“I remember my professor showing slides of Augusta Savage,” Dr. Hayes said, “and then we just kind of moved on.” Dr. Hayes, though, was struck by this story of a resilient Black woman ...

Celebrating the renowned artist with a comic about her life and work Howard Kaplan The cover of the comic "Augusta Savage: My Monument Will Be in Their Work." Illustration by Oliver Stephenson An ...

then my monument will be in their work,” Savage is quoted as saying. “No one could ask for more than that.” Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman is on view at the Cummer Museum of Art and ...

Few sculptures by Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta ... Savage was born 1892 in Green Cove Springs, Florida. She yearned to be an artist early on, but her father, a poor minister, disapproved ...

Born on Feb. 29, 1892, Savage once said, "I was a Leap Year baby, and it... Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students Sculptor Augusta Savage once said: "I was a Leap ...

Augusta Savage rose to prominence as a sculptor ... especially in a space named after the famed sculptor. Savage “was one of my heroes,” said Valdes. “I’m a woman, I’m a sculptor ...

Clay County and the City of Green Cove Springs unveil a Historical Marker of Augusta Savage, a world renowned sculptor, teacher, and civil rights activist close to her childhood home at 1105 ...

The most famous piece by the American sculptor Augusta Savage is a larger-than-life-size cast-plaster chorus, in the shape of a harp, made for the 1939 World’s Fair. No attraction that year was ...