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- Meeting in the Moment: The Black Feminism of Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar in the 1960s and Beyond
- Power to the People Faith Ringgold’s Black Panther Posters
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- Betye Saar and Faith Ringgold: Printing New Possibilities at The Fabric Workshop and Museum
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- Betye Saar, "The Long Memory"
- Faith Ringgold, "Committee to Defend the Panthers"
- Faith Ringgold, "Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham City Jail"
- Faith Ringgold, "You Put the Devil in Me "
- Faith Ringgold, "Declaration of Freedom and Independence"
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DAVID C. DRISKELL CENTER
COLLEGE PARK, MD. – The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, is proud to present its spring 2023 exhibition, RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix; the exhibition is on view at the Driskell Center from January 26 – May 22, 2023. The exhibition will be the first time the works of Ringgold and Saar are featured together in an exhibition devoted to print media. This exhibition was collaboratively curated by graduate students in the University of Maryland Department of Art History and Archaeology, including: Maura Callahan, Ashley Cope, Montia Daniels, Joohee Kim, Caroline Kipp, Cléa Massiani, Maggie Mastrandrea, Dominic Pearson, Gabrielle Robinson-Tillenburg, with support from Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese and the Driskell Center staff. For further historical, thematic context to the exhibition and the intersecting practices of both artists, the curators created a compendium website containing additional prints from the Center’s collection, essays, interactive features, audio tours, and archival materials, forming connections between key works, in and beyond the gallery.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix
For decades, Faith Ringgold (b. 1930) and Betye Saar (b. 1926) have incorporated printmaking as a vital component of their multidisciplinary practices, yet their mutual connection to printmaking remains underrecognized. RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix highlights the print work of these two landmark artists, providing a window into the material and conceptual explorations at play in their distinct practices. Both artists have uniquely utilized the matrix—the printmaking surface which transfers ink onto paper or fabric—as a site of possibilities for experimentation, storytelling, and activism.
Through this unique and multivalent medium, two legacies meet and continue to inspire. RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix places the prints of these two artists in thematic and formal conversation to cast each other's work in a new, dynamic light while simultaneously emphasizing the singular power of each artist's contributions to the medium.
This exhibition is sponsored by The David C. Driskell Center, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Elizabeth Carter Foundation, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, and Arts for All. Additional support was provided by the Department of Art and the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
Special thank you to Amadi Boone, ACA Galleries, Cleophus Thomas, Lewis Tanner Moore, Julie Farr, Kevin Cole, Curlee R Holton, John Williams, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art.
Many thanks also to The David C. Driskell Center Staff, the Department of Art and Archeology at the University of Maryland, Taras Matla, Quint Gregory, Marco Polo Juarez, Alicia Perkovich, Clare Daly, Nan Zhong and Aaron Rice.