Artist Faith Ringgold, whose seven-decade career encompassed bestselling children's books, incisive activism, and work in an astonishing array of mediums, and culminated with the kind of mass ...

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

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

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

And those artists have their own peerless platform ... 1986," a reproduction of a painted quilt by Faith Ringgold, on its May 6 cover. Ringgold, an Englewood resident, died April 12 at age ...

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

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 ...

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

As activists struggle against America’s crisis of mass incarceration, a new documentary relates the remarkable life of a painting created some five decades ago to give inspiration to imprisoned ...

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 ...