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Faith Ringgold was born in New York City
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Ringgold enrolled in New York's City College as an Art Education major
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Ringgold earned her bachelor's in Fine Arts and Education
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Started teaching art in New York public schools
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Began the American People painting series which portrays the civil rights movement from a female perspective
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First solo show at the Spectrum Gallery
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Arrested for desecrating the American flag as a part of The People’s Flag Show
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Began lecturing at feminist art conferences
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Collaborated with her daughter to found the advocacy group Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation
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Quit teaching in New York Public Schools
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She was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
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Began working on her Story Quilts series
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Began teaching at the University of California
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Received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
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Ringgold wrote Tar Beach
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Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award
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Recieved the Caldecott Medal
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Received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators
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Received the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards for Picture Book
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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's
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Serpentine Gallery in London & BBC Documentary
Serpentine Gallery in London organized a traveling survey of Faith Ringgold's work. BBC produced a full-length documentary, Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is -
“Faith Ringgold: American People.” exhibit at the New Museum, NYC