A filled and informative TAEA Conference Proposal form from 1995, detailing the presenter's insights and contributions to the conference. This document provides a snapshot of the proposed presentation, the presenter's background, and key details shaping the educational discourse at the Texas Art Education Association conference in 1995.

A review and routing form submitted by North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to the Texas Commission on the Arts requesting funding from September 1, 1999 to August 31, 2000. The following webpage have been printed from the TCA website as sensitive organization information had been filled out during application process.

A detailed letter that illuminates the dynamic ideas and strategic approaches discussed for advocacy efforts with school board members and legislators.

An official letter from Larry Gleeson addressed to Bill McCarter, Nancy Berry, and all Marcus Fellows, discussing the considerations and scheduling details for the upcoming Authorware class in 1998.

A compelling letter penned by an aspiring applicant, addressed to the Director of the Graduate Program at the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas (UNT). The letter intricately weaves the applicant's educational journey, qualifications, and a genuine expression of interest in undertaking a Master's Degree in Art Education at UN

A cover sheet for an 11-page fax transmission sent to Julie Abel by R. William McCarter and D. Jack Davis on May 7, 1990. Additional 10 pages are missing.

An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the upcoming collections and events at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. It is titled Little Journeys and has information about tours and group visits.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about school children who will get a chance to experience art using their classroom computers thanks to a collaborative effort by the University of North Texas and the Dallas Museum of Art. The March Foundation presented $856,000 to the program to benefit the students, the project not only allows children to visit the Museum regularly but also offers them information about the museum's exhibits and collections on interactive computer programs.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Veronika Jenke, National Museum of African Art. In regards to Jenke loaning McCarter and Reynolds slide programs, video tapes and books from the museum. In turn McCarter and Reynolds ask of Jenke to make the materials available on loan for the teachers in the NTIEVA consortium as the information is invaluable. McCarter and Reynolds have included information for a Frequency of Use Report, for the National Gallery of Art of which NTIEVA is an affiliate of and loan materials from, hoping that Jenke will take their request into consideration.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, Jack Davis and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Russel Chapman, Principal of Lakewood Elementary School. In regards to Chapman's selection by the Getty Institute to represent North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the upcoming National Administrators Focus Group Conference and that Chapman's enthusiasm and dedication to the discipline-based art education, DBAE, program deserves recognition. The focus group meeting is an opportunity for Chapman to convene with other administrators to discuss programs such as DBAE and to present how successful DBAE is with Lakewood.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Anne Sears, teacher at T.D. Marshall Learning Center. Broadus has given Sears lesson plans from Kay Alexander's Learning to Look and Create: The SPECTRA Series. Broadus writes that the art curriculum offers numerous ideas for correlating activities with concepts and addresses interdisciplinary curriculum ideas, highlighting some important introductory lesson plans that Broadus believes will be useful for Sears. Lesson plans are missing from letter.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, to Esther Livingston, teacher at T.D. Marshall Elementary School. Broadus has gifted Livingston overhead transparencies to be used in Livingston's transportation unit curriculum. The transparencies include, Winslow Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) and other similar subjects for the elementary school children. Broadus ends the letter by suggesting a class visitation to correlate a lesson plan for the children in arts and language.

A letter from Deborah Marrow to Phillip C. Diebel about informing Diebel that The Getty Grant Program has approved a one-to-one matching grant for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A letter from Dr. Anne R. Bromberg, Director of Education at the DMA, to Drs. D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, co-directors of the project. The letter addresses the continued support to the proposal of a North Texas Regional Institute for Educators in the Visual Arts and its DBAE concept.

A letter from Edmund P. Pillsbury, Director of the Kimbell Art Museum, to D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, co-directors of the project. The letter references a previous exchange between the group and addresses the continued support of the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts project.

A letter from Harriet Laney to Nancy Walkup about the payment for Ollie Theisen to be donated to the John Biggers Scholarship Fund.

Photocopy of a letter from Herbert Holl, executive director of Greater Denton Arts Council, to William McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter is in regards to the Arts council awarding $750.00 to support North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. A copy of the contract between both parties must be signed a returned January 31, 1991.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Melba Davis Whatley. The letter is in regards to a discussion over advocacy programs and wanting to discuss these ideas with school board members / political leaders to have them look in depth at the discipline-based art education and what contributions it makes to the education of the students. Davis and McCarter mention the Texas Association of School Boards, TASB and believe they could be used a vehicle for doing most of the ground work on advocacy. If NTIEVA works with TASB now they can get a presentation together on art education for their annual conference. Davis and McCarter end the letter by thanking Whatley for her ideas and to contact them if she has any others. Copied on the letters are Leilani Lattin Duke, Vicki Rosenberg and M'Lou Bancroft, faculty of the Getty Center. Scribbled at the end of the letter reads, "Mrs. Whatley, I will be in Austin on October 29 and 30. If you'd like to discuss this, perhaps we ... have dinner on Thursday evening. Jack"

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Janice Wiggins, Dallas ISD. Discussing the use of grant money. Wiggins requested that the grant money, intended to be used for support of Dallas I.S.D's participation in the Secondary Institute be used to stipends for participants of the Elementary Institute instead. Davis writes back that this is not possible for several reason which he encloses in the letter, the first being that he does not want to jeopardize the relationship with his funders by using the grants for something that was not made clear in the condition when the money was given. Davis explains that if the money is not used for its original intended purpose for which they were in agreement, then they are obligated to return the money back. Copied on the letter is Bill Cormack.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Thomas F. Beech, executive vice president of the Anne Burnett and Charles D. Tandy Foundation. The letter is in regards to previous correspondence between Davis and Beech, where Beech said to submit progress of the institute at the beginning of the year for re-consideration of grant support from the foundation. The letter goes into detailed length of the success of the first year of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer of the Getty Center. In regards to a conversation they had regarding the NTIEVA newsletters and sale of advertisements. Davis writes that they could cover the cost of publishing the newsletter by the sale of advertisements as their mailing list exceeds one-thousand. Davis wants to further discuss the details with Marcus Foundation and the Amon Carter Foundation as well before making a decision. Copied on the letter are Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds.

Photocopy of a letter from James Muro, Vice President of Development, Office of Advacement, The University of North Texas, to Bob J. Crow, Executive Director for the Amon G. Carter Foundation. In regards to Muro's gratification for the foundation's continued support for the visual arts project. bc'd on the letter are, Jack Davis and Bill McCarter.

A letter from Jan K. Muhlert, director of the Amon Carter Museum, to D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, co-directors of the project. The letter addresses the continued support of the Amon Carter towards the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

Photocopy of a letter from Jan Schronk to Bill McCarter about an upcoming inservice session about the Discipline Based Art Education program. Included in the document is the information about the date, time, cost, and location of the event. The letter was printed on HEB ISD stationery.