![]() ![]() Born in 1930, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance, she strove to join the ranks of the outsized talents surrounding her: Sonny (“Saxophone Colossus”) Rollins, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Romare Beardon, Duke Ellington and Jacob Lawrence to name just a few. The title of the piece, now on display in Faith Ringgold: An American Artist at the Crocker Art Museum, comes from fantasies the artist entertained as a child on the roof of her family home in the affluent Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem. ![]() ![]() “I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above George Washington Bridge,” writes painter/activist Faith Ringgold in the opening stanza of her signature “story quilt,” Tar Beach # 2 (1990). Tar Beach #2, 1990, silkscreen on silk, 60 x 59 inches ![]()
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