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Faith Ringgold

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Artist Faith Ringgold on Learning to Represent Black People

Ringgold combines painting and quilt making to create brightly colored and patterned story pictures. She lives in Harlem and teaches half the year at the University of California at San Diego. She's just completed a picture book for children, "Tar Beach," inspired by her story quilt of the same name.

Artist Faith Ringgold in front of her painted self portrait

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