Ringgold

Grades 1-6 go to school in Ringgold, the junior and senior high kids go to Stoneburg, and the new district was named Gold-Burg -- a name which drove my cosmopolitan relatives in paroxysms of laughter, because this is utterly Baptist country with a wide anti-Semitic streak.

Requiem For A Tiny Town 2009

Years later, he would marry the Hawkins County widow in Ringgold, Ga., a small city outside of Chattanooga still known today as the marriage capital of Georgia.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

Grades 1-6 go to school in Ringgold, the junior and senior high kids go to Stoneburg, and the new district was named Gold-Burg -- a name which drove my cosmopolitan relatives in paroxysms of laughter, because this is utterly Baptist country with a wide anti-Semitic streak.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

This may simply be a case of guilt by association, since Ringgold is best known as a quilt artist.

Jilted quilts Roger Sutton 2007

[Thomas Duckett's lived in Ringgold, GA until graduation from high school.]

Duckett, Thomas A. 1991

Ringo was occasionally erroneously referred to as "Ringgold" by the newspapers of the day, but this was not his name, and there is no evidence that he ever deliberately used it.

Archive 2009-08-16 Toby O'B 2009

Captain Ringgold, which is that you will give us a passage to Colombo, "added Lord Tremlyn.

Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859

Around the same time, women activists place eggs in several galleries of the Whitney Biennial to protest their exclusion -- Faith Ringgold paints her eggs black with an inscription in red that reads: "50%!"

Penelope Andrew: !W.A.R.: Fighting the Politics of Exclusion by Documenting a History of Women's Art (and Much More) Penelope Andrew 2011

Anyone who feels feminists don't have a sense of humor and sit around spinning their wheels whining all day hasn't experienced Ringgold or the Whitney's first woman curator, the late Marcia Tucker, who after being fired in December 1976 started The New Museum in January 1977.

Penelope Andrew: !W.A.R.: Fighting the Politics of Exclusion by Documenting a History of Women's Art (and Much More) Penelope Andrew 2011

Women Student Artists for Black Artists Liberation, which no one knew included only the artist and her daughter, Ringgold called the powerful, well-known artists Robert Rauschenberg and Carl Andre, and demanded "50% integration of women and artists of color" in their upcoming exhibition or her group would stage a protest.

Penelope Andrew: !W.A.R.: Fighting the Politics of Exclusion by Documenting a History of Women's Art (and Much More) Penelope Andrew 2011