Faith Ringgold was an African-american artist created the fiber work tar beach as an autobiographical work about her own experiences growing up in New York.
Faith Ringgold is an artist and she was best known for her narrative quilts, Tar beach is one of her most famous story quilts. She was born in New York City in 1930. and when she was working in public schools as an art teacher she began a series of paintings which was called as American People.