No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. 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 Ringgold's career spanned seven decades, marked by breathtaking forays into new modes of making, but she only began to receive the recognition she deserved in the 2010s, highlighting the challenges faced by Black women artists.
#faith-ringgold #artistic-exploration #black-life-documentation #women-artists #racial-and-gender-issues
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