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In episode 81 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews Je\ufb00reen M. Hayes on the Harlem Renaissance pioneer, Augusta Savage!!\n\n*BOOK NEWS!* I have written a book! Order The Story of Art without Men here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Art-without-Men/dp/1529151147/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1647348710&sr=8-1 \n\n[This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!]\n\nOvercoming poverty, racism, and sexual discrimination, Savage is one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century and is famed for her emotionally tender and stoic life-size figures and plaster portrait busts. \n\nRaised in a strict family in Florida with a father who opposed\nher artistic pursuits, she arrived in New York with just $4.60, and in 1922 enrolled at The Cooper Union School of Art. Coming to the fore in\nthe 1920s, Savage mastered emotionally tender and stoic life-size figures and plaster portrait busts (painted with shoe polish for a bronzed effect), and her subjects ranged from dignified everyday Black figures to influential Harlemites, including W. E. B. Du Bois. \n\nWorking with images to elevate Black culture into mainstream America, Savage was also a key community organiser, exhibitor and teacher to so many. Not only did she become the first African American woman in the US to open her own private art gallery, she was also appointed the first director of the Harlem Community Art Center. \n\nAs confirmed by Jeffreen, who has previously said: \u201cI don\u2019t think about Augusta Savage as someone who only made objects \u2026 [but rather as someone who] has really left behind a blueprint of what it means to be an artist that centres humanity.\u201d\n\nENJOY!\n\nFollow us: \nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nSound editing by Nada Smiljanic\nResearch assistant: Viva Ruggi\nArtwork by @thisisaliceskinner\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/