Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930, in Harlem, New York City) is an African-American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. Read full biography of Faith Ringgold →
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of... →
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The... →
I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I... →
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking... →
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African... →
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're... →