Faith Ringgold Displays Quilts at ACA Galleries, 9/9-10/9

Faith Ringgold's new series of painted storyquilts Coming to Jones Road Part II will be on view at ACA Galleries from September 9 through October 9, 2010.  Coming to Jones Road Part One depicted distant silhouetted images of slaves moving through beautiful landscapes to freedom on the Underground Railroad. In Part 2 we meet Precious, Barn Door and Baby Freedom at Aunt Emmy's Safe House on Jones Road, hear their stories, and celebrate freedom.
 
RELATED EVENTS:

The Faith Ringgold Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling will begin construction in Harlem in late 2010. (For more information visit  www.broadwayhousing.com)

The traveling retrospective American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s will be on view at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, NY from September 11 through December 23, 2010. A full-color catalogue will be available.

Faith Ringgold received a commission to design 52 mosaics for the Civic Center Subway Station in Los Angeles, CA.  (Installation date in late 2010 to be announced).  Faith's visit to Mosaika, the mosaic fabrication company in Montreal.

 Faith Ringgold, born 1930 in Harlem, is a painter, sculptor and 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 storyquilt is in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NY.  She is the recipient of more than 80 awards and honors including the Simon Guggenheim Award for Painting and two National Endowment for the Arts Awards in sculpture and painting.   She has been presented with 22 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees.