ACA Galleries Hosts Faith Ringgold & Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Exhibition

ACA GAlleries will host the Faith Ringgold and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson exhibitions from February 6 through March 20 . Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, February 6 from 2 to 5pm. The artists will be present.

Faith Ringgold is a painter, sculptor, teacher & author of numerous award winning children's books.

Tar Beach, her first children's book, won The Caldecott Award and was made into an animated short for HBO. The original Story Quilt is in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

The Faith Ringgold Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, designed by noted architect David Adjaye, will open in Harlem's historic Sugar Hill in 2012.

American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s will be on view from September 12 through December 23, 2010 at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, NY. A full-color catalogue will be available.

She will receive her 22nd honorary doctorate degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia in May 2010.

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson was born 1940 in Columbus, OH. She creates drawings, cloth paintings, woodcuts, books and sculptures.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the MacArthur "Genius Award" in 2004. She will receive the Any One Can Fly Foundation Award in June 2010.

A major retrospective, Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, organized by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, Tacoma Art Museum and Toledo Museum of Art. A 204-page book published by Abrams accompanied the retrospective.

She completed a monumental commission for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH in 2004 and in 2007 received a commission for the Ohio University Baker Center.

She has contributed illustrations for numerous children's books including Elijah's Angel (Harcourt Brace and Company, 1992), Sophie (Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994), A School for Pompey Walker (Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995), and To Be A Drum (Albert Whitman and Company, 1998)

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