Faith Ringgold - Tar Beach

Collection 23 - New York City

Painting Information

Artist: Faith Ringgold

Title: Tar Beach

Year: 1992

Movement: African American Art

Museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Current Display Schedule

Art Docent Project Details

Tar Beach

Learn more about this quilt at:
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/3719
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/3-things-tar-beach-faith-ringgold-2130575
Faith Ringgold Reads Tar Beach

Watch Faith Ringgold read from her 1991 children’s book Tar Beach.
https://youtu.be/h9RKJleFdBU?si=zl8xXhFNKr-OOLrU
Classroom Discussion and Art Activities

How to talk about the work
* Watch Faith Ringgold read Tar Beach together, then have kids draw themselves flying above their own dreamscapes
* Make a Story Quilt