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Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. #harlem
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In 1937, she was a graduate of Cooper Union and studied and exhibited in Paris, received commissions for busts of W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey, and founded the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts in New York, one of the centers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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She was the director of the WPA-funded Harlem Community Arts Center in 1937 when she received a commission for a piece from the World’s Fair board, the only Black woman to receive that honor.
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Savage became the only Black artist commissioned for an exhibit for the 1939 World’s Fair in Flushing, NY. She created a tribute to her friend, former NAACP head and poet, James Weldon Johnson, who had composed the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
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