NVN Sunday: FAITH RINGGOLD WITH MY DAUGHTER, AGE 9
by Alice Sims-Gunzenhauser
in memoriam: Faith Ringgold, October 8, 1930 - April 13, 2024
Part I, #4: Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles by Faith Ringgold
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We sit among the adult audience, you with your pigtail I with my arm around you. Her new French Collection, placing African American figures in white European bastions of art within her glorious quilts disconcerting one or two of the art historians present. When it is time for questions she calls on you first of all from among the many raised hands. You ask why she decided to be an artist. Faith Ringgold, world famous, hears the importance of this to you locks onto your gaze and says, Because when I make art, then I'm free.
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Alice Sims-Gunzenhauser is a visual artist and poet who lives in New Jersey. Her art has been included in regional and national exhibits. Her poetry has been published in the Kelsey Review.