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To honor and recognize Faith Ringgold for her decades of creative achievement and contributions to the arts.
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WHEREAS, Faith Ringgold is a world-renowned artist and author whose bold paintings and prints, narrative quilts, and multimedia sculpture promote social justice by dealing head-on with issues of race and gender; and
WHEREAS, Faith graduated from the City College of New York in 1955 with an undergraduate degree in fine art and education, and in 1959 with her master of fine art degree; and
WHEREAS, during the 1960s, Faith created paintings and posters that carried strong messages about civil and women's rights, and she has continued to take on the important causes of our time ever since; and
WHEREAS, Faith's work has been exhibited around the world and is in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and
WHEREAS, an enduring legacy of Faith Ringgold's decades in the arts is her commitment to expanding opportunities for her fellow artists and increasing the public's access to fine art, as evidenced by her establishment of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation, whose mission is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African diaspora and to introduce the great masters of African-American art and their art traditions to new audiences; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council hereby honors and recognizes Faith Ringgold for her decades of creative achievement and contributions to the arts.