{"id":468,"date":"2025-02-13T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:31:55","slug":"a-new-documentary-traces-how-a-faith-ringgold-mural-at-rikers-island-helped-women-break-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/a-new-documentary-traces-how-a-faith-ringgold-mural-at-rikers-island-helped-women-break-free\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Documentary Traces How a Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island Helped Women Break Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1971, Faith Ringgold<\/a> (1930-2024) received her first public art commission. New York City offered the late artist a $3,000 grant to paint a mural at the Women\u2019s House of Detention on Rikers Island. After going inside and speaking with those incarcerated in the notorious prison, Ringgold decided to base the work around a request from one of the women about what she hoped the piece would depict: “I want to see a road leading out of here.”<\/p>\n

In Ringgold’s characteristically bold palette, the resulting mural features more than a dozen figures, many of whom are employed in professions unavailable to women at the time. Vibrant and sliced into eight sections, “For the Women’s House” portrays doctors, bus drivers, basketball players, and the yet-to-be-realized vision of a woman as president. The large-scale work was a tribute to the deferred dreams of those who were locked up and a directive to reimagine the stereotypes put on incarcerated people.<\/p>\n

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