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    Story Quilts: Alfreda Harris on Faith Ringgold

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    Presented by Flint Public Library at Flint Public Library

    August 12, 2010

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    Throughout history quilts have been the hiding place of great stories. The Flint Public Library invites you to see and hear "Coming to Jones Road: Under a Blood Red Sky, 2000," a rare story quilt by famed author and fabric artist, Faith Ringgold. Alfreda A. Harris, storyteller, Michigan Humanities Scholar and writer, presents this program on Ringgold's life and works at the Flint Public Library, 7 p.m. Thursday, August 12. About "Jones Road" Ms. Ringgold says, "I have tried to couple the beauty of this place with the harsh realities of its racist history to create a freedom series that turns all of the ugliness of spirit, past and present into something livable." (www.faithringgold.com) Through storytelling and discussion Harris will orate the story within the quilt, and the story behind the quilter. “If you love art, quilts, stories and history you will be enriched by this program” says Harris. The quilt is on loan from the The Mott-Warsh Collection based in Flint, Michigan. The Mott Warsh Collection is a private collection of fine art created by artists of the African-Diaspora (http://m-wc.org/default.aspx). The quilt is on display in the Children’s Room of the Main Library, throughout August. When asked “Why story quilt?” Faith Ringgold said in Black Art In America (June 2010, www.blackartinamerica.com) ‘“I became an artist because I wanted to tell my story in my paintings. In 1980 I completed my autobiography "We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold" Duke University Press. However, I could not get it published until 1995 (15 years later) To get my story out there I began writing my story on my art. Quilts were an art form that would give me the freedom to create as large a painting I chose to and pick it up too. Not only are quilts lightweight to handle but The Quilt is one of the art forms that black people (women in particular) brought with them to America as slaves along with their Music. Halleluyuh! Now I can paint and write in my art. How better to tell my story?”’ Faith Ringgold is the author of 12 children’s books. She has exhibited in major museums. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , and The Museum of Modern Art . Her first book, Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. Alfreda Harris is a renowned storyteller and re-enactor based in Flint. She collected six hundred stories about life in Flint in bygone days for and exhibit called "A View from the Front Porch" with Sloan Museum. Admission is Free. The Flint Public Library is located at 1026 E. Kearsley St. For more information call 810.232-7111. www.fpl.info


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        1026 E. Kearsley St.
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        Flint , Michigan 48502

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        August 12, 2010

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