Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL)

When Art Strike and the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) were organising the Liberated Venice Biennale in 1970 to protest against the US bombing of Cambodia and institutionalised racism and sexism, black and women artists were not originally included. Consequently, Faith Ringgold and her daughters Michele and Barbara Wallace, together with Tom Lloyd, formed Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL) to counter the identity biases and assumptions of their mainly male AWC comrades. The group organised exhibitions, protested against art-world exclusions, and collaborated with the Ad Hoc Women Artists’ Committee.