Faith Ringgold

Ringgold is an African-American artist, writer, and performance artist. She has also received over fifty major awards from, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, La Napoule Foundation in France, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim. Her public commissions include murals in New York City and Los Angeles. Ringgold is acclaimed, too, for painted quilts, which draw on African-American folk art. A prolific author of children's books since 1991, she won over thirty awards for the first of them, Tar Beach (1991), a recipient of the Caldecott Honor and the subject of an animated film version by HBO.