two skateboard decks
each: 31 h. x 8 w. x 0.5" d.
7-ply Canadian maple wood
wall mounts included
object description
These skate decks are based off Faith Ringgold's iconic work Woman Freedom Now (1971). Ringgold's series of posters were created to be distributed at public meetings and displayed at spontaneous protests during the early 1970s. The design for the poster is linked to the composition of paintings in Ringgold’s Black Light Series #11: US American Black (1969).
Woman Freedom Now features the colors red, black, and green as a means to represent the Pan-African or Black Liberation Flag. The numbers on the artwork, 6/71, indicate the month and year the work was created, June 1971.
These skate decks come as a collaboration between our partners at MoMA and Harlem native artist Faith Ringgold.