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Feb 2024
9m 29s

Faith Ringgold | Dancing at the Louvre

KYLE WOOD
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Faith Ringgold is a contemporary American artist. She studied art education and started as a painter, but she is best known for her story quilts. She has written and illustrated seventeen children's books. The most famous was Tar Beach which started as a quilt but later became an award-winning, best-selling book. In this episode I discussed her story quilt D ... Show More
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