Faith Ringgold, who died in 2024, used narrative quilts among other mediums to tell stories that emerged out of shared dreams and communal labour. She was a fierce advocate for inclusion and belonging in the art world, and beyond.
This narrative quilt by Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach, is both an exquisite piece on its own and the inspiration for Ringgold's children's book of the same name.
Faith Ringgold's The Dinner Quilt is a famous work of narrative quilting, in which the power of community history is seated in patches around a communal feast.
Faith Ringgold's narrative quilts had layers upon layers, blending art forms and content, as in this piece bringing a range of Black women together to weave a quilt of sunflowers in a field of sunflowers - preserving their living quality without plucking them for a bouquet.
#ArtBreak, anyone?
Faith Ringgold was a powerhouse of activism through art.
What is a story? Where does it live? Is it something we create by playing within the lines, or by making the world take notice of how the textures of *our* existence move to a cadence of their own within the common weave?
