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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“But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
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.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)