Black sculptor’s defiance on display at Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Nearly 50 works of sculpture by Augusta Savage are on display at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens’ exhibition “Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman.” The exhibit, which ends March 22, also includes photographs of Savage's lost works, and pieces by her close contemporaries and students. (Photo courtesy of Dixon Gallery and Gardens)
Art history professor Earnestine Jenkins describes Augusta Savage’s sculptures as a form of resistance to the way black subjects were represented in the last century.
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