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From Britannica online: Faith Ringgold, née Faith Willi Jones, became famous for innovative quilted narrations that communicate her political beliefs. . . . Jones grew up in New York City’s Harlem, and while still in high school she decided to be an artist. She attended City College of New York, where she received a degree in fine arts and education (1955) and an M.A. in fine arts (1959). In the mid-1950s Jones started teaching art in New York public schools, a job she held until the 1970s. After Jones married her second husband, Burdette Ringgold, in 1962, she began using his name professionally. By the 1960s Ringgold’s work had matured, reflecting her burgeoning political consciousness, study of African arts and history, and appreciation for the freedom of form used by her young students. She began a body of paintings in 1963 called the American People series, which portrays the civil rights movement from a female perspective. One of the best-known and perhaps most unsettling is American People #20: Die (1967), a bold representation of contemporary race riots. Inspired by Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937), the mural presents a tangle of Black and white bodies, their doll-like eyes wide in terror, and their heads and matching attire bloodied. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City acquired the work in 2016 and caused a stir three years later when it placed the painting near Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) in an effort to diversify the presentation of its collection. . . ." From Getty ULAN: Faith Ringgold is an African-American artist born in New York City. She was educated at the City College of New York. She uses a technique of painting she calls "black-light painting," which favors intensity over value to achieve contrast between light and dark.