Members met at the New Museum after our Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony for a private tour of Faith Ringgold: American People led by Curatorial Assistant, Madeline Weisburg.

Bringing together over fifty years of work, the exhibition provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s vision. Artist, author, educator, and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation. Her career links the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. For sixty years, Ringgold has drawn from both personal autobiography and collective histories to both document her life as an artist and mother and to amplify the struggles for social justice and equity. From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold has produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.