Hands of Inge

The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist Hardison is perhaps best known for Negro Giants in History her important series of busts made during the early 1960s Hands of Inge was edited by Hortense Tee Beveridge a pioneer in her field who worked in the commercial industry and on independent noncommercial films such as Amiri Barakas 1968 film The NewArk In the mid1950s Beveridge became the first Black woman to gain admission to Local 771 the motion picture editors union