Hear Bay Area artists Angela Hennessy, Hannah Waiters, and Mattie Loyce discuss the lasting impact of Faith Ringgold’s creative and community work. Devin Malone, our director of public programs and community engagement, will moderate.

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About the speakers

Angela Hennessy (she/her) is an Oakland-based artist and associate professor at California College of the Arts where she teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death in contemporary art. Through writing, studio work, and performance, her practice questions assumptions about death and the dead themselves. She uses a spectrum of color and other phenomena of light to expose mythologies of identity. Ephemeral and celestial forms are constructed by everyday gestures of domestic labor — washing, wrapping, stitching, weaving, brushing, and braiding. https://www.angelahennessy.com/

Hannah Waiters (she/her/they/them) was born, raised, and trained to make art in the Bay Area (of Ohlone land), and is a visual researcher, conceptual artist, and educator. Her interdisciplinary research-based art practice interests include museum studies, Black Atlantic philosophy, historical phenomenology in art history, and historical materialism. In 2021 Waiters earned an MFA in fine arts and an MA in visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts. @waiter2z

Mattie Loyce (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, facilitator, and community advocate. Critically engaging sociopolitical content and encouraging empowerment through decolonial and holistic collaborations are key to their community work and socially engaged artist practice. Throughout their career and across continents, they have made a commitment to amplifying and supporting the lives of people with marginalized identities, specifically people and artists of the African diaspora, queer people, and people of color. https://mattieloyce.com/

Devin Malone (they/them) is a cultural producer based in California. They have produced education programs at Dia Art Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Always in collaboration, Malone develops engagement programs that prioritize sustained reciprocal relationships with historically underserved artists and communities. They hold an MA in museum and exhibition studies from the University of Illinois Chicago and a BA in anthropology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are currently the director of public programs and community engagement at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

About the exhibition

Bringing together fifty years of work, Faith Ringgold: American People is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Faith Ringgold’s groundbreaking vision. Featuring works from across Ringgold’s best-known series, this show tracks the development of her figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change. Throughout her career, Ringgold has drawn from personal and collective histories to both document her life and amplify the struggles for justice and equity. From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Ringgold has produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience. Long overdue, this retrospective provides a timely opportunity to engage with the art of an American icon.

COVID-19 guidance

Masking is strongly recommended, but no longer required for members of the public or employees while in the museum.

Ticket info

This is a free event, taking place during the Faith Ringgold Celebration. Seating is limited and unassigned. Tickets are distributed on a first-come first-served basis in front of the Koret Auditorium an hour before the panel begins. This does not include admission to the Faith Ringgold exhibition.

Contact info

Public Programs
publicprograms@famsf.org
415.750.7694