How Did The Art Of Faith Ringgold Contribute To The Women's Liberation Movement?

From 1960s to 1970s, black female artists had campaigned against social and gender injustice caused by the white dominancy in the visual arts on their own power. According to Tesfagiorgis, their art during the women’s liberation movement clearly revealed Afrofemcetric characteristics and values. Also, she points out one of the leading figures was Faith Ringgold in the article Afrofemcentrism and Its Fruition in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold. Personally, I agree with her perspective because many black female artists demonstrated a sense of injustice and its artistic manifestations based on both African continuum and feminist consciousness. Therefore, I explore art of Faith Ringgold in the women’s liberation movement, what Afrofemcetric chracteristics she
For example, even in the field of newly formed feminist art history, Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Mathews points out, “Feminist art history has come dangerously close to creating its own cannon of white female artists (primarily painters), a cannon that is almost as restrictive and exclusionary as its male counterpart.” In other words, there is no new feminist art history for the black female artists. Rather, there is only replication of the male centered art history now established by the white female hands. Also, in practical term, Ringgold recalls “During the years from 1968 to 1970, I was caught up in a steady stream of activities protesting MoMA’s exclusion of black artists…I spent many days at the museum distributing questionnaires to museum-goers in an attempt to expose the racist exclusion of black art from the MoMA exhibition