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    Faith Ringgold: Artist, Storyteller, Activist

    Illustration for Faith Ringgold: Artist, Storyteller, Activist

    April 26 – December 31, 2026

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    About This Event

    Live event at Sugar Hill Children's Museum

    About Faith Ringgold: Artist, Storyteller, Activist

    At Sugar Hill Children’s Museum in Harlem, “Faith Ringgold: Artist, Storyteller, Activist” situates Ringgold’s work inside the city that shaped her, from neighborhood life to national movements. The exhibition frames her practice across painting, quilts, and narrative, showing how images and words can carry history in forms children can read and adults can argue with. Featured participants include Faith Ringgold and Zelinette Estrada, tying the presentation to live, local voices. One clear takeaway is how Ringgold treats storytelling as a civic tool, not a side project.

    About the Artist

    Faith Ringgold

    Faith Ringgold

    Faith Ringgold was a New York–based artist and writer whose work moved between painting, mixed-media sculpture, performance, and children’s literature, shaped by an activist lens. She is widely associated with story-driven quilts that combine image, text, and spoken narrative into a single structure.