She was a voice in art and activism

Faith Ringgold told stories through her quilts, paintings, sculptures, and masks.

Artist and children’s book author Faith Ringgold recently died at age 93. She was best known for using a variety of art forms to portray Black American lives. Early life Faith Willi Jones was born in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood on October 8, 1930. Her mother, Willi Posey, was a seamstress and fashion designer, and her father drove a sanitation truck. Faith spent significant time in bed due to her asthma and passed the time drawing and painting. After high school, she went to the City College of New York, where women were not allowed to major in art. She studied it anyway by enrolling in the college’s school of education. She graduated in 1955, returned to earn a master’s degree in art in 1959, and taught art in…

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