Augusta Savage was a sculptor and arts educator, and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. She founded the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts in Harlem, where she mentored and inspired many well-known Harlem Renaissance artists including Ernest Crichlow and Jacob Lawrence.
Like her monumental work, Savage’s story was almost lost to history. “The Harp” was created for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The design was inspired by James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black National Anthem. Viewed by more than five million people, Savage’s sculpture was destroyed during the cleanup after the fair ended.
American Masters Shorts‘ documentary, Searching for Augusta Savage, recently premiered on PBS. The filmmakers said they “‘wanted to investigate why evidence of Savage’s accomplishments and her work appear to be erased. We wanted to know how someone so accomplished, so enterprising and so celebrated during her lifetime, could be missing from the annals of American history and the museum landscape.”
Monumental Women has launched a campaign to recreate “The Harp.” For more information, go here.
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Good Job Faye!
Another Great Sculptor’s work lost to HERSTORY…Check out EDMONIA LEWIS ,
Afro American/ Native American, when to ITALY to find Peace from Racism!
Created DEATH OF CLEOPATRA for the CENTENNIAL Held here in Philadelphia…3,000 lb. sculpture , did not sell afterward. Years later found in some backroom of some department storeroom with Christmas Decorations!!
It’s Women ‘s HERSTORY MONTH, we Must tell OUR Stories!