Artist field note

Faith Ringgold

History, story and fabric speak together.

Appears inThe Overlooked
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
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Tar Beach

1988

A girl flies above Harlem. The quilt turns childhood imagination into a claim on freedom.

The five in one idea

Ringgold made storytelling, politics and textile tradition inseparable from modern art.