![]() ![]() Best known for her story quilts, Ringgold has achieved enormous success working predominantly in a medium considered by the traditional art community to be “decorative,” a category inferior to that of “high art.” Ringgold’s work conveys powerful political messages and “chronicles her search for human dignity and empowerment, and her tireless activism against racial and gender discrimination….” Farrington writes in Faith Ringgold: “the first thing she had to do was believe that she, an African American woman, could penetrate the art scene without sacrificing one iota of her blackness, her womanhood, or her humanity.” In her career, Ringgold has preserved her identity creating work that speaks to her experience as a black woman working in a field dominated by white males. Immediately after graduation she began teaching art in the New York City public schools and continued to teach through 1973. She received her BA in Fine Art and Education from the City College of New York in 1955 and then earned an MA from the same institution in 1959. ![]() ![]() Ringgold was born in Harlem on October 8, 1930. ![]() As an African American woman and artist launching her career in the 1960s, Faith Ringgold fought many battles against racial, gender, and artistic discrimination. ![]()
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