Grade(s): PreK, Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject(s): Visual & Performing Arts
Year: 2017
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Leo Franklin Twiggs (born 1934 in St. Stephen, South Carolina) is an American batik artist. He taught from 1973 until 1998 at South Carolina State University. He was the first visual artist to receive...
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Glenna Barlow gives a brief overview of the Columbia Museum of Art, its history, and mission.
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Allison Pitre (Meadowfield Elementary School) leads an art lesson on creating poetry in a portrait, which is half of a portrait, containing a poem in the background.
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Shirley Mack Bell (Busbee Creative Arts Academy) leads a lesson on shadow puppetry. Shadow puppetry has origins dating back to China's Song Dynasty.
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The student will be able to explain the connection between poetry and Matisse’s visual imagery and demonstrate that relationship in their own original artwork.Instruction will begin by reading a poem...
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Leo Twiggs has certain recurring themes in his work. Twiggs has a series called the Hurricane Hugo series. Twiggs states, "The hurricane series became more than just a series about the wind. When I...
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Jonathan Green is an academically trained painter, meaning he was trained in art schools to paint in the Western European techniques and subjects. Leo Twiggs is also an academically trained artist...