Join the Boynton Beach Historical Society' s free presentation on Monday, February 28, 2022 @ 7-8pm EST via Zoom. Send a request to join to BBHSPrograms@gmail.com and we will send you the invitation.
Professor Janet Naughton, immediate past president of the Boynton Beach Historical Society, is an author, historian, librarian, researcher, and professor at Palm Beach State College will present From West Palm Beach to Harlem. Augusta Savage: Sculptor & Civil Rights Activist
Born in Green Cove Springs, Florida, artist Augusta Savage developed her talent in West Palm Beach. Her first big break came when her mentor, Palm Beach County Fair superintendent, George Graham Currie, invited her to exhibit her works, breaking both color and gender barriers. She made her way to New York in the early 1920s, and graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art.
Ms. Savage became an accomplished sculptor in the 1920s and a core figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Savage as an artist is best known for The Harp, a sculpture commissioned for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. She originally called her piece Lift Every Voice and Sing – modeled to homage the poem penned by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson.
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