For 60 years, she has made art about her own experiences and those of women, children, immigrants and the Black community – in other words, the American experience. This declaration – that art is for all people, as makers, subjects and viewers – finds continuous expression in Ringgold’s work. She and her fellow organisers were arrested and charged with desecration of the flag, but the next month, she delivered a speech at Judson and began by reiterating the community’s ‘commitment to raise the experience of human existence from a mere mechanical exchange of art and money to a cultural revolution for people through art’. In November 1970, Faith Ringgold co-organised ‘The People’s Flag Show’ at the Judson Memorial Church in New York, a group exhibition that protested the Vietnam War and insisted on artists’ First Amendment right to use the American flag as material.
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