Tour of Faith Ringgold: American People at the New Museum
Thursday, April 7, 6:00PM EST
Join Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant at the New Museum, for a conversational in-person tour of the exhibition “Faith Ringgold: American People”, which brings together over fifty years of work by Faith Ringgold, providing the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s impactful vision. The tour will be followed by a discussion with Madeline on her curatorial career path and the making of the exhibition.
Members only - 15 guests max
About the exhibition: “Faith Ringgold: American People” is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this groundbreaking artist’s vision, highlighted by the first full presentation of her historic French Collection in over twenty years along with many other quintessential works that will be exhibited together for the first time in decades. Featuring Ringgold’s best-known series, this show examines the artist’s figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change. The exhibition also foregrounds her radical explorations of gender and racial identities, which the artist incorporates into the rich textures of her paintings, soft sculptures, and story quilts. Among the most important artworks of the past fifty years, Ringgold’s fabric works combine local traditions and global references to compose a polyphonic history of this country. Long overdue, this retrospective provides a timely opportunity to experience the art of an American icon.
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Madeline Weisburg is a curator, editor, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Curatorial Assistant at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Curatorial Researcher for the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Madeline has previously has held curatorial positions at the Jewish Museum and in the Department of Photography at MoMA. She was 2017–18 Curatorial Fellow at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, post at MoMA, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History: Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA) from Columbia University and a dual BA in Art History and BFA in Studio Art from Tufts University in partnership with the School of the Museum Fine Arts, Boston.