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 ...

While flipping through the app Flipboard this morning, I ran across a story in my “Black History” news category that really caught my attention. Author Keisha N. Blain, a historian and writer ...

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 ...

"Gamin" is a painted plaster piece and "Diving Boy" is a bronze work, both by Augusta Savage, a Green Cove Springs native associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement. They were last displayed ...

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 was born on February 29, 1892 in Green Cove Springs, Florida. As a child, Augusta would make small clay figures, especially birds and small animals. Savage was given an award for a ...

The Augusta Savage Mentoring Center is offering a Summer Art Class from July 1 to July 16, led by instructor Johnny Mathis, and will take place on Mondays and Tuesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 ...

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 ...

FOX45 learned City Council President Nick Mosby will be participating in the hearing about Augusta Fells Savage. The hearing was sparked by a Project Baltimore investigation. Mosby said the ...

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 ...

The Harp: In 1937, Augusta Savage, the director of the Harlem Community Art Center and the Harlem Renaissance's leading sculptor, received the commission of a lifetime – to create a piece for ...