Students in Professor Jordana Saggese's Fall 2022 seminar - Blackness in Relief - curate exhibition for David C. Driskell Center

Ringgold - Saar: Meeting on the Matrix is the first-ever exhibition focusing on prints by both of these two landmark artists

For decades, Faith Ringgold (b. 1930) and Betye Saar (b. 1926) have incorporated printmaking as a vital component of their multidisciplinary practices, yet their mutual connection to printmaking remains underrecognized. RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix highlights the print work of these two landmark artists, providing a window into the material and conceptual explorations at play in their distinct practices. Both artists have uniquely utilized the matrix—the printmaking surface which transfers ink onto paper or fabric—as a site of possibilities for experimentation, storytelling, and activism.