(born 1930) Painter, quilt-maker and storyteller. Ringgold has been particular notable in transforming memories of and observations on the African American family, social life and political economic context into vivid painted and stitched quilts intertwining multiple, complex stories. These take black folk traditions into museums and, at the same time, open them to new audiences as in her classic children’s story Tar Beach (1991) (part of her “Woman on the Bridge” series in New York’s Guggenheim collection).

Raised in Harlem, Ringgold has become a global teacher and artist.