Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold (October 8, 1930 — April 12, 2024) ) was a painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist who lived and worked in Englewood, New Jersey. Ms. Ringgold was professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego where she taught art from 1987 until 2002. Professor Ringgold was the recipient of more than 75 awards including 22 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees. She has received fellowships and grants that include the National Endowment For the Arts Award for sculpture (1978) and for painting (1989)

Ringgold’s first published book, the award-winning, Tar Beach, “a book or children of all ages,” was published by Random House in 1991 and has won more than 30 awards including, a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for the best illustrated children’s book of 1991. The book, Tar Beach, is based on the story quilt Tar Beach, from Ringgold’s The Woman on a Bridge Series of 1988 and is in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.