Member Preview: Faith Ringgold: Seeing Children

Members see it first and free! On Thursday, June 26, discover this new exhibition before it opens to the public.

American artist Faith Ringgold (1930–2024) is widely known and celebrated for her paintings and multimedia art, including narrative quilts. However, her award-winning accomplishments as a children’s book creator are less well known. This summer, the High presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of original paintings and drawings made for more than a dozen of her children’s books, featuring more than one hundred works, including several that have never previously been exhibited. These include original paintings from If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks (1999), Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House (1993), and Tar Beach (1991), in which Cassie, a Black child in 1930s Harlem, imagines a future where she can go anywhere that she dreams of from her apartment’s rooftop. Also on view are complete artworks from the fairy tale The Invisible Princess (1999) and We Came to America (2016), which examines the history of immigration in America. Together, the artworks in the exhibition illuminate critical aspects of Ringgold’s practice and convey how Ringgold, a lifelong educator, presents children as creative, purposeful art makers. The exhibition is the latest in the High’s popular series celebrating children’s book art and authors.

Preregistration is required. Please enter the exhibition at your designated time to prevent overcrowding in the galleries.