The Art of Faith Ringgold documentary collection

id
11685
origination
Ringgold, Faith
date statement
circa 1986-1987
key date
1986
identifier (local_mss)
23983
org unit
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
call number
Sc MIRS Ringgold
b-number
b22863473
total components
12
total series
2
max depth
2
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2024-05-31 18:47:35 UTC
updated
2026-05-01 16:27:03 UTC
status note
(missing)
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unitid
{"value"=>"23983", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22863473", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Ringgold", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"circa 1986-1987", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1986/1987", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"The Art of Faith Ringgold documentary collection"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) was an American painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, teacher, and activist. The collection consists of ten videos dating from 1986 to 1987. The bulk of the collection is footage from the documentary <span class=\"title\">The Art of Faith Ringgold</span> (1987) by Jill Strauss."}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"English"}
origination
{"value"=>"Ringgold, Faith", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) was an American painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, teacher, and activist. In 1983, Ringgold developed story quilts as an original art form, incorporating narrative text and imagery that addressed issues of race, gender, and social justice. Her quilts are a central focus of Jill Strauss's documentary, and the collection.</p> <p>Over the course of sixty years, Ringgold's quilt works, paintings, and textile sculptures have been the subject of exhibitions and retrospectives at institutions around the world including the New Museum in New York City, New York. Public collections across the country have acquired Ringgold's artworks, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Ringgold authored a number of books, including the award-winning children's book <span class=\"title\">Tar Beach</span> (1991), inspired by her story quilt of the same name. For further titles and artworks, see the Related Materials note.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of ten videos dating from circa 1986 to 1987.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The The Art of Faith Ringgold documentary collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/23983#c1737247'>SERIES I: FOOTAGE: RINGGOLD</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series includes ten videos dating from circa 1987, organized alphabetically by title. The titles originated from the donor unless otherwise indicated. Jill Strauss directed and edited the short documentary <span class=\"title\">The Art of Faith Ringgold</span> (1987) as part of her undergraduate senior project at State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase. The footage includes the documentary, as well as interviews with Ringgold, and footage of her story quilts. Since 2014, Strauss has been a professor of Conflict Resolution and Communications in the Speech, Communications and Theater Arts department at City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/23983#c1737257'>SERIES II: FOOTAGE: OTHER</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains one video that was not part of the documentary.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Jill Strauss, 2006.</p>"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>See the Moving Image and Recorded Sound, Art and Artifacts, and Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference divisions for additional material by, or featuring, Ringgold, as well as material by her daughter, the writer and academic, Michele Wallace.</p>"}
sponsor
{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
revisiondesc
{"value"=>"Extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-04-30"}
date_start
1986
keydate
1986
date_end
1987
date_inclusive_start
1986
date_inclusive_end
1987
prefercite
{"value"=>"The Art of Faith Ringgold documentary collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}

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