I'm so excited! New show at the Guggenheim on Faith Ringgold's artwork!

[CTyankee]

https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/faith-ringgold

Trying to find a date that my art buddy and I can go. Ringgold died a little while back unfortunately. She was a great African American artist who worked in quilts.

Keeping my fingers crossed that my art buddy can go with me. We did a great trip to Europe a few years ago to see the Bruges Madonna and the Ghent Altarpiece. It was a terrific art experience.

[elleng]

1. I didn't know you went to see Bruges Madonna and Ghent Alterpiece!!!

A great movie, The Monuments Men!

[CTyankee]

2. My buddy Barbara and I went to Bruges, Belgium where they were experiencing an upswing in tourism.

Not because of Michelangelo's sculpture but because it was a "new" place to visit. It was considered very cool.

I have always wondered how the Belgians knew about Michelangelo and summoned him based on his reputation. I guess word of mouth travels and there was a good deal of trade between the two countries. My guess only...

[Meowmee]

7. I saw the Bruges Madonna years ago I think when were living in England

My school had a trip to Belgium 😁

[Meowmee]

3. Great 😁

I used to go to her exhibits in galleries when I was a grad student in Manhattan. One of my friends met her at an opening years later. Back then I could get into any museum for free, those were the days. I love the Guggenheim, we always used to walk up from the Met. I didn' t know she died.

[CTyankee]

4. She was a determined woman and insisted that quilting was a form of art but had not gotten the respect it should have

because it was an art of women not men. She deserves a place of honor for insisting on that truth.

[Meowmee]

5. Definitely... her work was impressive and so different

I used her work as part of my exams /lectures etc. My friend said she was very nice 😁

[CTyankee]

6. Did you teach art history or just American history?

[Meowmee]

8. I teach combo of art history and studio art

[CTyankee]

9. I would love to see the outlines of your courses!

I got interested in art after I had already finished my masters in liberal studies. I wrote some essays on art and published them here on DU, then my daughter put them in a book and we published it privately. I've since written a second book about how artists dealt with the portrayal of music. It is finished and I'll self publish that soon.

[Meowmee]

10. They're very different now but maybe boring to read 😹

I am mostly teaching online now but also in person as required, but fingers crossed for online for another 2 semesters. My mother was a talented painter but got switched out of the art programs in her school and became a teacher and later did a phd in English Lit, but we used to paint landscapes together and my parents took us to museums etc. all over the world when we traveled and here. I was dragged to numerous cathedrals in GB and Europe, and later did some large sculptures of some, but then switched back to painting because ceramics is very problematic.

I had a few very talented students and one gave me one of his drawings as a gift which I have hanging in my home.

I'de like to see your book too 😁

[Hekate]

11. Yes. I loved her work -- the story-quilts are fabulous

In 1993 when I still worked at UCSB for a Math professor, the only office they could find for me was in the Art building next to a small museum. I spent a lot of my lunch hours visiting that museum. I got to watch a visiting group of Tibetan monks create a sand mandala, which was awesome. I also got to see a travelling exhibit of Faith Ringgold’s quilts. Not long afterward she did a book-signing, so I have two of her beautiful children’s books signed to me.

I did not know that she had died — I am so sorry to hear that. Her art will live on, and through her books, will reach wider audiences. I hope there will always be people who cherish her genius with fabric art.