Today is the birthday, in 1930, of Faith Ringgold, American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York City, and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the City College of New York. She was an art teacher in the New York City public school system. As a multimedia artist, her works explored themes of family, race, class, and gender. Her series of story quilts, designed from the 1980s on, captured the experiences of Black Americans and became her signature art form. During her career, she promoted the work of Black artists and rallied against their marginalization by the art museums. She wrote and illustrated over a dozen children’s books. Ringgold’s art has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the permanent collections of The Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
‘I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington bridge.’ Faith Ringgold, 1988
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Today is the birthday, in 1985, of American singer, songwriter, musician Bruno Mars, (Peter Gene Hernandez). He scored the 2010 worldwide No.1 ‘Just The Way You Are’ and the 2011 hit ‘The Lazy Song’. He also featured on Mark Ronson’s 2014 single ‘Uptown Funk’, which became Billboard’s best-performing song of the 2010s. His debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans received five nominations for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for the single ‘Grenade’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
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