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: 24 She also learned how to sew and work creatively with fabric from her mother. : 28 Because of her chronic asthma, Ringgold explored visual art as a major pastime through the support of her mother, often experimenting with crayons as a young girl. : 27 Her childhood friend, Sonny Rollins, who would grow up to be a prominent jazz musician, often visited her family and practiced saxophone at their parties. After the Harlem Renaissance, Ringgold's childhood home in Harlem became surrounded by a thriving arts scene – where figures such as Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes lived just around the corner.
They raised her in an environment that encouraged her creativity. Ringgold's mother was a fashion designer and her father, as well as working a range of jobs, was an avid storyteller. : 24 Her parents, Andrew Louis Jones and Willi Posey Jones, were descendants of working-class families displaced by the Great Migration.
Faith Ringgold was born the youngest of three children on October 8, 1930, in Harlem Hospital, New York City.
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