Interview: Ringgold, Faith, 2008
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Ringgold, Faith, 2008
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Ringgold, Faith
- Birth Year
- 1930
- Birth Place
- New York City, New York
- Interviewer
- Zahavi, Karin
- Location Created
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 2008
- Abstract
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Faith Ringgold began her artistic career more than fifty years ago as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts – art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has written and illustrated eleven children’s books. She has received more than seventy-five awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and seventeen honorary doctorates, one of which is from her alma mater The City College of New York.
In this interview Ringgold begins with her childhood in Harlem, New York City, during the 1930s and the influences that impacted her life. She then addresses her experience during the Harlem Renaissance and struggles as a Black female artist, then moves on to her social activism within her art and the development of her mature style. - Source Project Description
- This interview was conducted by IWL Leadership Scholars as part of an ongoing intergenerational interview program at the Institute for Women's Leadership. Since the inception of the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program in the fall of 1999, students have conducted annual interviews with outstanding women leaders. Select transcripts from the collection are accessible on the IWL website.
- Collection
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- Repository
- Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- For permission to use interview excerpts from the Women's Leadership Interview Archive, contact the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University–New Brunswick at info@iwl.rutgers.edu.
- Related Resource
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- IWL Leadership Scholars
- Faith Ringgold (Wikipedia)
- Faith Ringgold's Website
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Interview: Ringgold, Faith, 2008
- Subject
- Institute for Women's Leadership (Rutgers)
- Writers and Poets
- Artists
- Women's Leadership
- Civil Rights Movement
- Feminism
- Identifier
- IWL-Ringgold
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
 Film: Taking Flight: An Interview with Faith Ringgold |
Interview |
| Interview: Ringgold, Faith, 2008 |
Interview |
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