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OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

Elmer Crumbley, Board Chair
Ernest White, Vice Chair
Dave Bird, Treasurer
William Eustace, Secretary
Frank Brown
James Swoopes
Shirley Jordan
Dr. Kam Ching Leung

Neville Murray,
Executive Director/ Curator

Michelle Troxclair,
Administrative Director

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EXHIBITIONS: Faith Ringgold

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Faith portrait

Online Exhibition
Catalogues
“Islands of Spirits”
“Anonymous African American Portraits”
“Lamentations & Celebrations”

"African American Quilts from the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection,"

past exhibitions

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"Anonymous"

African American Portraits

Faith Ringgold

“Dinner at Aunt Connie’s”

Frederick Brown

Jazz Musician Icons

Rudy Smith

"In Our Own Image"

Bernard Stanley Hoyes

"Lamentations & Celebrations"

Dr. Kam Ching Leung

“Islands of Spirits

Juried Nebraska Art Educators Exhibition

African American
Quilts

Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao

1st Annual African American
Exhibition

2nd Annual African American
Exhibition

"Flight For Freedom"

The Tuskegee Airmen

Courage Under Fire

113 year History of Omaha's Black Firefighters

Loves Jazz & Art Center (LJAC) 402-502-5291 Omaha NE 68110-2219
http://www.lovesjazzartcenter.org

Faith RInggold

“Dinner at Aunt Connies”

FRINGGOLD

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The Loves Jazz & Arts Center was pleased to host Faith Ringgold’s exhibition featuring the original illustrations for “Dinner at Aunt Connie’s”.

The traveling exhibit featured original illustrations for Ringgold’s book titled Dinner at Aunt Connie’s and two of her painted story quilts: The Women: Mask Face Quilt No. 1 and The Men: Mask Face Quilt No. 2. These quilts from 1986 combine painting, quilted fabric and storytelling.

Faith Ringgold is married to Burdette Ringgold and has two daughters, Michele and Barbara Wallace; and three granddaughters, Faith, Theodora and Martha. She is a professor of art at the University of California in San Diego, California.

About the Artist:

Faith Ringgold, began her artistic career more than 35 years ago as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts -- art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has written and illustrated eleven children's books. She 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 seventeen honorary doctorates, one of which is from her alma mater The City College of New York.

Faith Ringgold Visits LJAC

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sample illustration from: Dinner at Aunt Connie's House by Faith Ringgold.

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" I peeked into the attic and saw twelve beautiful paintings. I knew I had found
Aunt Connie's surprise.
"Lonnie," I yelled, "please come out of your hiding place."
"Melody," Lonnie answered, "I am right beside you, and I heard that strange.
voice, too."
"Aunt Connie's paintings can talk, Lonnie."
"Paintings don't talk, Melody. Only the artist can speak."
"Yes, we can speak, Lonnie," the voice said.
"Who are you?" we chimed in chorus as we held hands and entered the
strange room.

Faith Ringgold's Website