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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 "Untitled"
- Betye Saar, "Now You Cookin’ with Gas,"
- 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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All Power to the People
Title
All Power to the People
Description
In the early 1970s, Ringgold produced several posters using cut-and-pasted paper in red, green, and black --that is, the colors of the Pan-African flag. Two of these posters were intended to be reproduced and sold in support of the Committee to Defend the Panthers, a mostly white group fundraising for the legal fees of Black Panther Party members. Ringgold’s first design presents a black, mask-like face flanked by two profile silhouettes and encircled by the organization’s name. The Committee refused Ringgold’s poster because it displayed the group’s address, potentially endangering its members. Ringgold’s second design, which featured an armed, African American family, was also rejected by the Committee. “I was never able to please them,” Ringgold said. “...I think they did not understand that political art is art.” The posters nonetheless demonstrate Ringgold’s expert skill in uniting figure and text, a hallmark of the visual art of the Black Arts Movement. The designs were recently resurrected as serigraphs printed by Driskell Center director Curlee Raven Holton, Ringgold’s master printer.
Creator
Faith Ringgold
Date
2022 (original 1970)
Format
Serigraph
Provenance
Collection of Curlee R. Holton
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Citation
Faith Ringgold, “All Power to the People,” Ringgold | Saar: Meeting on the Matrix, accessed December 23, 2024, https://black-printmaking.artinterp.org/items/show/25.