I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they’re looking at one.
About Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgoldwas an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York City, and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the City College of New York.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
African American painter and sculptor
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they’re looking at one.
African American painter and sculptor
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it’s a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I’m gonna do it whether it’s hard or easy.
African American painter and sculptor
I just feel like I’m the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it’s great, I love it.
African American painter and sculptor
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I’m thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it’s our front, it’s our face.
African American painter and sculptor
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it ‘The Men’ and call it ‘The Women’ and show different faces of these two people.
African American painter and sculptor
I’m not so presumptuous to feel that they’re gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they’ll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that’s why I started writing stories on my work.
African American painter and sculptor