Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida will display art from Spelman College—a historically black liberal arts college for women located in Atlanta, Georgia. Uncovering the subversive ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...

In 1971, underestimated artist Faith Ringgold made a monumental painting for the women incarcerated at Rikers Island jail called “For the Women’s House.” Fifty years later, artist Mary ...