Augusta Savage
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Nov 3, 2026
Uli BaerHOST
Like, you know.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Augusta Savage and.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Jessie
Uli BaerHOST
Fawcett will
Uli BaerHOST
Like, you know.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Augusta Savage and.
Anne FernaldGUEST
Jessie Fawcett will
Uli BaerHOST
be part of this.
David GreavesGUEST
And Louise Patterson, of course, said, hey, we haven't spoken about the women.
David GreavesGUEST
So she sort of keyed off that conversation with a writer, Ernest Critchlow, who was a young man, 13 at the time, and had gone up to the home of Augusta Savage.
Ernest CritchlowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I lived in Brooklyn.
Ernest CritchlowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And while all this was going on, I was far removed on the other side of the bridge.
Ernest CritchlowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The room where the coal was, and then turning around a corner, and I opened the door in the cellar.
Ernest CritchlowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
and it was like heaven.
Ernest CritchlowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I opened the door and there was books on it, bookshelves, paintings, and the most fascinating thing was that there was Augusta Savage in the basement, my queen, on a model stand, and Robert Pius was painting a picture.
Ernest CritchlowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now this to me was, you know, if you talk about an artist getting heaven, not only was I meeting her, but I was seeing an artist actually paint.
Uli BaerHOST
Like, you know.
Uli BaerHOST
Augusta Savage and.
Uli BaerHOST
Jessie Fawcett will be part of this.
Uli BaerHOST
But usually you hear about Baldwin, you know, Richard Wright, sort of all these people.
Amber WileyUNKNOWN
Okay.
Amber WileyUNKNOWN
Because it also made me think about folks like Elizabeth Catlett and Augusta Savage and like all the black artists who are also teachers.
Amber WileyUNKNOWN
And whether or not, one, okay, so yes, it was an economic thing, but two, that they see it also as a political venture.
Amber WileyUNKNOWN
Okay.
Eric NewmanHOST
Yeah.
Eric NewmanHOST
Yeah, the, there was this story about Augusta Savage-
Liani GreavesGUEST
Yeah
Eric NewmanHOST
...
David GreavesGUEST
Um, yes.
Alison StewartHOST
They spoke a lot about people who were no longer there in 1972, uh, Augusta Savage, the artist, and Countee Cullen, the poet and novelist.
Alison StewartHOST
Um, this is a little bit of an out there question, but who would you have liked to have seen in the room, who could be in the room, who passed away?
Liani GreavesGUEST
I, I-
Liani GreavesGUEST
Yeah
Matt CareyHOST
... also Augusta Savage-
Liani GreavesGUEST
Augusta Savage
Matt CareyHOST
...
Tanisha FordGUEST
As I mentioned, she comes from a very working-class family, and she's found herself on this journey, an odyssey, if you will, around the world and meeting all kinds of amazing people, people we consider luminaries today.
Tanisha FordGUEST
But it really started because of the Harlem Community Art Center, which was a center established by famed sculptor Augusta Savage.
Tanisha FordGUEST
and was largely funded by the WPA.
Tanisha FordGUEST
It was one of their community art centers, part of their art center program.
Tanisha FordGUEST
And Augusta Savage really launches it, and then Gwendolyn Bennett, another Black woman arts educator, takes the helm.
Tanisha FordGUEST
And this is a center that has support of various Black artists of the day, including people like...
Tanisha FordGUEST
Romare Bearden, who's on the teaching faculty there, Aaron Douglas, another famed Harlem Renaissance painter, Selma Burke, Selma Day, Langston Hughes even drops in to teach some courses.