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Faith Ringgold was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. She was greatly influenced by the fabric she worked with at home with her mother who was a fashion designer and has used fabric in many of her artworks. She is especially well-known for her painted story quilts which blur the line between "high art" and "craft" by combining painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,The Museum of Modern Art, and other museums that are mostly in New York City.

In addition, Ringgold has written and illustrated seventeen children's books including Tar Beach and has exhibited in major museums all over the world. She is professor emeritus University of California, San Diego visual art department.

Ringgold was also the plaintiff in a significant copyright case, Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television. ^[1] Black Entertainment Television (BET) had aired several episodes of the television series "Roc" in which a Ringgold poster was shown on nine different occasions for a total of 26.75 seconds. Ringgold sued for copyright infringement. The court found BET liable for copyright infringement, rejecting the de minimis defense raised by BET, which had argued that the use of Ringgold's copyrighted work was so minimal that it did not constitute an infringement.

Publications by Faith Ringgold

Tar Beach, Crown Publishing Company, New York, New York.
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky, Random House, Crown Publishers, New York, New York.
Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House, Hyperion Books For Children, New York, New York.
We Flew Over The Bridge: Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts 1995, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2005
Talking To Faith Ringgold, by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman and Nancy Roucher, Crown Books for Young Readers, New York, New York.*7 Passages To A Flight, an artist’s book, Brighton Press, San Diego, California.
Bonjour Lonnie, Hyperion Books for Young Readers, New York, NY.
My Dream of Martin Luther King, Crown Books for Young Readers, New York, NY.
The Invisible Princess, Crown Books for Young Readers, promotional poster, New York, NY, September.
If a Bus Could Talk, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.
Ringgold, Faith. Counting to Tar Beach, Crown, New York, NY, 2000
Ringgold, Faith. Cassie's Colorful Day, Crown, New York, NY, 2000
Ringgold, Faith. Cassie's Word Quilt, Crown, New York, NY, 2001
Ringgold, Faith. O Holy Night, Harper Collins, New York, 2004
The Three Witches by Zora Neale Hurston illustrated by Faith Ringgold, Harper Collins, 2005
Bronsville Boys & Girls (poetry) Gwedolyn Brooks illustrated by Faith Ringgold Harper Collins, NYC, 2007

References

^ Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, 126 F.3d 70 (2nd Cir. 1997).

[1] Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, 126 F.3d 70 (2nd Cir. 1997).

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	][http://www.faithringgold.com Faith Ringgold] was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the [[City College of New York]], where she studied with Robert Gathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. She was greatly influenced by the [[fabric]] she worked with at home with her mother who was a [[fashion designer]] and has used fabric in many of her artworks. She is especially well-known for her painted story [[quilts]] which blur the line between "high art" and "craft" by combining [[painting]], quilted [[fabric]], and [[storytelling]]. She is in the permanent collection of many [[museums]] including, the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]],[[The Museum of Modern Art]], and other museums that are mostly in New York City.		[http://www.faithringgold.com Faith Ringgold] was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the [[City College of New York]], where she studied with Robert Gathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. She was greatly influenced by the [[fabric]] she worked with at home with her mother who was a [[fashion designer]] and has used fabric in many of her artworks. She is especially well-known for her painted story [[quilts]] which blur the line between "high art" and "craft" by combining [[painting]], quilted [[fabric]], and [[storytelling]]. She is in the permanent collection of many [[museums]] including, the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]],[[The Museum of Modern Art]], and other museums that are mostly in New York City.

	In addition, Ringgold has written and illustrated seventeen children's books including ''Tar Beach'' and has exhibited in major museums all over the world. She is professor emeritus [[University of California, San Diego]] [[visual art]] department.		In addition, Ringgold has written and illustrated seventeen children's books including ''Tar Beach'' and has exhibited in major museums all over the world. She is professor emeritus [[University of California, San Diego]] [[visual art]] department.