Painting Information
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Title: Tar Beach II
Year: 1992
Movement: African American Art
Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art and Savahnah College of Art and Design
Art Docent Project Details
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Art Docent Project Ideas
Learn more about this lesson from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Teacher Resources here.
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Faith Ringgold Reads Tar Beach
Watch Faith Ringgold read from her 1991 children’s book Tar Beach.
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Class Activity
* Make a Collective Story Quilt with the whole class.
* Watch Faith Ringgold read Tar Beach together, then have kids draw themselves flying above their own dreamscapes