Anyone Can Fly Foundation Blog

Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation Blog

2011-06-16T10:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF) Blog page. All the latest ACFF information about the; Art With Kids program, Scholars Grant, Lifetimeime Achievement, Print Scholarship, garden party and annual auction can be found here. See photos of the 2007 auction/ exhibition at "ACA gallery". Our friend, Una Karim took some wonderful photos of the garden party and she has them posted on "fliker".

Mission:

The mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce the Great Masters of African American Art and their art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization supported by people devoted to the visual arts.

2012 Lifetime Achievement Winner
Camille Billops

CAMILLE BILLOPS

Known as a filmmaker, Camille Billops has produced and directed six film documentaries. Suzanne, Suzanne was chosen by the Museum of Modern Art for its New Directors Series in 1983. Finding Christa won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992. Her last film, A String of Pearls was chosen “premiere” film for the Planet Africa series at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002.

In 1975 Camille Billops, together with her husband, founded the Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc. an archives of African American cultural materials. This library has interviewed over 340 minority artists and published their lives and work in 24 annual journals of Artist and Influence.

Billops has exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem, as well as in Hamburg, Germany; Cairo, Egypt; Los Angeles and New York. She wrote and published The Harlem Book of the Dead, featuring the poetry of Owen Dodson and the photography of James Van Der Zee. In 2003 she lectured on the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Library of Congress.

Billops has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Fellowship in Filmmaking and the Skowhegan Award for contribution in the arts. This year she exhibited in the photo retrospective for Percent for Art Exhibition in NYC, at the Parsons School of Design, and was elected to the Advisory Board of WAAND—The National Directory of Women Artists Archives at Rutgers University at New Brunswick.

http://www.hatch-billopsarchive.org/about_us/camille_billops.htm

2011 One of a Kind Kid

Mia Woods

At the First One of a Kind Kid Garden Party

May 25, 2011

One of a Kind Kid Garden Party slide show by Barbara Wallace

Email to comments to Ringgoldfaith@aol.com

Sam Gilliam interview videos

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Sam Gilliam, Anyone Can Fly Foundations 2011 Lifetime Achievement fellow was honored at the June 12, 2011 garden party. Michele Wallace interviewed Sam Gilliam about his life and work. The interview takes place in Faith's NJ studio.

video 1
Sam Gilliam On Family

Video 2
Michele Wallace interviews Sam Gilliam at the Anyone Can Fly Foundation Garden Party on June 12, 2011. Sam discusses the early days of the studio museum, exhibitions, travel, politics, civil rights, protests and Sarah Palin.

Video 3
Sam Gilliam at the anyone Can Fly Foundation garden party on June 12, 2011. Interviewed by Michele Wallace. Sam talks about his work Fire flies and Ferris Wheels, his summers print making in Wisconsin with Bob Weege , about meeting the print maker Curlee Holton and he talks about horse shoes, kids, beer and music.

Go to You Tube video on the work, Fire Flies and Ferris Wheels
at http://youtu.be/6Y-E8ox8-2o

Video 4
Sam Gilliam interviewed by Michele Wallace at the Anyone Can Fly Foundation garden party on June 12, 2011. Sam talks about, Bill Weege, Curlee Holton, printmaking, the natural elements related to his work and Paris.

Video 5
Sam Gilliam
Michele Wallace interviews Sam Gilliam at the Anyone Can Fly Foundation Garden party on June 12, 2011 in Faith Ringgold's studio. Sam talks about the size of his art works, fame, being an artist and getting older. © Anyone Can Fly Foundation 2011

Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation Blog

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Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF) Blog page. All the latest ACFF information about the; Art With Kids program, Scholars Grant, Lifetimeime Achievement, Print Scholarship, garden party and annual auction can be found here. See photos of the 2007 auction/ exhibition at "ACA gallery". Our friend, Una Karim took some wonderful photos of the garden party and she has them posted on "fliker".

2011 Lifetime Achievement Winner

Sam Gilliam

The Anyone Can Fly Foundation is proud to honor Sam Gilliam. Acclaimed for his use of saturated color and his highly improvisational spontaneous technique, Gilliam is regarded as one of the most important and inventive colorists of the last 30 years. His works are in museums across the United States and the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Video interviews

bio and images of artwork

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sam_Gilliam.aspx

Interview at the garden party, video

2011 One of a Kind Kid

Mia Woods

At the First One of a Kind Kid Garden Party

May 25, 2011

One of a Kind Kid Garden Party slide show by Barbara Wallace

Mission:

Email to comments to Ringgoldfaith@aol.com

One of a Kind Kid Program

2011-03-24T16:23:00.001-07:00

Zoe DeCosta, self portrait 2010

One of a Kind Kid Program:

The Anyone Can Fly Foundation’s One of a Kind Kid program is in it’s third year. This program selects a “One of a Kind Kid” age 2 – 17 each year and honors that child for their love of art, for being an independent thinker and for being a leader. Each “One of a Kind Kid” becomes a fellow and a member of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation’s family. As a fellow the “One of a Kind Kid’s” are invited each year to the foundation events. The ACF foundation strives to keep track of these children and encourages them to recognize the importance of their imagination and creativity.

One of a Kind Kid Fellows

2009 Kason Waring (aka KK)

2010 Zoe DeCosta

The 2011 One of a Kind Kid Award
will be given at the First annual
One of a Kind Kids Garden party on May 25, 2011

Aubri Williams

Zion Smith

Dominique Hornbuckle

Adriana Pascal

Rachel Williams

Jaylen Budden

Brianna Whitehead Evans

Kyla Butts

Download a 2011 Contest Application (click here)

Welcome to The Anyone Can Fly Foundation Blog

2011-02-16T14:04:00.001-08:00

Save the date for the next

Garden Party

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF) Blog page. All the latest ACFF information about the; Art With Kids program, Scholars Grant, Lifetimeime Achievement, Print Scholarship, garden party and annual auction can be found here. See photos of the 2007 auction/ exhibition at "ACA gallery". Our friend, Una Karim took some wonderful photos of the garden party and she has them posted on "fliker".

Board Members:

Faith Ringgold Pres., Grace Matthews Vice Pres., Barbara Wallace Sec., Marjorie Durden Treas., Barbara Hoffman Esq., Moira Roth, Lisa Farrington and Burdette Ringgold

Contact Information:

Barbara Wallace (347) 573-0528
Grace Matthews (858) 576-0397
ringgoldfaith@aol.com
Send mail to
ACFF inc
P O Box 8082
Englewood, NJ 07631

ACFF is building an "Email List".

If you sign up ACFF will send you an e-mail to let you know about our events.

That's about four e-mails per year.

Cuesta Benberry 2004

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2004 Lifetime Achievemeny

Award Winner

Cuesta Benberry (video interview)

Video interview

Cuesta Benberry, August 2004 St. Louis, Mo.

The Foundation presented Cuesta with this Lifetime Achievement Award quilt

"Video interviews with Cuesta Benberry"

In Honor of Cuesta Benberry (1923-2007)

Distinguished Scholar and Quilt Art Historian

Cuesta Benberry received the first Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from the Foundation. She was wonderful. She passed away on August 23, 2007. We love her and we will miss her.

Faith Ringgold and Custa Benberry at Cuesta's home in St. Louis in 2004

Elizabeth Catlett 2005

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2005 Lifetime Achievement

Award Winner

Elizabeth Catlett

David Driskell 2006

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2006 Lifetime Achievement

Award Winner

David Driskell

Samella Lewis 2007

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2007 Lifetime Achievement

Award Winner

Samella Lewis

Faith Ringgold & Samella Lewis in Los Angeles, CA 2007

Richard Mayhew 2008

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2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Richard Mayhew

with his daughter Ian at the 2008 Garden Party

Click here for more on Richard Mayhew

Dr. Margaret Burroughs 2009

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2009 Lifetime Achievement

Award Winner

Dr. Margaret Burroughs

(click above to see video interview)

Margaret Burroughs reading her poem

Dr. Margaret Burroughs

Dr. Margaret Burroughs from St. Rose Parish, Louisiana, graduated from Chicago Teachers' College in 1937, then received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1948. During the 1940s she taught art in Chicago elementary schools, and published her first children's book, Jasper, the Drummin' Boy (1947). Burroughs was known in the Chicago area as the founder, along with her husband, Charles, of the DuSable Museum of African American History. Opened in the couple's South Side house in 1961 as the Ebony Museum of African American History, the collected artifacts expressed Burroughs' commitment to exploring and sharing the cultural heritage of African Americans.

Statement by President Obama on the Passing of Dr. Margaret Burroughs

Monday, November 22, 2010

Washington, D.C.--(ENEWSPF)--November 22, 2010.

Michelle and I are saddened by the passing of Dr. Margaret Burroughs, who was widely admired for her contributions to American culture as an esteemed artist, historian, educator, and mentor. In 1961, Dr. Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African-American History on the South Side of Chicago, which served as a beacon of culture and a resource worldwide for African-American history. She was also admired for her generosity and commitment to underserved communities through her children's books, art workshops and community centers that both inspired and educated young people about African-American culture.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Dr. Burroughs' family and loved ones. Her legacy will live on in Chicago and around the world.

See article http://www.suntimes.com

Margaret Burroughs 2009 reading her poem "My Philosophy"

2011-02-16T13:34:00.000-08:00

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

2011-02-16T13:33:00.000-08:00

2010 Lifetime Achievement

Award Winner

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Video of a conversation with Faith and Aminah

Welcome to The Anyone Can Fly Foundation Blog

2011-02-16T13:29:00.000-08:00

Save the date for the next

Garden Party

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF) Blog page. All the latest ACFF information about the; Art With Kids program, Scholars Grant, Lifetimeime Achievement, Print Scholarship, garden party and annual auction can be found here. See photos of the 2007 auction/ exhibition at "ACA gallery". Our friend, Una Karim took some wonderful photos of the garden party and she has them posted on "fliker".

Board Members:

Faith Ringgold Pres., Grace Matthews Vice Pres., Barbara Wallace Sec., Marjorie Durden Treas., Barbara Hoffman Esq., Moira Roth, Lisa Farrington and Burdette Ringgold

Contact Information:

Barbara Wallace (347) 573-0528
Grace Matthews (858) 576-0397
ringgoldfaith@aol.com
Send mail to
ACFF inc
P O Box 8082
Englewood, NJ 07631

ACFF is building an "Email List".

If you sign up ACFF will send you an e-mail to let you know about our events.

That's about four e-mails per year.

Conversation with Aminah Robinson and Faith Ringgold

2011-02-16T13:24:00.000-08:00

Welcome to The Anyone Can Fly Foundation Blog

2010-08-30T16:26:00.000-07:00

Save the date for the next
Garden Party
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF) Blog page. All the latest ACFF information about the; Art With Kids program, Scholars Grant, Lifetimeime Achievement, Print Scholarship, garden party and annual auction can be found here. See photos of the 2007 auction/ exhibition at "ACA gallery". Our friend, Una Karim took some wonderful photos of the garden party and she has them posted on "fliker".

Board Members:

Faith Ringgold Pres., Grace Matthews Vice Pres., Barbara Wallace Sec., Marjorie Durden Treas., Barbara Hoffman Esq., Moira Roth, Lisa Farrington and Burdette Ringgold

2009 Lifetime Achievement

Award Winner

Dr. Margaret Burroughs

(click above to see video interview)

1917 -2010

Dr. Margaret Burroughs
1917 -2010
Dr. Margaret Burroughs from St. Rose Parish, Louisiana, graduated from Chicago Teachers' College in 1937, then received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1948. During the 1940s she taught art in Chicago elementary schools, and published her first children's book, Jasper, the Drummin' Boy (1947). Burroughs was known in the Chicago area as the founder, along with her husband, Charles, of the DuSable Museum of African American History. Opened in the couple's South Side house in 1961 as the Ebony Museum of African American History, the collected artifacts expressed Burroughs' commitment to exploring and sharing the cultural heritage of African Americans.

Statement by President Obama
on the Passing of Dr. Margaret Burroughs
Monday, November 22, 2010
Washington, D.C.--(ENEWSPF)--November 22, 2010.

Michelle and I are saddened by the passing of Dr. Margaret Burroughs, who was widely admired for her contributions to American culture as an esteemed artist, historian, educator, and mentor. In 1961, Dr. Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African-American History on the South Side of Chicago, which served as a beacon of culture and a resource worldwide for African-American history. She was also admired for her generosity and commitment to underserved communities through her children's books, art workshops and community centers that both inspired and educated young people about African-American culture.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Dr. Burroughs' family and loved ones. Her legacy will live on in Chicago and around the world.

See article http://www.suntimes.com

The 2010 Lifetime Achievement
Award Winner
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Link to Cuesta Benberry symposium

Contact Information:

Barbara Wallace (347) 573-0528
Grace Matthews (858) 576-0397
ringgoldfaith@aol.com
Send mail to
ACFF inc
P O Box 8082
Englewood, NJ 07631

ACFF is building an "Email List".

If you sign up ACFF will send you an e-mail to let you know about our events.

That's about four e-mails per year.

Auction

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The Anyone Can Fly Foundation's

Annual Auction and Exhibition

Monday, October 24, 2011 from 5 - 8pm

ACA Galleries

529 West 20th Street, 5th Floor

New York, NY 10011

Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at the door.

You are invited to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation’s annual auction and exhibition on Monday, October 24, 2011 from 5pm until 8pm hosted by Jeff and Dorian Bergen of ACA Galleries. The theme “Born in the USA” is sure to please and so will the celebrated great art at great prices. The $40 entry fee can be paid at the door or purchased in advance.

All proceed go directly to the ACFF, a 501c3 not for profit foundation.

For more information contact

Grace at 858 576-0397 or Faith at 201 816-1374

ringgoldfaith@aol.com,

2010 Auction "I Can Dream Can't I?"

Artist's (general) donation form

Artist's donation form for art related to the theme

E card

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Holiday Party for Volunteers

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Holiday Party

Auction

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Auction

Garden Party Ticket order form

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Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF)

Garden Party

Sunday, June 12, 2011
due June 1, 2011

The garden party is as the Anyone Can Fly Foundation's annual fundraising event. Please support the ACFF by purchasing a ticket. Ticket donations are $150 per person and $100 per person when you purchase two or more tickets. Advanced reservations are required so please order tickets by June 1, 2011.

Tickets will be required for entrance to the party and will be mailed or e-mailed to your after payment has been received. To purchase tickets mail payment with the Donation Form or call with your credit card information. Tickets will be held at the door if time is short. Please list your name and the names and addresses of your guests when placing your order.

Please help build the AIR (Artist-in-Residency) for Kids endowment fund by making a donation today.

The Anyone Can Fly Foundation Inc is a 501(c)(3) not for profit private foundation and thrives because of your generous contributions. Proceeds will be used to keep the Foundation's mission alive.

(858) 735-0687 Grace’s cell

(201) 816-1374 Faith’s phone

(858) 576-0397 Grace Matthews in San Diego

ringgoldfaith@aol.com

www.anyonecanfly.org

Keep this portion for your records

Sent a payment of $_______ date ___

Payment method:_______________

Payment due June 1, 2011

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2011 Anyone Can Fly Foundation Inc

Garden Party Donation and Ticket Order Form

Please complete and mail before June 1, 2011

[ ] I will not be able to attend the Garden Party but I

would like to make a donation to ACFF

[ ] I have enclosed $150 send me one ticket.

[ ] I have enclosed $200 send me two tickets.

[ ] I have enclosed $_____ send me ____ tickets.

[ ] I have enclosed a donation specifically for the AIR program.

Make check payable to ACFF

I have enclosed a total payment of $_________

Credit card #____________________________________

Exp date____

[ ] Amex
[ ] Master card
[ ] check [ ] Visa

Name on card _________________________________

Billing Address _______________________________

City __________________________________

State, Zip ______________________________

Phone _________________________________

Email__________________________________

Signature_______________________________

Thanks for supporting the ACFF.

How shall we send your tickets?

[ ] Email my tickets

[ ] Send USPO, the old fashioned way.

Mail to: Faith Ringgold

ACFF Garden Party

PO Box 8082

Englewood, NJ 07631-3730

* * * * * *

List your guests’ names and addresses below.

Name _________________________________

Address _______________________________

City __________________________________

State, Zip _____________________________

Phone ________________________________

Email ________________________________

Name _________________________________

Address _______________________________

City __________________________________

State, Zip _____________________________

Phone ________________________________

Email ________________________________

Payment due June 20, 2010

Mail to: Faith Ringgold

ACFF Garden Party

PO Box 8082

Englewood, NJ 07631-3730

(858) 576-0395 or (201) 816-1374 for information

ACFF Print Collection

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Prints from the Anyone Can Fly

Foundation's Collection

are available for sale and proceeds
will benefit and support the foundation.

2. Woman With Jug, 2009 silkscreen

by Robin Miller
8 x 10 inches
$250

3. Crows, 2008

Marva Whitehead

10.5 x 11 inches

silk screened edition of 25

$250.00

4. In My Heart, 2008
Anna Stoa

8 x 10 inches

$250

5. Children See, 2007
Linda Freeman

edition of 25
$250

6. Morning Glories, 2009
Silkscreen

8 x 10 inches

Grace Matthews

Anyone Can Fly Foundation print

made at EPI

$250

7. An homage to Robert Blackburn

Red Square, 2008

Grace Matthews

4 x 4 inches

$100

Edition of 22 printed at EPI

8. Zoe, 2006

Grace Matthews

8 x 10

etching, ed of 25

$300

9. Faith Paints Wanted, 2006,

ed of 25

8 x 10

Grace Matthews

$300

10. Where do all the children go
when their world comes tumbling down?
© Faith Ringgold 2010
12 x 12 inches
silkscreen on paper
$350.
Proceeds from the sale of this print
will support the ACFF
and will go to help Haiti's children

Call Grace Matthews (858) 576-0397
or Faith Ringgold at (201) 816-1374
for more information or to make a purchase.

Note: Additional fees apply for shipping and handling.

I Can Dream Can't I ? 2010 ACFF donation form

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Margaret Burroughs

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Home Page

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Welcome to the Anyone Can Fly Foundation (ACFF) Blog page. All the latest ACFF information about the; Art With Kids program, Scholars Grant, Lifetimeime Achievement, Print Scholarship, garden party and annual auction can be found here. Artists take a look at the "call to artists" (Artists: Yes I Can) inviting artists to participate in the exhibition at the upcoming 2009 auction. See photos of the 2007 auction/ exhibition at "ACA gallery". Our friend, Una Karim took some wonderful photos of the garden party and she has them posted on "fliker". The garden party happens on the Last Sunday in June each year.

Our Mission The mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce the Great Masters of African American Art and their art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization supported by people devoted to the visual arts.

11th Annual Auction

October 14, 2009

6pm - 9pm at ACA galleries

529 West 20th Street NYC

Artists, make art! The theme for 2009 is, Yes I Can.
"Artists click here for more information on 'Yes I Can" .

Thanks for supporting the foundation and attending the
Garden Party on
Sunday, June 28, 2009
"Click here for more details about this years garden party"

Dr. Margaret Burroughs will be honored at the 2009 Garden Party as the Anyone Can Fly Foundation's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.

Lifetime Achievement Awards
2009 Margaret Burroughs
2008 Richard Mayhew
2007 Samella Lewis
2006 Elizabeth Catlett
2005 David Driskell
2004 Cuesta Benberry

Dr. Margaret Burroughs

Dr. Margaret Burroughs from St. Rose Parish, Louisiana, graduated from Chicago Teachers' College in 1937, then received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1948. During the 1940s she taught art in Chicago elementary schools, and published her first children's book, Jasper, the Drummin' Boy (1947). Burroughs was known in the Chicago area as the founder, along with her husband, Charles, of the DuSable Museum of African American History. Opened in the couple's South Side house in 1961 as the Ebony Museum of African American History, the collected artifacts expressed Burroughs' commitment to exploring and sharing the cultural heritage of African Americans.

Board Members:
Faith Ringgold Pres., Grace Matthews Vice Pres., Barbara Wallace Sec., Marjorie Durden Treas., Barbara Hoffman Esq., Moira Roth, Lisa Farrington and Burdette Ringgold

Contact Information:
Barbara Wallace (347) 573-0528
Grace Matthews (858) 576-0397
ringgoldfaith@aol.com

Send mail to
ACFF inc
P O Box 8082
Englewood, NJ 07631

Contact Information
ACFF is building an "Email List".
If you sign up ACFF will send you an e-mail to let you know about our events.
That's about four e-mails per year.

Scholars Wanted
"Interested scholars look at the essays blog page for details".

2009 Print Scholarship
Robin Miller & Carolyn Martin
"read more about the print scholarship"

Richard Mayhew, Lifetime Achievement Award 2008

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Art With Kids Payment Submission Form

2008-05-14T13:09:00.001-07:00

Double click on the form

for larger version then print

or copy and paste into photoshop

Garden Party

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Board of Directors: Pres. Faith Ringgold, Vice Pres. Grace Matthews, Secy. Barbara Wallace, Marjorie Durden CPA Treas. Barbara Hoffman Esq, Dr.Moira Roth, Dr.Lisa Farrington, Burdette Ringgold

2010 Garden Party

Aminah Robinson, Faith Ringgold and Zoe DeCosta photo Brad Matthews

Aminah and Faith photo by Brad Matthews

in the studio photo Brad Matthews

Follow this link to see more great
2010 garden party photos
by Faith Wallace Gadsden

photo: Pennt Dell

photo: Penny Dell

2009 Invite

Click here to see 2009 Garden party photos by Anna Shoots.

2009 Garden party photos by Faith Wallace

2008

2007 Invite

2007 Mailing party in San Diego

2005

2004

2002 invite

2001

1999 Invite (the first garden party)

This was the cover of a booklet with Jones Road text inside

First Garden Party Letter

September 8, 1999

Dear Friends,

Faith Ringgold Inc invites you to the first in a series of Faith's garden parties to be held at our newly completed Jones Road Studio and Garden in Englewood, New Jersey on Sunday, October 3, 1999 from 4pm to 8pm. You will preview the first two painted quilts of the Jones Road Series. The Jones Road Series is a collection of paintings, drawings and prints in which Faith will create the mythological presence of escaped and free black people in New Jersey from the early 1700s through our (still somewhat traumatic) move in 1992. This series of works will benefit the Any One Can Fly Foundation, Faith's foundation, which is currently being formed. Another wonderful reason to celebrate is our daughter, Dr. Michele Wallace, who has completed a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from The Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Congratulations Michele.

Guests will be photographed in the garden and will become subjects of a series of limited edition copied drawings and prints of Faith's Garden. "Picnic at Giverny" was just the beginning. Monet, eat your heart out!

Women come as you are, or wear flowered hats and long colorful dresses. Men make this a day to express yourself, or come as you are. We will be delighted to see you.

You Can Fly

Faith Ringgold, Inc.

Draft 1 of "Putting Jones Road on the Map" by Moira Roth

The Making of Faith Ringgold's Jones Road Series and the annual Garden Parties, Englewood, New Jersey

June 24, 2000
The Garden and The Studio
In the elegant, mysterious and meticulously designed and constructed garden--which contains, aside from towering oak trees, and shrubs and flowers, a pond with fish behind which a waterfall tumbles, a weather-stained wooden pagoda, a white gable-roofed bird house perched on a stand, a "stream" of dry pebbles, and a small stone "fire" fountain and stone bench--I sit reading about the history of slavery in New Jersey.

Earlier this morning I had spent time upstairs in Ringgold's studio, which she had had constructed between July 1998 and March1999. (The garden was designed and created between March and August of 1999.)
It is spacious and tall, well -lit by windows almost the length and height of the walls on either side, and skylights, with piles of brushes and paints on a cluttered table, and an easel with four sheets of paper, rough scenes and one painted plain red (an undercoating for what future image?). The walls are studied with story quilts and prints of the Jones Road Series. (Ringgold and her husband, Burdette, live on Jones Road in the city of Englewood.)

Jones Road Series
In this year's invitation to the Garden Party, Ringgold describes the series," a collection of paintings, drawings and prints in which Faith will channel the stories of escaped slaves and free blacks in New Jersey, from the late 18th century through the present. The sale of these works will help support Faith's Anyone Can Fly Foundation."

FR: "I was thinking of ways to promote my Foundation and thought of annual garden parties. I started talking about it in the spring of 1999 when I was still in California, but the garden was being constructed here."

"The Foundation, however, has been on my mind for a long time. I moved here in 1992 with that in mind: a small house and a large studio that could house my art and my archives, and be the center of my Foundation. That was the whole purpose of getting the house. But when I got the garden, I realized how important it is to have a garden and that the sheer beauty of a garden is an inspiration all in itself. "

"Then there were the problems I had with my hostile neighbors after I moved here that inspired me to give greater attention to the history of black people who had come here centuries before me. "

"I wanted to use the beauty of the place and the hars h realities of the history of this place to create a kind of compenstory series that could turn all this ugliness into something beautiful. I am also trying to speak in their voice which is hardest part."

On one wall in the studio is "Aunt Emmy in White Hat and Dress" (Jones Road No. 3), which was incomplete last year; it still unfinished with more to be done to the painting itself, and after that the border will be repainted. Aunt Emmy is a slight woman. She stands, composed and still, her eyes surrounded by the faint outlines of gray spectacles, and her hands folded neatly in front of her, a purse hanging from one wrist. Her face, clearly delineated, is framed by a large hat, her waist circled by a black sash, and her long-sleeved dress reaches down to the ground. Emmy's white dress and hat are full of subtle pinks and blues that play off both against her dark skin, and the splashes of greens, reds, yellows and blues that form the abstract background.

FR: "I have my mother's grandmother's spectacles. They are gold rimmed, not at all like the cheap plastic ones we have. Of course, I don't know if they are the spectacles that Grandma Bingham is wearing in that photograph."

Next to the painting Ringgold has tacked up a copy of a small blurred photograph of a sturdy, erect and proud-looking black woman in a wide-brimmed white hat; her white dress is framed against the dark foliage behind her, and she holds a purse to her right side. Below is a handwritten caption, "Grandma Bingham."

Grandma Bingham is Ringgold's great-grandmother and a direct connection for Ringgold into slave history.

FR: " Freda, my cousin, and I are meeting regularly to exchange family photos and documents. There are lots of family letters mostly from my mother's side. The letters usually have to do with crisis situations in the family, matters of death and money. That photograph of Grandma Bingham is probably from around 1900, so I wonder when she was born."

"
[At this point, while editing this text together , in order to try to find Betsy Bingham's birth and death date, Ringgold and I go to her study, and browse through books of photographs and letters, from a photograph of Susie Shannon through to contemporary photos, looking at lettters from and to B. B. Posey, Ringgold's grandfather.]

"I want to find out more closely about Grandma Bingham's life. When was she set free--I know she was born into slavery--so I can find out how she got to be so regal.

In Ringgold's 1995 autobiography, We Flew over the Bridge, she describes Betsy Bingham: "My mother was devoted to her mother, and I suspect that in many ways they were very much alike. Grandma Ida's parents, Peter and Betsy Bingham, had been slaves who had acquired land and property in Palatka, Florida, after the Civil War. The earliest traceable member of my family is my great-great-grandmother, Susie Shannon, Betsy Bingham's mother." (p. 69)

Both Betsy Bingham and Susie Shannon appear in Ringgold's Matisse's Chapel (1991). In the tranquil setting of the Vence Chapel's yellow, blue and white stained glass windows, embroidered tapestry and tiled floor, a black audience, composed of portraits of Ringgold's deceased relatives, sits attentively. They are listening to Grandma Bingham telling them a story that her mother told her. Awhite man had asked Susie how it felt to be a descended from slaves , but instead of answering him, she had responded with a question : "How you feel descendant from SLAVERS? " He told her about an episode when his grandparents were on a boat coming from Europe when a strong wind blew the stench of a nearby slave ship toward them--"spraying the ocean liner like a madame sprays perfume, only the scent was pure shit." The result was that all the passengers were violently sick.

This great-grandmother Bingham is also a direct link for Ringgold into the history of black quiltmaking

A few pages later in the autobiography, Ringgold writes that "When she was a little girl growing up in Florida, Mother had learned quilt-making in the free-hand piecing technique her grandmother, Betsy Bingham, had taught her" (p.76).

FR: "Betsy Bingham also taught my mother how to boil the flour sacks until they were soft and white as snow. These sacks were then used as batting to fill the quilts."

By the time of her first Garden Party, held on October 3, 1999, Ringgold had written the beginning of the Jones Road story in which Aunt Emmy plays a pivotal role. The tale is about slaves escaping from the South who finally arrive at Jones Road. The 1999 text (printed in the little book given to the guests of this first Garden Party) begins abruptly.

"The sun went down early that night, cotton fields black, and in no time all of us stepping quiet to the shacks. 'You all come on just follow me,' Barn Door whispered, 'We going north to freedom tonight.' Barn Door had heard a message spoken so loud you'd a thought everyone coulda heard it . . .The voice said, "Barn Door, go ahead. Walk away to freedom. Aunt Emmy waitin for you, isn't nobody gonna stop you now. Wait till nightfall then go . . .Keep a coming till you get to the Palisades then turn onto Jones Road. Look for an old white farmhouse. Aunt Emmy and Uncle Joe and Ma and Pa be there waiting for you. God's on our side. You as good as free. "

"We arrived at the Palisades one morning before daybreak, dog-tired, starving and aching from head to toe . . .Lord, don't let this be a dream and we wake up choppin cotton. Well we was here cuz we see Aunt Emmy and Uncle Joe proud and pretty standing in the morning sun, and the old white farm house with my dead grandmother's quilt on the roof and now we can't walk no more. Just fall on our knees making a river of tears right there on the ground . . . . .God be my witness that's how it happened. That's how we got to Jones Road in the year of our Lord 1792."

Last year when I attended the initial Garden Party, I saw the first three paintings of the Jones Road Series. "Aunt Emmy in White Hat and Dress "(No. 3) was flanked on the left by "Coming to Jones Road" (No. 1) and on the right by "Sunday Evening on Jones Road." (No. 2).

"Coming to Jones Road" shows the slaves (lit only by the light of the moon in the dense sky of dark blue and white clouds) in a long procession, a line that stretches across the canvas, wending their way through the woods; hidden in the trees above them is the white house of Aunt Emmy. In the other scene, "Sunday Evening on Jones Road," the sky is lighter, the moon has disappeared, and now the house is nearer to the figures.

On December 30, 1999, Ringgold began work on another moment in the narrative, "Under A Blood Red Sky," and this constitutes the theme of the works that are now on the studio walls--works that the guests of the second annual Garden Party will see tomorrow.

Again there is an accompanying text (part of this year's invitation book to the garden party), which is an longer version of Ringgold's1999 tale--repeating some of its phrasing, but expanded and adding the birth of the child Freedom and the image of the blood-red sky.

"There was 28 of us and a newborn baby on that long hard sojourn through the woods and swamps. We named the baby Freedom because she was born almost free. By day we prayed for the black of night to come to cover us. By night we crept softly to muffle our steps. We moved as if in one body hardly knowing where we were going, our way lit only by a chalk white moon in a blood-red sky."

On the studio wall next to two 1999 works ("Aunt Emmy in White Hat and Dress" and a small sketch of the slaves arrived at the house), there is a large new work. "Jones Road, No. 4: Under A Blood Red Sky" which depicts the dangerous journey of the slaves at night. Black figures silhouetted on an undilineated red ground move upward, as though on a steep hill, through blue-trunked, green-foliaged trees. . Above them is the red-blood sky and a white moon.

FR: Someone commented to me a little while ago [Buck, the printer who made me a litho of the Blook Red Sky? Faith to check]that it looked to him as you would have to be flying, to be up off the ground, to view the scene in that way."

This story quilt is almost finished excepted for the piping, which Ringgold plans to be red. Around the central scene is a thin yellow border, framed by green piping. Pined up on the wall behind it is a further outer border of layers of handpainted stars, random-patterned and in different sizes; on one side is a red sponge-painted "flying geese" pattern.

FR: " When I talked with Grace Welty, my assistant, about appropriate painted patterns for the borders for the Jones Road Series, she suggested that she look through Hidden in Plain View: A Secret History of Quilts and the Underground Railroad and use some of the slaves' coded quilt patterns.

In Hidden in Plain View: by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard (1999), Tobin describes her meeting with the black quilt maker, Ozella Williams, in Charleston, South Carolina, who tells her about "the Underground Railroad Quilt Code. These were a series of signs and symbols used as secret messages for escaping slaves to find safe houses and get traveling directions to freedom.

The symbolism of the stars and geese in Ringgold's border clearly relate to the "Codes," described in this book. Geese fly north in the spring time or summer, and the Flying Geese pattern is accordingly an indication of both the "direction as well as the best season for slaves to escape." (p.111) The authors, too, write about the symbolism of stars. "Like the star of Bethlehem guiding the Wise Men, the North Star has been historically connected with the Underground Railroad. We see references to it in Frederick Douglass's newspaper, The North Star." (p. 116)

In boxes, packed under the studio, bench, are a series of further unfinished paintings underway in the Jones Road Series. Ringgold is in the midst of completing Jones Road Nos. 5-8, and she shows me the titles: "Long Dark and Lonely Nights"(No. 5), "Baby Freed Came One Night" (No. 6), "We'd Just Keep Coming" (No. 7), and "We Free Now" (No. 8)

On the opposite side of the studio are series of examples from multiple editions. The most elaborate is "Coming to Jones Road" (an edition of 20). Around the rectangular silk-screened image is a carefully inscribed text that starts with "There were 28 of us. . . .", and surrounding that is tie-dye border of abstract shapes in black, brown, red, yellow and green. There is also a copy of a lithograph, "Coming to Jones Road: Under A Blood Red Sky" (a 40- edition). Nearby are two works relating to the first Garden Party: Ringgold's "Faith's Garden Party, #1, October 1, 1999" (a hand-painted etching in an edition of 19), which portrays, in a densely composed group, the 39 guests of the event); and "Faith's Garden #1" (a hand-colored computer print edition of 10) by Grace Welty, an artist and Ringgold's assistant of several years. These limited editions, and subsequent ones (to be created each year) will be sold to help raise money for the Any One Can Fly Foundation which Ringgold is currently creating.

Research for the Jones Road Series
Among the books Ringgold is currently reading are Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, 1999); More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, 1996) and Hidden in Plain View: A Secret History of Quilts and the Underground Railway (Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard, 1999). She has also sought out specific studies of the history of Afro-Americans in New Jersey--the last of the northern states to abolish slavery, and then only gradually.
Among these are Graham Russell Hodges' "Roots & Branch: African Americans in New York and New Jersey, 1613-1863" (1999), Clement Alexander Price's "Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey," (1980), and a slim book entitled "Englewood and Englewood Cliffs"(1998) researched, planned and written by the Friends of the Englewood Library Centennial Book Committee.

FR: "I've an ongoing invitation to talk with scholars at the New Jersey historical Society."

I sit in Ringgold's magical, sun-lit garden on this Saturday afternoon reading one Price's "Freedom Not Far Distant, " which traces the three centuries of black history in the state.

Price writes that "New Jersey had a relatively large black population since the eighteen century," and that when the East and West New Jersey were united in 1702, the West contained many Quakers who protested again slavery, while "the eastern section of the colony was drawn tightly into the orbit of slaveholding New York." (p. 4). The book is basically an anthology, with commentaries, of contemporary newspaper accounts, laws and excerpts from letters, journals, biographies and autobiographies. The captions of the early sections of the book--"Quakers Protest Slavery, 1693", "Law Controlling Slaves, 1694","Slave Courts Established, 1695","Tightening Slave Regulations, 1713"," John Woolman on Racial Justice, 1754" (a Quaker abolitionist in New Jersey), "Duty-Free Importation of Slaves, 1744," (which meant that the state became a major slave trading area in the North) and "Slave Rebel, 1734, 1737" --evoke all too well a sense of the state's deep reluctance to abolish slavery.

There are accounts too of slaves taking matters into their own hands. In the "Taking Their Freedom, 1772-82" section, there are reprints of many newspaper ads describing escaping slaves from New Jersey. For example in the New Jersey Archives there was a thirty-dollar award for Bret. " He can read and write, and 'tis supposed will forge a pass . . . .Tis probable that he may endeavor to get to the Mississippi . . .Those that harbor said fellow may depend on being prosecuted by Jecamiah Smith, May 19, 1773." (P.43).

After the successful Revolution, there was an intense battling out between the pro-slavery and abolitionists forces. In 1786, a New Jersey Act was passed in order "to Prevent the Importation of Slaves Into the State of New Jersey, and to Authorize the Manumission of Them Under Certain Conditions and to Prevent the Abuse of Slaves." (p.73) In the beginning of 1804 the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery submitted a petition to the state's legislature, and almost immediately the cautious, and easy to circumvent, "Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" was passed. (There were by this time 12,422 slaves, 5.8 per cent of the population.) This allowed, for example, for children born of a slave, to be held in bondage until a male was twenty-five years old, and a female twenty-one.There were many abuses of this law including, as Price writes, "unscrupulous owners [who] sold an undetermined number of blacks to slave traders in the southern states." (p. 85)

This is the state to which the fleeing slaves of Ringgold's Jones Road Series arrived in 1792. What was life to be like for them after their arrival in New Jersey, a state still committed to slavery?

FR: "I talked with Michelle Wallace, my daughter, about this. I explained that though I knew there was still slavery in New Jersey, there was not in Aunt Emmy's house because she had a certain power. She knew things about the leading families in the area --secrets about death and crime in their families--and her silence about these bought not only her own freedom but also the freedom of those in her house."

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A VERY ROUGH FIRST DRAFT
June 25, 2000
A warm summer's day for the second annual Garden Party. A mild drama early in the day of an overflowing pool was solved before the 35 guests appeared for sweet festive hours of conversation, strolling and eating….

June 26, 2000
Today there is a sense of business back to usual. As if to reflect this, the weather has turned; it is no longer sunny but actually raining.

Ringgold has now tacked up four unfinished story quilts of the Jones Road Series, two merely at the stage of underpainting, and another is the rough sketching out of "Baby Freedom Came One Night" --the figures cluster around what must be a birth scene which reminds me a little of the American Collection…

The most finished is "Long Dark and Lonely Nights," in which the figures move up from a watery blue -green path toward a forest of trees, and above is the night sky, a dark blue with a gold moon. The trees' tall slim trunks remind me uncannily of the oak trees in Ringgold's garden, which I can see through the window of the studio from where I am sitting.

From where I sit, I also look at two posters--on the door is "Wanted: Douglas, Tubman and Truth" (part of the American Collection), concealed in dense foliage. And I think of the history of Ringgold's representations of slaves and slavery, from her Slave Rapes Series of 1973 to the nightmarish dream in We Came to America.

On a nearby wall is an extraordinary early work, "The United States of Attica "(1971), her most widely distributed poster of the 1970s, and her response to the uprising of prisoners in the NY States Attica prison. The red-gree-and-black poster cotains a litany of acts of violence in America, and at the bottom there is a caption that reads, "This map of American violence is Incomplete. Please write in whatever you find lacking. "

And that is what Ringgold has continued to do through the decades, and here she is looking at the history of violence against slaves in the states in which she has lived since 1992, when she and Burdette left their home in Harlem.

Order your 2009 Garden Party Tickets Now

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Order Tickets for the
11th Annual Anyone Can Fly Foundation
Garden Party Sunday, June 28, 2009

in Englewood, NJ 07631

Ticket prices are $150 per person and $200 per couple. To order tickets mail or fax payment and the Donation Form by June 20, 2009 or call with your credit card information.
Note: After June 25, 2009 fees increase to $200 one ticket and $300 for a couple.

Tickets will be required for entrance to the party and will be mailed or e-mailed to you after payment has been received. Please list your name and the names and addresses of your guests when placing your order. We look forward to hearing from you.

The Anyone Can Fly Foundation Inc is a 501(c)(3) not for profit private foundation and thrives because of your generous contributions. Proceeds will be used to keep the Foundation's mission alive.

(201) 816-1573 fax
(858) 576-0397 Grace Matthews
ringgoldfaith@aol.com
www.anyonecanfly.org

2009 Anyone Can Fly Foundation Inc
Garden Party Donation Form

Please complete and mail before June 15, 2009

_I will not be able to attend the 11th Annual Garden
Party but I would like to make a donation
to support the Foundation.
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Mail to: Faith Ringgold
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Or Fax to (201) 816-1573

2009 Auction

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AIR for Kids Endowment Fund Donation

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The AIR For Kids Program is another way for the ACFF to continue it's mission to the expand the establishment canon to include the Great Masters of African American Art, and to educate both children and adults about the visual arts.

The AIR For Kids Program will feature a combination of day and residential programs featuring art-making workshops, museum visits, and trips to the theaters as well as other cultural institutions in New York. Geared to city kids, ages 5 to 12, AIR events will be scheduled for weekends and summer vacations. Curlee Holton's EPI Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College will provide the printmaking resources for the program. AIR For Kids Program will be a continuation of our Art with Kids for Elementary School Programs.

Use the form below to make a donation to the ACFF AIR for Kids endowment fund.
AIR donation form
Or double click on the form below, then print to send in your donation.

Our Mission
The mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce the Great Masters of African American Art and their art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization supported by people devoted to the visual arts.

Press Release for Oct 14, 2007 Auction

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Grace Matthews
(858) 735-0687 cell

October 11, 2007 New York City. Faith Ringgold’s Anyone Can Fly Foundations’ annual art exhibition and fundraising event will be hosted by ACA Gallery, located at 529 West 20th Street, 5th floor in NYC 10011 on October 11, 2008 from 6pm until 9pm. A $ 40 donation will be requested at the door.

This years auction is a great opportunity to build your art collection with “Passion” the theme of this years auction. The bidding will start at just $25. A variety of works from artists that support the ACFF. Special discount prices on choice works of art will be offered during this three hour special event.

All funds generated from this event supports the foundation’s mission to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce the Great Masters of African American Art and their art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization supported by people devoted to the visual arts.
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If you would like to schedule an interview or more information call Grace Matthews
(212) 690-5134 or email ringgoldfaith@aol.com

Board Members

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Faith Ringgold Pres.
Grace Matthews Vice Pres.
Barbara Wallace Sec.,
Marjorie Durden Treas.
Barbara Hoffman Esq.
Moira Roth
Lisa Farrington
Burdette Ringgold

Cuesta Benberry video 1

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Anyone Can Fly Foundation Artists Donation Form

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For the submission of
Works not Related to the Theme

Dear Artist,

If you are interested in donating an artwork to the foundation for the annual auction and the artwork does not relate to this years theme then please complete the form below. Artists interested in submitting "Dreams" work click here.

Copy and paste the information below into an e-mail or send the requested information in an e-mail. Include a jpeg image of the work. E-mail to Grace Matthews at Ringgoldfaith@aol.com.

Submission information must be sent no later than the end of August to be accepted in the October auction/exhibition.

Call Grace with questions and let me know that you are sending this form, call (858) 576-0397. We will contact you about the time and place that works will be accepted.

Artist’s Name:_________________________________________

Address:_____________________________________________

City, State, Zip:______________________________________

Phone:____________________________

E-mail:____________________________

Web site or blog:____________________________________

Title of Work:________________________________________

Size (not to exceed 36” x 48”):____________

Year created:__________ Medium:______________

Beginning bid price for auction $___________

Fair Market Value: $_________ (retail)

Is work labeled and ready to hang? _________

Do you wish to contribute 100% or 50% from the sale of your work to the Foundation?________

Do you agree to have an image of your work on the foundation web sites? __________

Art works will remain in the Foundation collection unless donated for a short term special exhibit only.

You are responsible for retrieving your work or return shipment.

Signature ___________________________________________

e-mail information to ringgoldfaith@aol.com

In Honor of Cuesta Benberry (1923-2007)

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In Honor of Cuesta Benberry (1923-2007)
Distinguished Scholar
Cuesta Benberry,
Quilt Art Historian

Cuesta Benberry received the first Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from the Foundation. She was wonderful. She passed away on August 23, 2007. We love her and we will miss her.

Cuesta Benberry, August 2004 St. Louis, Mo.

"Video interviews with Cuesta Benberry"

The Foundation presented Cuesta with this Lifetime Achievement Award quilt

Faith Ringgold and Custa Benberry at Cuesta's home in St. Louis in 2004

Auction and Exhibition

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Photos from 2006 auction / exhibition event:

Art With Kids Evaluation

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Anyone Can Fly Foundation
Art With Kids in Elementary Schools
Evaluation Form 2007/2008

Program Topic:________________________ (artist)

Presenter: _____________________

Date: _________________________

School: _________________________

Phone __________________________

Teacher: ________________________

E-mail ____________________________

To help improve future programs please take a few moments today to evaluate the
program and the presenter.

You may also request a self-addressed stamped envelope to mail it to the
Anyone Can Fly Foundation,
P.O. Box 429, Englewood, NJ 07631-0429.
Thank You. Barbara F. Wallace, Secy.
Contact me at (347) 573-0528,
email BarbaraWallace@anyonecanflyfoundation.org

Slide Lecture
1. How many children attended the lecture? _____
2. What grade level(s) attended the lecture? ______
3. Was the presentation interesting_____and informative? ______
4. What was the highlight of the lecture?____
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
5. Any suggestions for improving the lecture program?
_________________________________________

Art Making Workshop
7. How many children attended the workshop? ________
8. What grade level(s) participated in the workshop? ____
9. Which of the artist’s special techniques,
skills and/or style did the workshop explore? _______
____________________________________________
10. What was most valuable about the workshop? _____
___________________________________________
11. Any suggestions for improving the workshop program?
__________________________________________
__________________________________________

Museum visit
12. How many children participated in the museum visit? ________
13. What grade(s) participated in the museum visit? ____________
14. What was most valuable about the museum visit?
___________________________________________
15. Was the museum visit a climactic close for the program?
____________________________________________
16. Describe any problems or logistics that need addressing regarding the museum visit.
___________________________________________
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Presenter
17. What was your impression of the presentation of this program?
____________________________________
____________________________________
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Program
18. In your opinion what was the most beneficial outcome of this program?
_______________________________________
19. Any changes or ideas for future programs?
_____________________________________________
20. Any suggestions to better prepare the teachers for this program?
___________________________________________________
21. Would you recommend this program to other schools? _________
Explain?_________________________________
__________________________________________
Anything to add?__________________________
__________________________________________
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Call For Artists: 2011 Auction: Born in the USA

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"Born in the USA"
is the theme for the
2011 ACFF Auction
Art Drop Off Monday, October 17, 2011
Drop art at 345 West 145th Street, NYC 10031
call 212690-5134 for details
Auction date: Monday, October 24, 2011

Born in the USA template to download

Download the artist donation form for Born in the USA pdf

Download the artist donation form for Born in the USA doc

Dear Artists,

The upcoming theme for the Anyone Can Fly Foundation's 2011 auction is "Born in the USA." What does that mean to you? Make an 8 x 10 picture of your themed art work or download the Born in the USA template and make it your own. E-mail a jpeg photo of your art work along with a donation form upon submission. Submissions are due in Sept. We will frame the work. The auction is scheduled for Monday, October 24, 2011 at ACA gallery in New York City.

Monday, October 24, 2011
ACFF 2011 Exhibition, Auction and Sale
ACA Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011

If you would also like to donate another art work that is not related to the theme then different rules and a submission form apply. Click here to find out more about donating a work that is not related to the theme

Terms of agreement:

I agree to have my work displayed on the web.

I agree to have the bidding begin at $50 for my work at the auction

I understand that my work may or may not be selected for the live exhibition or on-line display.

I understand that I am making a donation of this work to the ACFF and a 100% from its sale

I understand that my work will NOT be returned.

I understand that no work will be accepted after the deadline.

I understand that no work will be accepted without a completed donation form.

I understand that All work must be original one of a kind

I understand that All work must be 8 x 10, unframed

I understand that All work must be flat and ready to frame

I understand that All work must be related to the theme of "I Can Dream Can't I?"

I understand that All work must be labeled with my name and the title of the work

Notes:
1. Email images and donation form to: Ringgoldfaith@aol.com now until the end of Sept 2011.

2. All art works submitted must be original, one of a kind (no photos or copies of an original),8 x 10 and unframed.

3. Jpeg submissions will not be accepted without a donation form. Accepted original works should be sent to Faith Ringgold on or before September 29.
Faith Ringgold
ACFF Auction
PO Box 8082
Englewood, NJ 07631

Or works may be dropped off to Grace on Monday, Oct 17, 2011
at 345 West 145th Street (at Edgecombe Ave) NYC 10031 Call to let me know that you are coming. 212 690-5134

4. The Exhibition/Auction will be hosted by ACA Gallery 529 West 20th Street in New York City 10011 on Mon, October 24, 2011.

5. Print the form below or ask Grace to e-mail a form to you. Double click on the form below to enlarge.

Born in the USA

Artist Donation Form

Anyone Can Fly Foundation

Sept 29, 2011 due date

Auction Monday, Oct 24, 2011

Please print, complete, sign and send this form with your artwork.

Name: ___________________

Phone: __________________

Address:___________________

City, State zip________________

e-mail:_____________________

web site: _________________

Title of Work: ________________

date completed: ____

Media: _______________________

Dimensions: 8 x 10

Note:_______________________

Terms of agreement:

I agree to have my work displayed on the web.

I agree to have the bidding begin at $50 for my work at the auction on Oct 24, 2011.

I understand that my work may or may not be selected for the live exhibition or on-line display.

I understand that I am making a donation of this work to the ACFF and a 100% from its sale

I understand that my work will NOT be returned.

I understand that no work will be accepted after the deadline.

I understand that no work will be accepted without a completed donation form.

I understand that All work must be original one of a kind

I understand that All work must be 8 x 10, unframed

I understand that All work must be flat and ready to frame

I understand that All work must be related to the theme of “Born in the USA”

I understand that All work must be labeled with my name and the title of the work

By signing this document I agree to all of the terms as described above.

______________________________

Artists signature and date

due date:Sept 29, 2011 due date!

Dear Artist, thank you for your creation and for your generous support.

Send artwork to: Faith Ringgold

Anyone Can Fly Foundation

PO Box 8082 Englewood, NJ 07631

Please make a copy of this form for your records. Call or e-mail Grace Matthews

with questions (858) 576-0397 work, (858) 735-0687 cell, RinggoldFaith@aol.com

Download the artist donation form for Born in the USA pdf

Download the artist donation form for Born in the USA doc

Ailene Fields

Jude Harzer

Dawn DeCosta

Joyce Owens

D Bjork

Anna Stoa

Photos from 2006 auction / exhibition event:

Donation form pdf

In Honor of Cuesta Benberry (1923-2007)

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Distinguished Scholar
Cuesta Benberry,
Quilt Art Historian

Cuesta Benberry received the first Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from the Foundation. She was wonderful. We love her and we will miss her.

Cuesta Benberry, August 2004 St. Louis, Mo.

"Video interviews with Cuesta Benberry"

The Foundation presented Cuesta with this Lifetime Achievement Award quilt

Faith Ringgold and Custa Benberry at Cuesta's home in St. Louis in 2004

Art With Kids

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Art With Kids Program 2009

Julie Kring-Schreifels, Faith Ringgold and Trish Maunder

with kids artwork

Anyone Can Fly at Urban Promise!

Using resources provided by the Anyone Can Fly Foundation, grant winners Trish Maunder and Julie Kring-Schreifels had another exciting and successful year with CamdenForward School’s third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade students. They studied the artists: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas and Horace Pippin, and created some amazing prints and paintings in their respective styles. We took trips to see original works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the African American Museum of Philadelphia as well as a full day trip to West Chester, Pennsylvania, Pippin’s hometown and much of the inspiration for his work. As always, it is such a pleasure to teach these aspiring young artists about the contributions of these gifted African American Masters.

Teachers and students are invited to use the lesson plans and research materials from our web site in your own school and classrooms.

1. Romare Bearden, Painter (1911-1988)

2. Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor (b.1915)

3. Aaron Douglas, Painter (1899-1979)

4. Jacob Lawrence, Painter (1917-2000)

5. Martha Erskine Ricks essay

6. Selma Burke essay

7. Richmond Barthé essay

8. Robert Blackburn essay

9. Lois Mailou Jones essay

10. Romare Beardenessay

Forms for Art With Kids Program Teachers:

1. Application

2. Parental Permission form

3. Evaluation Forms

4. Payment form

Art With Kids 2008 & 2007
Friday, April 04, 2008
Anyone Can Fly Foundation

"Students in the CamdenForward School art classes have been very busy this year creating art based on the work of two prominent African American visual artists from the time of Harlem Renaissance. These studies and artworks have been made possible by a grant from The Anyone Can Fly Foundation, (www.anyonecanfly.org) started by the contemporary artist, Faith Ringgold whose work can be seen in museums and galleries worldwide." See more on:

"2008 Art With Kids program at Urban Promise "

"Art With Kids Consent Form 2007" Parental consent form

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Mailing List

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Artists Donation Form

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Due Date is September 1, 2008
To download a printable donation form click the link below.
Then look for and click the "download file" button.

“Printable Artist Donation Form”

Please print, complete, sign and send this form with your artwork.

Name: ___________________________________

Address:__________________________________

City, State. zip____________________________

e-mail:_________________________________

Phone: ___________________________________

Title of Work: _____________________________

Media: ___________________________________
Dimensions: 8 x 10

Terms of agreement:
All work must be original one of a kind
All work must be 8 x 10, unframed
All work must be flat and ready to frame
All work must be related to the theme of Passion
All work must be labeled with your name and the title of that work
I agree to have my work displayed on the web.
I agree to have the bidding begin at $25 for my work at the auction on Oct 11, 2008.
I understand that my work may or may not be selected for the auction or for display on-line.
I understand that my work will NOT be returned.
I understand that I am making a donation of work and 100% from its sale to the ACFF.
I understand that no work will be accepted without a completed donation form.

By signing this document I agree to all of the terms described above.

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Sign and date here

Send “Passion” Art work to: Faith Ringgold
Anyone Can Fly Foundation
PO Box 429
Englewood, NJ 07631
(201) 816-1374

To download a printable donation form click the link below.
Then look for and click the "download file" button.
“Printable Artist Donation Form”