Binder sits in magazine holder on wall and contains photocopied images that were numbered by the artist, placed in plastic sleeves, and are arranged chronologically. Associated archival material is located in a Hollinger box on a shelf below the binder. Folders within the Hollinger box are arranged chronologically and the contents within the folders are also arranged chronologically.
Description
This gallery consists of one binder created by Faith Ringgold that features 129 images of her quilts from 1980-2010. Ringgold was inspired by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, to make quilts. Ringgold and her mother collaborated on one quilt "Echoes of Harlem" which was featured in the exhibition "The Artist & the Quilt." Highlights in this series include quilt drafts, workbooks, texts of story quilts, condition reports, research, and pictures of Ringgold's quilts "Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima?," "Flag Story Quilt," "The Street Story and Quilt," "Change," "The Dinner Quilt," "Tar Beach," "Change 3," "Church Picnic Story Quilt," "The French Collection," "What Will You Do For Peace?," and "Cotton Fields, Sunflowers, Blackbirds and Quilting Bees." Researchers interested in seeing early drafts of "Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima?" should examine the archival folder associated with this work. Researchers may also find the archival material for "The Dinner Quilt" interesting. In it the researcher will find images and background research on some of the figures featured on the quilt such as Dorothy Dandridge, Bessie Smith, Mary McLeod Bethune, Augusta Savage, Zora Neale Hurston, Marian Anderson, and Madame CJ Walker who were also used in her book "Dinner At Aunt Connie's House." The series also contains an early draft of the text of the story quilt "Tar Beach."
