Faith Ringgold 1930-2024
As Free and Independent States, 2009
Serigraph
15 x 22
17 of 35
© Faith Ringgold. Licensed by the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Easton, PA.
Print divided into two sections, one depicting Thomas Jefferson, and the other Martin Luther King Jr. in prison.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 18042Exhibitions
"Perspective on the Past: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Barbara Crawford Gallery, Chestnut Hill Academy. Dates: Jan 5, 2025 - Mar 8, 2024"Healing Through the Preservation of our Histories and Our Selves", University of Mary Washington Galleries. Dates: Jan 27, 2022 - Mar 24, 2022
"Figures & Projections: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Kutztown University. Dates: Oct 28, 2021 - Dec 12, 2021
"Freedom and Fragility II", The Amistad Center for Art and Culture. Dates: Mar 23, 2020 - Feb 2, 2021
"Ain't I America: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Hampton University Museum and Archives. Dates: Jan 25, 2019 - May 11, 2019
"Making History Visible: Of American Myths and National Heroes", Princeton University Art Museum. Dates: Sep 26, 2017 - Jan 17, 2018