“I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since.”

—  Augusta Savage

On the trajectory of her life and career in “Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students” https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/740459875/sculptor-augusta-savage-said-her-legacy-was-the-work-of-her-students in NPR (2019 Jul 15)

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