The fabric of her life.Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930) is an African-American artist and author. Ringgold was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gwathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. : The David C. Driskell David C. Driskell ( June 7, 1931) is a scholar in the field of African American art as well as an accomplished artist in his own right. Driskell is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A major publication, David C. Series of African American Art African American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community. Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from , Vol. 3 by Lisa E. Farrington, Pomegranate pomegranate (pŏm`grănĭt, pŏm`ə–), handsome deciduous and somewhat thorny large shrub or small tree (Punica granatum March 2004, $35.00 ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-764-92761-2 While Faith Ringgold's name has become synonymous with quilt making, the book Faith Ringgold, the third in The David C. Driskell Series celebrating African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. artists, traces her evolution as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and a master storyteller, blurring the lines between fabric, pictures and words. In his foreword, Driskell writes: "Single handedly she has redefined the art of quilt making, moving it way beyond a level d simple acknowledged craftsmanship ... When one thinks of the finest American quilts, hand painted, appliqued, and sewn, Faith Ringgold automatically comes to mind--no one else is in her league." Lisa E. Farrington's authoritative analysis and 50 full color images re traces the artist's exploration of various forms and mediums. Finally, we reach a full appreciation of how she arrived at her "stark and subversive" style and found quilt-making as a natural outlet for her complex and often radical expressions on race, gender and politics, as well as love and family. "I was trying to find out: What is women's art?" Ringgold once explained. "What would you do as a woman in your art, if you could do anything you wanted to do, and you weren't looking at the male, white mainstream? You were just looking within yourself ... look at what women did when they could be artists without calling themselves artists ... The women who made quilts were the original artists." |
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