Faith Ringgold

1930 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: feminist art

genre: social-artistic project

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: City College of New York

occupation: painter, visual artist, illustrator, textile artist, sculptor, performance artist, quiltmaker, artist

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Candace Award, Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Caldecott Medal, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children, New York Foundation for the Arts, Time 100, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals, Coretta Scott King Award

official website: faithringgold.com

Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930) is an American painter, painting on different materials including fabric, a published author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts. Source: Wikipedia (en)