Faith Ringgold:
Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow
December 15, 2007 – March 23, 2008
This exhibition highlights the paintings, drawings, prints, story quilts, and soft sculpture of internationally known African-American artist, writer and educator Faith Ringgold. In the 1980s Ringgold began making story quilts, an art form that combines storytelling and quilt making with genre painting. Through her brightly colored imagery and mixed media, she examines a broad range of social and political issues. By the 1990s she had become one of the foremost progressive American artists of the twentieth century and a successful author. Ringgold has written and illustrated nine children’s books, including “Tar Beach” that has won more than 30 awards, including the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award. This exhibit, toured by ACA Galleries in NYC, consists of 40 mixed-media works spanning four decades of Ringgold’s career, 1964-2004
Sponsors: OfficeMax Boise Community Fund And Friends of Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold Story Quilts and Children’s Books Program is supported in part by a grant from the Sara Maas Fund in the Idaho Communicty Foundation, and co-sponsors: Boise State University Department of Literacy, Boise State University Visual Arts Department, Lee Pesky Learning Center, and Idaho Black History Museum.