After experiencing harsh discrimination when applying to the Fontainebleau program in France, the eminent artist Augusta Savage dedicated her life to teaching young African-American intellectuals to strive to achieve their goals and dreams. Prior to her dedication, Savage was successful at a young age and was studying at the Cooper Union College in New York, planning to make her way in during the Harlem Renaissance. Although she was succeeding in her courses, Savage wanted to learn more techniques and become better overall, so she decided to take a big leap in her educational and professional career by applying to a course abroad in France called Fontainebleau. After applying with confidence in herself she waited eagerly for a reply, but when…show more content… Savage’s level of professionalism and efficiency had helped many pursuing artists who had wanted to create art themselves. Artists such as Jacob Lawrence who were taught in the studio were inspired by her technique and used it in many of his artwork. Savage had motivated and moved many lives. Jacob Lawrence had even said, “And this is what I meant when I mentioned a few moments ago the importance that of a person like Augusta Savage played in my life. Because she thought that I should be on the Project at this time. I remember she took me down to try to get me on the Project. And I was a little too young. I think I was about nineteen going on twenty. So I didn't make it that time. But the next year she took me down again. This was something she didn't forget; she took me down to the Project and I was finally accepted on the Project.” Savage also didn’t just stop there with teaching, she had also planned to
