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Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs

We Have Known Rivers: Masks, Tree, & Moon, 1992 by Leo Twiggs (American, b. 1934). Batik and paint on cotton mounted on board, 40 x 34 inches.
Private Collection. Image © Leo Twiggs.
We Have Known Rivers: Masks, Tree, & Moon, 1992 by Leo Twiggs (American, b. 1934). Batik and paint on cotton mounted on board, 40 x 34 inches.

This week we will be talking with Sara from the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, art historian Frank Martin, and with artist Leo Twiggs about his exhibition at the Gibbes called Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs. At 92 years of age, Leo Twiggs has a perspective on life in South Carolina that covers fundamental changes in our state and our nation. His art is both intensely personal and a commentary of the struggles that both Black and White South Carolinians share.

The show ends May 3rd at the Gibbes and opens at the Florence Museum June 1 for an extended run.

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Dr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.