Faith Ringgold obituary

Artist whose paintings, textiles and sculpture aimed to depict ‘everything happening in America’ amid the tumult of the 1960sOn a damp night in November 1970, Faith Ringgold, who has died aged 93, was locking the doors to an exhibition at the Judson Memorial church in Greenwich Village, when four strangers turned up pleading to see the show of flags she and several other radical artists of the downtown New York scene were staging. After a brief look at her painting, Flag for the Moon