![]() ![]() ![]() Ringgold’s quilts, with their hand-painted tableaus, constituted another act of circumvention. For example, after being rejected from Spiral-a Black artists’ collective peopled by the likes of Richard Mayhew, Romare Bearden, and a single woman, Emma Amos-in 1964, she took up with the poet and playwright Amiri Baraka’s Black Arts Repertory Theatre, exhibiting her work in a caravan that toured through Harlem. “The amazing thing about Faith and her work was that whenever nobody noticed her, or whenever she didn’t find the support, she built the support,” Gioni says. ![]() Central to “American People” are Ringgold’s wide-ranging artistic innovations, mostly inspired by the difficulties she faced navigating the art scene in 1960s New York. ![]()
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