SCREENING OF SEARCHING FOR AUGUSTA SAVAGE: MARCH ON FESTIVAL

Sandra Rattley has over 40 years experience leading and launching multimedia projects. She was executive producer, director and writer of Searching for Augusta Savage, a 23-minute documentary about the prolific sculptor, who was one of the most influential contributors to the Harlem Renaissance and a leading artist in the U.S., the lead film for a new PBS series, “American Masters Shorts.” Rattley was also executive producer, director and writer for Unladylike2020, an animated documentary series about unsung women who changed America over a hundred years ago, which premiered on PBS’s biography series American Masters timed to the centennial of women’s suffrage and has attracted over 6 million viewers. With Charlotte Mangin, she is co-founder of Audacious Women Productions. 

She was senior story editor of the Spotify podcast series The Sum of Us, hosted by author Heather McGee. Rattley was also executive producer of seminal documentary projects including the Peabody Award winning series Wade in the Water about African American sacred music, produced by NPR and the Smithsonian Institution, and Making the Music, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, produced for NPR and PBS. Rattley served as executive producer for TV and video at the non-profit journalism organization Futuro Media, where she launched the PBS series America By The Numbers, covering underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and NBCNews.com’s Humanizing America, profiling the diversity of the American electorate. Rattley is the former VP for Cultural Programming at NPR where she launched the weekly show, Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, as well as NPR’s office of civic engagement. She serves as creative consultant for Black Public Media’s 360 Incubator, a mentorship program for African American media makers. Rattley also founded, launched and produced the Africa Learning Channel, a Pan-African news and information service, streaming via WorldSpace satellite to over 100 million listeners in 51 African countries.

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, OCT 11 12:00PM-1:30PM

FRIDAY, OCT 11, 1:30PM-2:30PM SCREENING OF SEARCHING FOR AUGUSTA SAVAGE

Augusta Savage was the first person in the U.S. to open a gallery dedicated to African American art. A Harlem Renaissance sculptor and art educator, she was also one of the first Black women art activists of her time and fought for the inclusion of Black artists in the mainstream canon. Art historian Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. explores Savage's legacy, and why her artwork has been largely erased.

Followed by a Talkback with Sandra Rattley, Executive Producer/Director; Moderated by Najee Dorsey, Artist, Founder & CEO, Black Art In America

2:30PM-3:30PM SCREENING OF SEARCHING FOR AUGUSTA SAVAGE

Augusta Savage was the first person in the U.S. to open a gallery dedicated to African American art. A Harlem Renaissance sculptor and art educator, she was also one of the first Black women art activists of her time and fought for the inclusion of Black artists in the mainstream canon. Art historian Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. explores Savage's legacy, and why her artwork has been largely erased.

Followed by a Talkback with Sandra Rattley, Executive Producer/Director; Moderated by Najee Dorsey, Artist, Founder & CEO, Black Art In America

3:30PM-4:30PM SCREENING OF SEARCHING FOR AUGUSTA SAVAGE

Augusta Savage was the first person in the U.S. to open a gallery dedicated to African American art. A Harlem Renaissance sculptor and art educator, she was also one of the first Black women art activists of her time and fought for the inclusion of Black artists in the mainstream canon. Art historian Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. explores Savage's legacy, and why her artwork has been largely erased.

Followed by a Talkback with Sandra Rattley, Executive Producer/Director; Moderated by Najee Dorsey, Artist, Founder & CEO, Black Art In America