This is a virtual program via Zoom. We invite you to join us in the Conference Center to watch it together in real-time. If you prefer, you also have the option to watch it virtually from home.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) will present a virtual presentation focusing on the long history of collaboration between artist Faith Ringgold and FWM. The lecture will begin with the story of Ringgold’s 1990 residency at the Museum where her paintings were first translated into a screenprinted quilt for Tar Beach # 2. It will also follow the Museum’s recent explorations with pigment dye for Dancing on the George Washington Bridge. This presentation will include images and stories, process materials, and process demonstrations live from FWM's studio in Philadelphia.

Faith Ringgold’s quilt, Tar Beach 2, “tells the story of a young African American girl who grows up in Harlem, spending her time outdoors on the rooftops of her urban landscape. The narrative is told through text and image, which are printed with dyes on silk duppioni. Ringgold chose a variety of decorative fabrics to border the quilts, making each quilt in the edition of 24 unique. In 1991, Ringgold published Tar Beach as a children’s book (Crown Publishers). It has won over twenty awards, including the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for best illustrated children’s book in 1991.” (https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/artist/faith-ringgold/)

This program is part of the One Book, One Cherry Hill series. Funding for One Book, One Cherry Hill is made possible with support from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and Friends of the Cherry Hill Public Library.