📷 nyphoto.at 🎨 #faithringgold Faith Ringgold 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 # 1, 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 St. Nicholas Park, Harlem, NY “No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts,” [Ringgold] said. “After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.” - Faith Willi Ringgold, artist, born 8 October 1930; died 12 April 2024 After receiving a Creative Artists Public Service program (CAPS) grant to create a public work, Faith Ringgold originally offered a mural to her alma mater, City College. When City College declined the offer, Ringgold decided to collaborate with incarcerated women at the Correctional Institution for Women on Rikers Island, formerly the Women’s House of Detention, on a work featuring women playing professional basketball which ...