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Faith Ringgold Illustrate Events From Your Life

The document describes three scenes from Faith Ringgold's book Seven Passages to a Flight which depicts key moments from her life with fantastical elements. It provides instructions for an activity where students illustrate and bind important life events in an illustrated autobiography. The last scene shows Ringgold and her husband against the background of their New Jersey home.

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Faith Ringgold Illustrate Events From Your Life

The document describes three scenes from Faith Ringgold's book Seven Passages to a Flight which depicts key moments from her life with fantastical elements. It provides instructions for an activity where students illustrate and bind important life events in an illustrated autobiography. The last scene shows Ringgold and her husband against the background of their New Jersey home.

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Mondays with MoMA

Plate (folio 16) from Seven Passages to a Flight

Plate (folio 20) from Seven Passages to a Flight


Step 1 Step 3
Look closely Illustrate key events from
your life
Questions
1. What is happening in these pictures? Materials: several sheets of paper, pencils,
2. These are scenes from the artist’s life - colored pencils or markers, (optional)
what can you learn about the artist from staples or thread
the images and text?
3. What other details do you notice? 1. Choose 3-4 important events in your
life
Step 2 2. Illustrate these life events, adding
Learn more imaginary elements if you like.
3. Think of decorative elements, such as
These are three scenes from Faith borders, that you might want to add to
Ringgold’s Seven Passages to a Flight, a unify all your drawings.
book of nine etchings, paired with text, 4. Write a couple of sentences about each
that depict the story of Faith Ringgold’s image that explain why this life event
life, career and family, as well as Black was important to you.
history. Inside the book, she depicts key 5. (Optional) Bind the pages of your story
moments in her life, with fantastical together in a book, by stapling or
elements such as people flying, a common punching holes and sewing together
theme in Ringgold’s work. The scenes with thread. Or you can arrange the
included in this lesson represent: images into a quilt format.
● Ringgold as a child drawing and painting
on pieces of fabric while recuperating Step 4
from illness Share!
● A mural of prominent Harlem figures,
Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson, Share your illustrated autobiography with a
which she made for New York City’s friend, classmate, or family member. Or,
125th Street subway station. you can email photos to us at MoMA:
● Ringgold and her husband against the [email protected]
background of the Washington Bridge
and their home in New Jersey.
Teaching Tip: Learn more about this work
Ringgold often incorporated quilting into
from the San Diego Museum of Art:
her work, a skill she learned from the
youtu.be/t4_elY1KNHk
women in her family. The colorful triangles
that make up the border are inspired by
quilts as well as Central African motifs.
Other museum collections have editions of
these etchings in a quilt format.

Volkswagen of America is proud to be MoMA’s lead Image: Faith Ringgold. Seven Passages to a Flight.
partner of education. 1995. Illustrated book with nine etchings with hand
additions and pochoir on linen, including cover. Brighton
Generous support for School and Teacher Programs Press, San Diego. The Ralph E. Shikes Fund. © 2021 Faith
is provided by the Carroll and Milton Petrie Education Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Program Endowment, the William Randolph Hearst
Endowment Fund, and the Mimi and Peter Haas
Endowment Fund for Elementary School Programs.

Additional funding is provided by the Ducommun


and Gross Family Foundation and by the Annual
Education Fund.

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