October 18, 2023
Faith Ringgold’s art took center stage as part of a capstone concert in April.
The celebration of the Englewood artist and activist included musical and stage performances, an oral history project and a children’s reading room/makerspace where parents could accompany their children to hear stories from Ringgold’s 17 books and create artwork inspired by what they have seen and heard.
Grammy-nominated composer Rufus Reid, who has recorded on more than 500 albums and received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, created a new work with four movements for the “With Faith, Coming to Jones Road” culminating event in April. Professors Christine Eubank, Ph.D., and Leigh Jonaitis, Ph.D., led the development of the verbatim theatre performance that offered a window into the origin stories of ancestor journeys to Bergen County alongside Reid’s…
