For Faith Ringgold’s first solo exhibition in New England in nearly 15 years, the Worcester Art Museum spins a show out of a beloved holding, Ringgold’s Picasso’s Studio (1991). This “story quilt,” a combination of painting, narrative, and quilting in a single work, is a show in itself, a beautiful example of the complexity of thought—fictional, historical, activist, and autobiographical—that is present in Ringgold’s work. The exhibition, which includes 15 other works by the artist, takes its title from text in Picasso’s Studio that reads, “You asked me once why I wanted to become an artist and I said I didn’t know. Well I know now. It is because it’s the only way I know of feeling free. My art is my freedom to say what I please. [It’s not important] what color you are, you can do what you want [with your] art. They may not like it, or buy it, or even let you know it; but they can’t stop you from doing it.” —Clara Molot