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Blackside: I'll Make Me a World
Questions: Dr. Jeff Donaldson
9/16/97, page 2

12. We've read that Mrs. Brady was partially responsible for having Augusta Savage replaced as director of the Harlem Community Art Center? Is this accurate?

13. How did Augusta Savage come up with the idea for "The Harp"? When did she decide to leave the Harlem Community Art Center to focus on the commission?

14. How did Jacob Lawrence's "Toussaint L'Ouverture" series come to have its own room at the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit of African-American artists' work? How was it received?

15. Have other artistic disciplines, like music or dance or literature, influenced your work? How?

16. How hard it is to balance an artistic career with a teaching career?