Faith Ringgold<\/h3>
Faith Ringgold was born the youngest of three children on October 8, 1930, in Harlem Hospital, New York City.[2]:24 Her parents, Andrew Louis Jones and Willi Posey Jones, descended from working-class families displaced by the Great Migration (African American). As her mother was a fashion designer and father an avid storyteller, Ringgold was raised in an environment that encouraged her creativity. After the Harlem Renaissance, Ringgold\u2019s childhood home in Harlem was left with a vibrant and thriving arts scene. Figures such as Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes lived just around the corner from her home.[2]:27 Her childhood friend, Sonny Rollins, who would later become a prominent jazz musician, often visited her family and practiced his saxophone at their parties.[2]:28 Because of her chronic asthma, Ringold explored visual art as a major pastime through the support of her mother, often experimenting with crayons as a young girl.[2]:24 In a statement she later made about her youth, she said, \u201cI grew up in Harlem during the Great Depression. This did not mean I was poor and oppressed. We were protected from oppression and surrounded by a loving family.\u201d.[2]:24 With all of these influences combined, Ringgold\u2019s future artwork was greatly affected by the people, poetry, and music she experienced in her childhood, as well as the racism, sexism, and segregation she dealt with in her everyday life.[2]:9<\/p>
In 1950, due to pressure from her family, Ringgold enrolled at the City College of New York to major in art, but was forced to major in art education instead because City College only allowed women to be enrolled in certain majors.[3][4]:134 The same year, she also married a jazz pianist named Robert Earl Wallace and had two children (Michele Faith Wallace[5] and Barbara Faith Wallace). However, because of his heroin addiction, they separated four years later.[6]:54 In the meantime, she studied with artists Robert Gwathmey, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and was introduced to printmaker Robert Blackburn, with whom she would collaborate on a series of prints 30 years later.[2]:29<\/p>
In 1955, Ringgold received her bachelor's degree from City College and soon afterward taught in the New York City public school system.[7] In 1959, she received her master's degree from City College and left with her mother and daughters on her first trip to Europe.[7] While travelling abroad in Paris, Florence, and Rome, Ringgold visited many museums, including the Louvre. This museum in particular inspired her future series of quilt paintings known as the French Collection. This trip was abruptly cut short, however, due to the untimely death of her brother in 1961. Faith Ringgold, her mother, and her daughters all returned to the US for his funeral.[6]:141 She married Burdette Ringgold on May 19, 1962.[7]<\/p><\/div>\n
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