Sculptor Edmonia Lewis is on the next stamp in the Black Heritage series

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Sculptor¹ Edmonia Lewis is on the next stamp in the Black Heritage series

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The U.S. Postal³ Service is making 19th century sculptor Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis the face of its 45th stamp for the Black Heritage series. The stamp will debut⁴ later this month.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Inside the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., stands a sculpture of polished white stone. "The Death Of Cleopatra" shows the Egyptian queen slumped⁵ on her throne. That image of an iconic woman is the work of Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis, who now gets her own image on a stamp.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

She was from upstate New York, a woman of mixed race with Black and Ojibwe ancestors. Born in the 1840s, when women of color struggled to be heard, she had a talent for publicizing herself. Marilyn Richardson is an art consultant⁶.

MARILYN RICHARDSON: She had an amazing rapport⁷ with the press. And so she was very much known and written about, but purely⁸ on her own terms.

MARTIN: She often changed the details she gave about her own life.

RICHARDSON: That kind of mysterious figure will certainly grab your attention.

MARTIN: Later, some of her work became obscure, like "The Death Of Cleopatra," which...

RICHARDSON: Was a great mystery until I found it (laughter).

INSKEEP: Now her face appears on a stamp as part of the Postal Service's Black History series. Kirsten Pai Buick is at the University of New Mexico.

KIRSTEN PAI BUICK: We often gang women for being ambitious and seeking fame. But that's what she did. She was ambitious. And she wanted to be famous. And I think this is an acknowledgement that would have thrilled her.

INSKEEP: Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis remains⁹ both well and little-known. To this day, nobody is certain of her birthday. Though, she commonly said she was born on the 4th of July.

(SOUNDBITE OF ROBERT GLASPER'S "CANVAS")

1 sculptor   

n.雕刻家，雕刻家

参考例句：

• A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
• The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 postal   

adj.邮政的，邮局的

参考例句：

• A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
• Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。

4 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

5 slumped   

大幅度下降，暴跌( slump的过去式和过去分词 )； 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]

参考例句：

• Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。
• The driver was slumped exhausted over the wheel. 司机伏在方向盘上，疲惫得睡着了。

6 consultant   

n.顾问；会诊医师，专科医生

参考例句：

• He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
• Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。

7 rapport   

n.和睦，意见一致

参考例句：

• She has an excellent rapport with her staff.她跟她职员的关系非常融洽。
• We developed a high degree of trust and a considerable personal rapport.我们发展了高度的互相信任和不错的私人融洽关系。

8 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

9 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。