Frederick E. Hart Foundation for Educational Opportunity

11/03/2025

From sculptor Mikael F. Sogoian: "Regarding something important! Today is one of those days that I always remember with sadness and deep gratitude. On November 3rd, my teacher and mentor from my years in the United States was born. He was a truly great man, a creator, and a philosopher of the chisel. We worked together for only 3 years. He passed away in 1999, but the legacy he left behind is a world heritage of high art. Thank you, my friend and teacher, for being in my life. Frederick Hart (1943-1999)."

10/01/2024

This morning, in honor of former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday:🌲 A tree will be planted next to Frederick Hart’s sculpture of Jimmy Carter 🌳

In honor of former President Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, Trees Atlanta will plant 100 trees at The Carter Center, plus one more at another symbolic location.

02/20/2023

02/23/2022

10/01/2021

Jimmy Carter is 97 years old today. Happy birthday, Jimmy Carter!

04/24/2021

Happy International Sculpture Day!

People across the country are being encouraged to visit sculpture in their localities today as part of International Sculpture Day.

03/02/2021

How my father played a small part in a big moment in civil rights history…

11/11/2020

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"The veterans who served in Vietnam were as diverse as the nation they represented. This statue is a symbol of their courage and devotion to their country."

– Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

11/03/2020

Happy Birthday to sculptor Frederick E. Hart, born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on November 3, 1943.

A sculptor of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Hart is most famous for the statues he created for Washington National Cathedral and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

11/02/2020

On June 27, 1905, Ruby Middleton Forsythe was born in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1921, she earned her education certificate from the Avery Institute, and then went on to earn a BS degree from South Carolina State College.

In 1938, she and her husband moved to Pawley's Island, South Carolina, where she began teaching in a one-room school, the only educational facility open to African-American children at the time. Over six decades, and much of the Jim Crow era, “Miss Ruby” — as she was affectionately known to her students — taught generation after generation of local boys and girls.

Not far away, Hart grew up at his mother's family home in Conway, South Carolina. Shortly after hearing of her death in 1992, he created and donated a bas-relief portrait of Miss Ruby, a memorial tribute in honor the impact she had on so many young people’s lives as an educator.

Ruby Middleton Forsythe, also known as “Miss Ruby” (photo by Brian Lanker), and the Ruby Middleton Forsythe Memorial Plaque by Frederick Hart: