Artist Faith Ringgold on learning to represent Black people (1991 interview) | Fresh Air

Artist Faith Ringgold combined painting and quilt-making to create brightly colored and patterned story pictures. She lived in Harlem and taught half the year at the University of California at San Diego. Her picture book for children, "Tar Beach," was inspired by her story quilt of the same name.
This interview originally aired March 29, 1991.
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