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Artist Faith Ringgold in front of her painted self portrait

Artist Faith Ringgold on Learning to Represent Black People

Ringgold combines painting and quilt making to create brightly colored and patterned story pictures. She lives in Harlem and teaches half the year at the University of California at San Diego. She's just completed a picture book for children, "Tar Beach," inspired by her story quilt of the same name.

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Other segments from the episode on March 29, 1991

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 29, 1991: Interview with Elmer Bernstein; Interview with Faith Ringgold; Interview with Nick Park; Review of the film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of…

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