Faith Ringgold 1930-2024

And Women?, 2009

Serigraph

15 x 22 in.
38.1 x 55.9 cm

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Print divided into two sections, one depicting Abigail Adams, and the other Sojourner Truth, both in grey tones and overlaid with excerpts of their respective writings on women’s rights.The six serigraph series in a portfolio along with didactic text comprises a historic representation of the Declaration of Independence through the perspective of an African American woman. Ringgold collaborated with master printer and professor Curlee Raven Holton, who is also the director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Provenance

Raven Studio- Curlee Raven Holton 1390 Morganhill Rd. Williams Township, PA 18042

Exhibitions

"Freedom and Fragility II", The Amistad Center for Art and Culture. Dates: 23/03/2020-08/02/2021. Location: Hartford, CT. Link: http://www.amistadcenter.org/events/freedom-fragility-3/ "Figures & Projections", Kutztown University. Dates: 28/10/2021-12/12/2021. Location: Kutztown University. "Ain't I America: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Hampton University. Dates: 25/01/2019-11/05/2019. Location: Hampton University Museum and Archives, 14 Frissell Avenue Hampton, VA 23668. Link: https://home.hamptonu.edu/msm/2019/05/11/collection-four/ "Healing Through the Preservation of our Histories and Our Selves", University of Mary Washington. Dates: 27/01/2022-24/03/2022. Location: University of Mary Washington Galleries. "Perspective on the Past: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Barbara Crawford Gallery, Chestnut Hill Academy. Dates: 05/01/2024-08/03/2024. Location: Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, PA

Publications

1. Multiple Contributors, (2021), "FIGURES AND PROJECTIONS: Selected Works from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Kutztown University - Figures and Projections, Catalog, Kutztown University, Miller Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Dan Haxall and Karen Stanford, https://issuu.com/millerku/docs/pff_at_ku 2. Multiple Contributors, (2021), "Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Our Selves", University of Mary Washington - Healing, Catalog, UMW Galleries, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, John McMillan and Ashe Laughlin

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