Faith Ringgold

BIOGRAPHY
Faith Ringgold is an author and artist who was born in Harlem,
New York. She grew up in Harlem during the Great Depression
and was influenced by the people, poetry, poverty, and music she
experienced during this time. She started painting in the 1950s and
eventually started experimenting with sculptures. Faith Ringgold is
best known for her beautiful narrative quilts.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tar Beach, New York: Crown Publishing Company, 1991. ISBN 978-0-517-88544-4
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky, New York: Random House, Crown
Publishers. ISBN 978-0-517-88543-7
Dinner at Aunt Connies House, New York: Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 978-0-
590-13713-3
We Flew Over The Bridge: Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and
Company, 1995; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8223-3564-1
Talking To Faith Ringgold, by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman and Nancy Roucher, New
York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1996. ISBN 978-0-517-70914-6
7 Passages To A Flight, an artists book, San Diego, California: Brighton Press.
Bonjour Lonnie, New York: Hyperion Books for Young Readers, 1996. ISBN 978-0-
7868-0076-6
My Dream of Martin Luther King, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers.
ISBN 978-0-517-88577-2
The Invisible Princess, New York: Crown Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0-440-
41735-4
If a Bus Could Talk, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. ISBN 978-0-689-85676-1
Counting to Tar Beach, New York: Crown, 2000. ISBN 978-0-517-80022-5
Cassie's Colorful Day, New York: Crown, 2000. ISBN 978-0-517-80021-8
Cassie's Word Quilt, New York: Crown, 2001. ISBN 978-0-553-11233-7
O Holy Night: Christmas with the Boys Choir of Harlem, New York: Harper Collins,
2004. ISBN 978-1-4223-5512-1
The Three Witches by Zora Neale Hurston illustrated by Faith Ringgold, New York:
Harper Collins, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-000649-5
Bronzeville Boys and Girls (poetry) by Gwendolyn Brooks illustrated by Faith Ringgold,
New York: Harper Collins, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-029505-9
 What Will You Do for Peace? Impact of 9/11 on New York City Youth, InterRelations
Collaborative, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0-9761753-0-8

GENRES
Memoir Realistic Fiction Fantasy Autobiography Historical Fiction Poetry

INTENDED AUDIENCE
Children and adults of all races, ethnicities, religions, and any other aspect of diversity. Her
stories are for everyone.
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and
sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard
or easy
Fatih Ringgold

AWARD WINNER

2011: City College of New Yorks First Annual Cultural Arts Award
2009: Met with President Barack Obama for Peace Corps award
2006: Harlem Arts alliance Golden Legacy Visual Arts Award
2006: James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art Honoree
2005: Amistad Center for Art & Culture Presidents Award
2005: Moore College of Art and Designs Visionary Women Award
2004: National Visionary Leadership Project
2002: California Art Educators Association Living Artists Award
2001: Dedicators Award 10/27/01
2001: Art Institute of Chicago, May 19, 2001
2000: Mary Grove College, Honorary Art Degree
1994: Honoree for the NYC Conference of the Women's Caucus for Art.
1999: NAACP Image Award
1999: Art alliance (Scholastic) April 13, 1999
1999: CITYarts "Making a Difference Through the Arts" Award, June 21, 1999
1999: Bank Street, May 27, 1999
1995: Townsend Harris Medal City College of New York Alumni Association
1990: La Napoule Foundation Award for painting (in France)
1989: National Endowment For the Arts Award for painting
1988: New York Foundation For the Arts Award for painting
1987: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for painting
1984: Candace Award, Arts and Letters, National Coalition of 100 Black Women
1978: National Endowment For the Arts Award for sculpture
1976: American Association of University Women for travel to Africa
1971: Creative Artists Public Service Award for painting
I chose Faith Ringgold as my author and illustrator to spotlight because she is an incredible artist
and activist for diverse communities. She is an illustrator, painter, sculpture, and has even tried
visual arts performing. She is a women of many talents who uses her talents to show others her
story and the story of people her readers may not have read before. She does a really good job of
not portraying a single story but uses her art to speak about real issues going on in the world.