The pioneering visible artist Religion Ringgold, whose physique of labor spanned work, sculptures, efficiency artwork, and extensively celebrated story quilts, died this week at 93. All through her profession, Ringgold was recognized not just for her artistic output, but in addition her dedication to Black liberation, feminism, the Artwork Employees Coalition (the group that finally satisfied MoMA and different museums to institute a free-admission day), and a number of different activist teams and causes.

“No different artistic subject is as closed to those that should not white and male as is the visible arts,” Ringgold as soon as mentioned. “After I made a decision to be an artist, the very first thing that I needed to imagine was that I, a Black girl, may penetrate the artwork scene, and that, additional, I may accomplish that with out sacrificing one iota of my Blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.” That refusal to sacrifice her core id was a serious a part of what made Ringgold such an iconoclast.

In honor of her life, we’ve gathered 5 of her most vital artworks—together with particulars about the place to see them in particular person.

The Civil Rights Triangle, 1963 (from the American Individuals Collection, at present on the Glenstone Museum in Maryland)