A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the sixty elementary school teachers and art specialists who have taught students to think for themselves, being on of the purpose of discipline-based art education. Nancy Reynolds, project coordinator for North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts says there are no right or wrong answers when discussing art. A two-week summer institute ended with more than two-hundred teachers from six school districts involved with the education reform program.

An newspaper clipping with two photograph images, the first one is Chinese artist, Xiaoze Xie demonstrating Chinese figure painting to the Sam Houston Elementary school. The second image is Cynda Riddle talking with Xie during his demonstration.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Jay Rodney Gates, the Dallas Museum of Art art director who has just sold his house in Seattle and has purchased a new home in Dallas to begin his job at the museum. His first priority is to get the Hamon building open, quoting "You only get to do it once."

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Jack Davis, Regents Professor turned Dean of the newly established College of Visuals Arts. The College of Visual Arts was known to be the Arts department has been redesigned as the School of Visual Arts from the Texas Higher Education Board and Dr. Davis has been appointed dean, subject to approval by the Board of Regents.