Tammi is my mother! I've never seen someone so passionate and hardworking in making sure Augusta Savage's work is seen, her story is heard, and her legacy lives on!
God bless her. She has most certainly enlightened my understanding of the Arts. Having seen Jacob Lawrence's work in person and in admiration. Now I know there would likely be no Jacob Lawrence without an Augusta Savage. Another great American Artist who wasn't taught in my High School art classes. This is the first I heard of her!
Tell your mom Thank you for the beautiful gift of knowledge. I collect heritage stamps every year and saw Ms. Savage picture so did my research. May you and your mom stay blessed.
I was lucky enough to have been the illustrator of the children’s book on Augusta Savage: “In Her Hands, The Story of Augusta Savage”, written by Alan Schoeder. It was a wonderful experience, and was picked up by the Smithsonian, as well as the Children’s Notable 2009. At the time of publication, we hoped that the election of Obama would help with sales We are on Amazon and still in the second printing. Love seeing that she has not been forgotten! JaeMe Bereal
What a marvelous woman of great intellect, talent, and perseverance. Thank you PBS for sharing this video. I'm grateful for the introduction to Miss Augusta. I'm hoping to find a biography where I can learn more about her life next.
I saw her work in passing when I was a teenager, and again, when I was 44. Now, coming across this documentary has been such a joy. As a black artist, this has greatly inspired me to keep working to improve my gift. Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
This was an exceptional story and left me wanting to know more about her life. It’s truly sad but not surprising that our history and presence continues to be erased to retrofit the false narrative that we haven’t created, invented or contributed!
I learned about her at Morehouse. It was fascinating and so sad how much of her work has been discarded and lost to history: particularly “Lift Every Voice And Sing”. It’s an artistic catastrophe for such a storied and important work.
August's last statement has certianly not only materialize, but has flourished thought out time, and will for all time. Marvelous, simply Marvelous woman in all.
Great! Remember seeing “Le Gamin” bust in an art book we had on the shelf but didn’t know all about her until much later. Augusta was a freedom fighter and so feared but revered. God bless this powerful woman! 🎨🌚🌝
Narrated by art historian and curator Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. (traveling exhibit and book, Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman), with Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is the New Black; The Glorias, The Equalizer) providing dramatic readings of the words of Augusta Savage
Augusta Savage was exceptionally talented and brilliant. I could see the struggles involved with being accepted as a black artist and she did it anyway. That takes a lot of strength along with maintaining a balance of Art and business. She succeeded. I'm going to visit Saugerties soon
I loved this piece. She has always been a mystery to me mainly because there just wasn’t a lot of information about her readily available. I long for more of her personal life info. I find inspiration in knowing how artist tick, where they come from, how they were inspired to keep going. Brava for this work.
Her second husband was apart of Marcus Garvey’s organization. His name was Robert Lincoln Poston. His brother Theodore R. Poston was the 1st Black reporter for the New York Post.
I tried to share the link to this video to the Saugerties Village group on Facebook and Facebook declined to post it stating that the video contains content that "other people on Facebook have reported as abusive". I'd love to know what offended anyone about this great little doc about an historically important artist who also worked and resided for a while in our town.
Thank you so very much for bringing this beautiful artist and her beautiful work of art to the forefront. I’m very inspired just to learn about who she was and her powerful messages in her art ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you for sharing this information. It is an eye opening, educational, excellent presentation. Thank you again. I will share it with my Italian students here in Brescia, Italy…..hopefully they’ll be inspired…..
Thank you! The New York Historical Society in 2019 had a retrospective exhibit of her work. Many of her artworks were there that I had seen in books but not in person. I was actually surprised to see that one of her artworks was on loan from Spelman College (a HBCU in Atlanta, GA 22:07 ) from their permanent collection. I had no idea about her home in upstate New York. Thanks for the thorough exploration of her life!
Love her work and attitude re: her legacyoving forward through students she taught. I lam also a black female artist livi here in Hudson Valley. I knew about the yellow house she lived and worked in Saugerties was going to be turned into a museum 5 yrs ago. Looking forward to going now that it's open. Btw there is a gallery at U Mass, Amherst, named after her. Thanks for this great documentary about her life.❤🌹
I have never heard of her in ANY art history course I’ve taken. I greatly appreciate all of the incredibly hardwork and dedication to keeping Ms. Savage’s name, art, and contributions to the art world thru education and exhibition opportunities ALIVE. She truly is an inspiration for us going forward.
I want think young lady for presentation. Great job. This was an informative video. I heard of her as a teenager. She should be honored more but it is up to us. Spread this among our children grandchildren and etc. Because they want teach black history in our schools. We as relatives and others should not wait for schools to do this. Because they want. We need to start at home churches or anyway we can. Thank you PBS
OMG! I'm only 2 min and already i want to throw my laptop across the room!! they DISMANTLED and DISCARDED this BEAUTIFUL sculpture??! Edit: whew I'm glad I made it through. 15:23 Sadly makes sense she didn't have the resources to preserve her work🥺 i would LOVE the opportunity to participate in an artist residency in August Savage's studio! That's sounds like such an amazing way to keep the space living and inspiring creativity ❤🖤💚
It's really heartbreaking that her school which was originally given a grant by the Carnegie Foundation could not continue to receive some kind of funding during the Depression . The fact that she had to turn down 60 people from joining the school with and only 6 weeks echoes what she said about the huge need for her school in that community . And it's also heartbreaking about her gallery folding in such a short amount of time . Makes me so sad for her that this caused her to cry and say that they weren't ready for her yet . I believe it was lack of proper public relations ... not her fault of course . It's just that there were some well off potential patrons who I believe would have helped if they had known of her struggles to keep these two vital venues open . Really truly a pity 😢
I've never been the slightest bit interested in art but I AM interested in people & their history. I'd love to see a full length documentary on Savage!♥
A search comes up with lots of information. Assuming " Narrated by art historian and curator Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. (traveling exhibit and book, Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman), with Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is the New Black; The Glorias, The Equalizer) providing dramatic readings of the words of Augusta Savage" is connected...
What are you talking about? I'm a Black woman artist and independent curator. Still today in 2024, the majority of contemporary artwork in galleries and museums is by men - specifically white men.
Hotep. It's a Shame on how they did her? She left her position at some institution. To pursue This campaign And we see completed her Taski wanted to return back to where she was working at. She was denied. This is America!! Some years ago, in the 80s, there was a carpet store. They had a head sculpture. of one of our people and looking at the work I see here, men. I wish I had gone in there and got tha before the carpet store closed. Here in philadelphia. 🔥🎯💯🦋
