Kudos: Carl Glickman, Leo Twiggs receive honors
Glickman honored by Colby College
Longtime faculty member Carl Glickman, whose pioneering work in education during the civil rights era continues to inform his classes today, was recently honored by his alma mater.
Glickman received the Outstanding Educator Award from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, during the annual Colby Alumni Reunion in June. He graduated from the school in 1968.
An emeritus professor of education in the College of Education, Glickman’s decades-long career includes time as a teacher during school desegregation in the South, then leading an award-winning school in New Hampshire. He has taught at UGA for more than two decades, retiring once to pursue creative writing; he has more than a dozen books to his name, including a book of short fiction and memoir essays. More recently, he returned to teaching and now leads a graduate-level seminar each spring semester.
Colby’s Alumni Association “is pleased to recognize Carl Glickman, a true pioneer in education renewal and school leadership.”
Read more about Colby’s 2018 Alumni Awards.
Alumnus’ batik paintings garner prestigious 1858 Prize
Long considered a revolutionary in the art world for his envelope-pushing batik paintings, Leo Twiggs, South Carolina artist and alumnus of the University of Georgia College of Education, now has one more accolade to his name: the prestigious Society 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
The Gibbes Museum of Art and its member auxiliary group Society 1858 named Twiggs the winner on Monday when it announced the results of its annual juried competition. The prize includes $10,000 for the artist who “demonstrates the highest level of artistic achievement in any media, while contributing to a new understanding of art in the South.” Twiggs was one of nearly 250 artists who applied.
Twiggs, 84, is notable in UGA’s history as the first African-American to receive a doctorate in art education; he graduated from the UGA College of Education in 1970. As an art educator, he helped create the art department at South Carolina State University and later was instrumental in opening the I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium on the university’s campus.