The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling is currently open for special events and by appointment while we address critical facilities repairs.

Regular programming will resume in September when exhibitions in our Legacy and Salon Galleries honoring the legacy of Faith Ringgold will remain on view through 2026.

LEGACY GALLERY

Faith Ringgold: Artist, Storyteller, Activist

Artist, writer, educator and activist Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem, not far from the Sugar Hill Museum. It was here that she had her first art studio, became an art teacher and began to raise her own family. Her love for the children of Harlem inspired Broadway Housing Communities to create the museum.

In 2007, Faith illustrated eight scenes from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham City Jail, presented here, along with material from Faith’s archives, including facsimiles of working drawings that help us see what she thought about as she produced these images. Digital reproductions of the working manuscripts of two of her children’s books, My Dream of MLK and If A Bus Could Talk are also available on tablets. The work on view celebrates Faith’s love for storytelling and her commitment to activism, and inspires us to consider what we can do to create a more just world.

SALON GALLERY

Freedom Tales

Over the course of her long career as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, textile artist, activist and educator, Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) published 16 illustrated children’s books that tell often difficult stories of important people, ideas and histories. Faith Ringgold: Freedom Tales features original paintings for two of those books, Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky and Harlem Renaissance Party. Both works reach across time and space to celebrate courage and freedom, inspiring children and adults for generations to come.

Artwork Courtesy of Collection of Barbara F. Wallace

LIVING ROOM