Augusta Savage

Harlem Renaissance sculptor who served as an advocate for equal rights. Some of her notable works are called Gamin, W.E.B. Dubois, and Lift Every Voice and Sing.She was the first African-American accepted into the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1934.Jacob Lawrence was a student of hers at the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts.

She had early success molding clay structures at a booth at the Palm Beach County Fair in Florida, earning the substantial amount of $175 for her work.

She was very briefly married to James Savage before marrying Robert Lincoln Poston in 1923.

Sculptor Augusta Savage were born on Monday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 59 days until Augusta Savage next birthday.

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