Searching for Augusta Savage
Schedule
Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
RBA Creative (3718 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA) | Oakland, CA
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Join the Black Women’s Art Collective, EVOAK! and RBA Creative for an afternoon of film, conversation, and community at ArtistSpeak!, a public forum on the arts and contemporary issues. This month we’ll be presenting a screening of Searching for Augusta Savage, a 24-minute documentary produced by Audacious Women Productions, on the groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance artist that investigates why and the larger question of how history decides whose legacy gets preserved.The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with educator and resident expert Carol Belle Thomas Moss.
Saturday, May 30 · 2:00 PM
Augusta Savage was a titan of the Harlem Renaissance — a sculptor, educator, and fierce advocate who opened the first U.S. gallery dedicated to Black art and mentored a generation of artists who would shape American culture. And yet, nearly half of the approximately 160 works she created are lost or missing today.
The film, produced by @AudaciousWomen, is narrated by art historian Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. and featuring dramatic readings by award-winning actress Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is the New Black, The Equalizer), the film premiered on PBS American Masters Shorts in February 2024 and has since screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Schomburg Center, and beyond.
After the screening, we'll go deeper with Carol Belle Thomas Moss, whose expertise in Black women in film, literature, and the creative arts will ground our conversation in the broader context of erasure, representation, and artistic legacy.
Carol Belle-Thomas Moss is a lifelong San Franciscan educator, and cultural advocate whose career has woven together higher education, and Blacks in the arts across five decades. A graduate of San Francisco State University with both a BA and MA, she dedicated 43 years to City College of San Francisco — serving as a Media Specialist and Instructor while teaching the landmark course Black Women in Film, Literature and the Creative Arts, and building a library collection centered on cultural production in the Black community. She continues to bring her expertise to public audiences as a docent at San Francisco's de Young Museum, where she focuses on Black art.
ArtistSpeak! is an ongoing series of conversations connecting art to the issues that matter most to our communities.
The Black Women’s Art Collective is a group of fine artists housed in a gallery and studio in Oakland, CA run by RBA Creative and its nonprofit affiliate, EVOAK!
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Carol Belle-Thomas Moss
RBA Creative
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