Faith Ringgold's Life And Life Of Faith Ringgold

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Faith Willi Jones known as Faith Ringgold is an artist that was born on October 8, 1930, and is currently the age of eighty-seven years old. She was born in Harlem, New York City where she was the youngest of three children from her parents, Louis Jones and Willie Posey Jones. Faith was revealed to creativity at an early age due to her mother being a fashion designer and her father as an avid storyteller. During her childhood, Faith had figures such as Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Sonny Rollins, who all lived nearby her. Ringgold investigated visual art as a prime leisure activity with the help of her mom, frequently exploring with crayons as a young child. In a statement, she made about her youth, she stated, “I grew up in Harlem during …show more content…

Despite the significant influence that lead to her future career in art, Ringgold reported that she was also impacted by the racism, sexism, and segregation that she had to experience in her everyday life. Positivity and hardships both helped shaped Ringgold’s successful art career in due time.
After receiving her bachelor’s and master’s degree from City College in 1955 and 1959, Ringgold started her career in art. All writings of James Baldwin, African Art, Impressionism, Amiri Baraka, and Cubism-inspired Ringgold to initiate the work she created during the 1960s. Ringgold started her early work with shapes and flat figures. She had trouble selling her pieces of art to collectors and galleries because of the opposition they had towards the specific images. Ringgold images were based on …show more content…

All through the 1970s, she investigated this medium in a progression of politically propelled sculptures. She later utilized these works in her exhibitions, which were arranged all through the United States and abroad. A portion of the three-dimensional figures like dolls and veils were coordinated efforts with her mom. Out of all these original strings, Ringgold started making her first story

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