​Augusta Savage

(born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.[2] She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.
Augusta began making figures as a child, mostly small animals out of the natural red clay of her hometown.[2] Her father was a poor Methodist minister who strongly opposed his daughter's early interest in art. "My father kicked me four or five times a week," Savage once recalled, "and almost whipped all the art out of me."[5] This was because he believed her sculpture to be a sinful practice, due to his interpretation of the "graven images" portion of the Bible.[6] She persevered, and the principal of her new high school in West Palm Beach.

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