Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Paint Me a Road Out of Here (2024), directed by Catherine Gund, tells the story of that painting, by the renowned late artist Faith Ringgold ... and working on her own pieces (including a studio ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

But Ringgold, the trailblazing African American artist whose "narrative quilts" and other pieces are in the permanent collections of the Met, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, and The ...

Artist Faith Ringgold ... helped her sew early on, and Ringgold would go on to use the process to chart her travels, her love of art history, the horrors of the Middle Passage, and a great ...