Best known for her story quilts, Harlem artist Faith Ringgold has used art to tell her story of black women's empowerment. Her early work tells the story of growing up in Harlem - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Her work is unflinching in telling the truth about her struggle being a minority within a minority.

Sometimes personal empowerment means creatively imagining her place in art history. In some of her quilts, she situates her alter ego in her beloved Paris at a time before her actual birth in 1930, where she mingles with famous artists and public figures. These are stories that should have taken place if black women had been given their rightful place in the art world.

This presentation will focus especially on her French Collection series which will both challenge and inspire us to tell our own story, even if the truth of empowerment requires some artistic license.

See you Sunday! And please share this event with kindred spirits.

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The Oasis group will be starting a new book on February 11th. It's called:

From the back cover: "A masterful work, Cynthia Bourgeault invites us to follow Jesus' path of self-emptying love, and she describes wisdom practices that we Christians can use every day to transform our own minds so that we too can see with the eyes of Christ." Jim Marion

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