Faith Ringold Quilts
For this project, students looked at the work of artist Faith Ringold to identify how community can be a basis for creating artwork. Students then created a picture based upon the prompt, "I like to (fill in the blank) in my community." Once students completed the drawing portion of the project, we looked at various quilt square examples and identified patterns within the borders of the quilts. Students then created a patterned border for their quilt squares and attached their quilt squares together to create a paper quilt. Students then compared and contrasted their quilt to the quilt in the book Tar Beach.