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At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. Ms Ringgold is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego where she taught art from 1984 until 2002. MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Tar Beach (New York: Crown Publishers, 1991).If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations). Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series) (1988), acrylic on canvas, bordered with printed, painted, quilted, and pieced cloth Faith Ringgold. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.”Ĭassie might as well be Peter Pan, but his flights above the rooftops of London never included a picnic on tar beach. All you need is somewhere to go that you can’t get to any other way. Cassie says, “I have told him it’s very easy, anyone can fly. When she encourages Be Be to join her, he does. Her flight symbolizes the freedom of youth and the ability to overcome the nagging harshness of racism and the confines of big city living. Paperback Picture Book, December 3, 1996. While the food is set out, Cassie flies, like Peter Pan, above the rooftops leaving the others below. But Tar Beach won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and a Caldecott Honor Book for 1992. Some critics accused Ringgold of stereotyping because she had watermelon.
The family’s rooftop meal includes roasted peanuts, fried chicken, and watermelon. If there is a breeze, searching for it takes them to the open night sky. For those unfamiliar with the term, tar beach is what New Yorkers refer to as a place for picnicking, sunbathing, or sleeping on a rooftop-escaping sultry apartments on hot summer nights. When Cassie Lightfoot flies over the rooftops of Harlem, the lights of the George Washington Bridge glow against the black sky like pearls. Ringgold’s tapestry Tar Beach (1988) and her children’s story Tar Beach (1991) portray a classic urban rooftop picnic.
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