Stitching Protest and Flight in Harlem: Faith Ringgold’s Art Finds a New Home
Faith Ringgold’s vibrant story quilts, once stitched in a Harlem apartment, now prepare to take center stage at Jack Shainman Gallery. Her textile masterpieces, woven with the struggles and dreams of the Civil Rights era, broke boundaries by blending personal memory with collective history.
Ringgold’s artistry was never confined to one medium—her practice spanned painting, sculpture, and printmaking, but it was her quilts that truly soared. Works like Tar Beach 2 transformed childhood recollections into fantastical journeys above New York’s skyline, later inspiring beloved children’s books.
Beyond her own creations, Ringgold championed other artists of the African diaspora through the Anyone Can Fly Foundation, ensuring that more voices could rise. As her legacy moves to a new gallery, her art continues to speak to today’s urgent conversations about race, memory, and belonging—each stitch a thread connecting past and present.
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