[1] Sallée was also awarded the Gund Scholarship for Bertha, a portrait of a Karamu House dancer, which helped facilitate his fifth year of study at the Cleveland School of Art.
[8] The exact dates time of Sallée's graduations from Cleveland School of Art and Adelbert college of Western Reserve University are unclear.
[3] Sallée himself was mentored at Karamu House by Richard Beatty, head of the studio department and a printmaking instructor, along with other notable Cleveland artists such as Elmer Brown and Hughie-Lee Smith.
[9] Lee-Smith and Sallée joined the WPA printmaking project at Karamu House with Zell Ingram and Fred Carlo.
[3] One of Sallée's murals that has since been destroyed was at the Portland Outhwaite Homes; it depicted the hopes of African-American families migrating to Cleveland.
[12] Like some of his peers at Karamu House, Sallée tended to create empathetic representations of African-Americans,[12] and his portrayal of the community in moments of leisure has a celebratory quality to it.
[15] Military and career as an interior designer During World War II Sallée was sent to England by the Army Corps of Engineers.
He converted the space into the Tijuana nightclub where he created a revolving stage for acts such as Nat “King” Cole to perform on.
[16] Sallée was also commissioned to design the Grand Ballroom and the Brasserie Restaurant at Stouffer's Inn on the Square (now the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel).