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Faith Ringgold Receives 2015 Recognition from American Association of University Women

The AAUW Alumnae Recognition Award honors a past recipient of an AAUW fellowship or grant who has attained outstanding success and national or international distinction as a result of her AAUW award in her chosen profession or life’s work. Through this award, AAUW recognizes the accomplishments of an alumna who empowers women and girls and advances the goals of AAUW. The award was first given in 2013 and is presented biennially at the AAUW National Convention.




 
Faith Ringgold, internationally renowned artist, educator, and social activist, has used her art to draw attention to racism and gender inequality. Born in Harlem, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts from the City College of New York. Today, Ringgold is professor emerita in the visual arts department at the University of California, San Diego.

Ringgold was a pioneer in the women’s arts movement of the 1960s, organizing protests against major museums for excluding works by black and women artists. She helped found the Women Students and Artists for Black Liberation group to ensure that African American art exhibitions equally represented women and men.

Ringgold is best known for her story quilts — painted narratives on fabric. Her work has been exhibited all over the world and in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. She received the 1976–77 AAUW Creative Arts Award, given in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts to practicing artists with exceptional talent. She was also featured in the PBS series Makers: Women Who Make America and in a Time magazine photo essay about contemporary artist legends.

Ringgold has written or illustrated 16 children’s books, including the award-winning Tar Beach. She is the founder of the nonprofit 501(c)3,  Anyone Can Fly Foundation, Inc, which aims to bring more African American Master artists and their art traditions into the established art canon.

Shout out to Xenobia Bailey

10th Annual Art Exhibition, Sale, and Silent Auction - October 22, 2008

Thanks, Xenobia for the beautiful tribute on your blog to my mom, your mentor, Faith Ringgold. And the recognition of Faith Ringgold's Anyone Can Fly Foundation.

Faith Ringgold, Trailblazer

Declaration of Freedom and Independence (slideshow under construction)

"Quilts as Art & Story: The Works of Faith Ringgold" Aquinas College, 10/12/2005, Grand Rapids, MI