The Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts (AFSIVA) is a small U.S. public high school located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school is named after Augusta Fells Savage, a famous African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. It was opened in 2004 and graduated its first class in 2007.
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Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
And all their botany is Latin names.
The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
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