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Friday, October 18, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Artist and author Faith Ringgold will speak at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23, in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The event is free and open to the public.
Ringgold has written and illustrated eleven children's books, including "Tar Beach," a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. Her painted story quilts have been exhibited in museums worldwide and are in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Ringgold, a professor of art at the University of California in San Diego, has received more than 75 awards, fellowships, citations, and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and 17 honorary doctorates.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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