. BBC produced a full-length documentary, Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

  • “Faith Ringgold: American People.” exhibit at the New Museum, NYC

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