Faith Ringgold is a contemporary artist who combines quilting and painting to create her artwork. She is more well known among Irving students as the author and illustrator of the book "Tar Beach."
The first graders looked at images of Faith Ringgold's quilts and read "Tar Beach," a story about a girl who uses her imagination to pretend she can fly. Using Ringgold's artwork and story as inspiration, the students each created their own "quilts" that each tell a story.
The students used pieces of cut paper to make a patterned quilt boarder around the edge of their paper. In the center of the paper they drew a picture describing where they would fly to if they could go anywhere in the world.
