Faith Ringgold
1) Tar beach
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Alongside reproductions of key works made between 1967 and 1981, Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power provides an overview of Ringgold's seminal artistic and activist work, and its historical context during these years, including accounts by the artist herself. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ringgold, a dedicated and impassioned civil rights advocate, established her voice as a feminist and within the Black Arts Movement. Her influential work expressed...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents the Christmas story according to Luke plus the words to five popular Christmas carols--"Silent Night," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "O Holy Night," "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," and "Joy to the World," sung on the accompanying CD by the Boys Choir of Harlem.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Faith Ringgold is a critically acclaimed American artist whose unique methods of visual storytelling have documented and advanced art historical, feminist, and civil-rights movements for more than half a century. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, New York, this expansive survey covers work from all periods of her career, including her early civil rights-era figurative paintings, her graphic political protest posters, and her signature...
15) Tar beach
Series
Reading rainbow volume 81
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Host LeVar Burton introduces the book "Tar beach" by Faith Ringgold about a young girl's dream of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Also includes discussions about other activities on the rooftops of New York City, a suspension bridge in the city, and booktalks about "I'm flying" by Alan Wade, "To sleep" by James Sage, and "On Grandma's roof" by Erica Silverman.
Series
Craft in America volume Season 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
[DVD], widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Examines the work and methods of four American textile artists: Faith Ringgold, creator of painted story quilts that tell the African American experience and the history of Harlem; Randall Darwall, maker of quilts and garments; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, who incorporates weaving, sewing, painting, and appliqué to address her indigenous heritage; Terese Agnew, who makes quilts using a method she calls "drawing with thread."
18) Bernice
Author
Language
English
Description
Flamboyant art world pioneer and New York City gallerist, Bernice Steinbaum, has made it her life's crusade to empower female artists and artists of color in a widely marginalized industry.
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