Colby acquired Faith Ringgold’s Underground Railroad story quilt

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Jasmine Liu reported for Hyperallergic in March 2022 that the Colby College Museum of Art had acquired Faith Ringgold’s Coming to Jones Road #4: Under A Blood Red Sky, made in 2000. Combining painted imagery and written narrative, the quilt follows people escaping enslavement through the Underground Railroad. The acquisition brought an important example of Ringgold’s storytelling practice into Colby’s collection,.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Jasmine Liu. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.