Leo Twiggs | S.C. Hall of Fame

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 the Verner Award (Governor’s Trophy) for outstanding contributions to the arts in South Carolina.

Standards

• VA.C Connecting - I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
  • VA.C.6 I can identify and examine the role of visual arts through history and world cultures.
    • VA.C IH.6 I can research and revise my work by applying visual arts concepts and characteristics from a cultural or historical time period.
      • VA.C IH.6.1 I can make changes to my artwork using characteristics from a culture or time period.
• VA.C Connecting - I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
  • VA.C.6 I can identify and examine the role of visual arts through history and world cultures.
    • VA.C AH.6 I can analyze the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society and how they impact an artist's’ work.
• VA.C Connecting - I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
  • VA.C.6 I can identify and examine the role of visual arts through history and world cultures.
    • VA.C AL.6 I can analyze the function and meaning of artworks from various cultures and time periods.
• 1 Literacy Skills for Social Studies
  • 1.6 Analyze, interpret, and synthesize social studies information to make inferences and draw conclusions.
• 1 Literacy Skills for Social Studies
  • 1.11 Explain how political, social, and economic institutions are similar or different across time and/or throughout the world.

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