Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed-media sculptor and performance artist lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, where she taught art from 1987 to 2002. Ringgold is the recipient of more than 75 awards including 22 honorary doctorates of fine arts. She has received several fellowships and grants from national and international organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts Award for sculpture and for painting; The La Napoule Foundation Award for painting in France; and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for painting.
Ringgold's art has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S. and around the world, and her art is part of many private and public art collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and many more. She has also produced many public art commissions throughout the U.S., focusing on large-scale mosaic murals.
Her award-winning book, "Tar Beach," was published by Random House in 1991 and has won more than 30 awards including a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for the best illustrated children's book of 1991. Ringgold has completed 16 children's books focusing on civil rights figures. "The Story of Ms. Rosa Parks” won the NAACP's Image Award in 2000.