Since childhood, the multifaceted American artist Faith Ringgold—painter, sculptor, performer—has thrived on creativity. Born in 1930 at Harlem Hospital, during the Harlem Renaissance, Ringgold’s neighborhood was quickly becoming a bastion for the arts. As a young woman Ringgold visited Paris, where she was taken with the quilts in the Louvre. When she returned to America, she began to experiment with quilting, infusing the patchwork pieces with political comment; Ringgold called these pieces the “French Collection.” During those years, she also worked in the New York public school system, teaching children and putting those narratives into children’s books. This exhibition explore Ringgold’s lifelong work as an educator. —Elena Clavarino