Photocopy of a letter from Julie Abel, Program Associate, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In discussion about the remaining funds from the Getty Center Education Institute grant to the RIG consortium be awarded to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts program. Abel makes a list of issues that need to be discussed and would like to meet up with Davis to discuss them.

Photocopy of a letter from Camille C. Alexander, corporate contributions coordinator of JCP, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter is in regards to prior correspondence where Davis submitted information regarding North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to JCP, Alexander writes they have received such information and will be reviewed for funding.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus to Sharon Warwick, in regards to the material that Warwick is using in class to teach her students. Enclosed in the letter Broadus has given suggestions to enhance the material better and has included materials that Broadus believes Warwick will find interesting such as Art History Games and other materials to focus on the children's perceptions. Thematic units are enclosed with the letter.

A letter from Blaine Brownell, Provost, University of North Texas, to D. Jack Davis, Vice Provost of UNT and Co-Director of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, about developing proposed changes to UNT's communication and publishing policies. These changes including exceptions in special circumstances, exemptions for materials paid for with grants, and to allow senior administrators to order limited quantities of executive style stationery.

A letter from Nancy Cason, Program Coordinator for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Brent Wilson, an evaluator at the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The letter is in regards to seeing Wilson at the Getty conference and enjoying his presentation on the regional institutes. Cason writes that they are excited about the summer institute and are looking forward to his visitation in May.

Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Cason, Project Coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Kim Gill, Christie Elementary, Plano ISD. In regards to the institute putting together a video to show teachers who have not yet received training and they would like to include a video of Gill teaching language arts to her second graders into the reproduction with her permission. NTIEVA feels Gill's well-designed lesson will serve as an inspiring model for others and hoping Gill will contact them soon.

Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Cason, Project Coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Polly Tallas, Saigling Elementary. In regards to the institute putting together a video to show the teachers who have not yet received training. Cason would like to include a video of Tallas, that she received from Lynda Alford, teaching story telling to her second grade students using art reproductions into the video. NTIEVA feels Tallas' well-designed lesson will serve as an inspiring model for others and hoping Tallas will contact them soon with permission.

A detailed document, presenting a statement by the Center for Educational Innovation titled "What It Means for New York's School Children."

A clipping from the 'Achievers' section of the December 27, 1994 Dallas Morning News. Featured are Dr. R. William McCarter, a UNT professor and co-director of the NTIEVA program, UNT professors William Brookshire and Michael Sayler, and writer Emily B. Thornbury.

A letter from D. Jack Davis, Vice Provost, University of North Texas and Co-director, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Harriet Laney, Office Manager, NTIEVA, about bringing up the Daburn printing deal with the Dean's Council in regards to printing policy.

A letter from D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter to Vicki Rosenberg that list the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts activities, projects, staff developments, district needs, changes, budget, and matching grants from January 1, 1991 - May 1, 1991. Attached appendixes include working agendas, newsletters, and art-o-grams.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Kenneth Bird, Superintendent of Westside Community Schools. In regards to NTIEVA's participation in Westide Community Schools - Prairie Visions Art and Technology Integration Project. Davis writes that as one of the Getty Regional Institutes, NTIEVA would be involved in Year IV and participate in the projects components such as the curriculum development, instruction strategies, developing electronic portfolios and other computer-based education projects. In the rest of the letter Davis writes about their other projects with the Dallas Museum of Art and Prairie Vision for the past decade and the strides they've made towards their goals.

A memo from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Vicki Rosenberg, program officer at Getty Center for Education in the Arts, The memo is in regards to the idea of inviting M'Lou Bancroft, Executive Director of the Marcus Foundation and Carolyn Clark, a board members, to a dinner in October. Davis writes that for the Austin conference it would be a good idea to invite Melba Davis Whatley, the chair of the Marcus Foundation Board and her husband to one or more sessions.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Sharon Benge, Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Confirming a planned meeting of the Advisory Committee for North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts on Wednesday, March 4, 1992. The meeting will be held at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth with Jan Muhlert as chair of the Advisory Committee. Davis and McCarter have enclosed an agenda for the meeting which will go over a number of topics. Davis and McCarter ask Benge is she has any additional items which need to be added to the list and to bring them to the scheduled meeting for discussion. List of topics not present with letter.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Bob J. Crow, Executive Director of the Amon G. Carter Foundation. In regards to having received the check from the foundation for $60,000 in the Center's continued support of the NTIEVA program.

Photocopy of a letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Pat Smith Hopper, in discussion of Hopper's letter sent May 20th with an enclosed copy of a thematic unit focusing on Native American Sioux Culture. However, the Getty Center does not endorse products, but Duke has sent a list of regional institute directors who specialize in discipline-based art education and might be interested in Hopper's unit. Enclosed with the letter, is the proposal from Hopper to Duke with the thematic unit on Native American Sioux Culture.

Photocopy of a letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, Director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Pat Smith Hopper. The letter is in regards to an education unit sent by Hopper to Duke focusing on Native American Sioux Culture developed by Hopper and Dr. Barbara Erwin. Duke appreciates the interest in Hopper sharing her work with the Center, however, the Center is not able to endorse the product. Enclosed in the letter to Hopper, Duke has added a list of regional institute directors who could be interested in the discipline-based art education and the unit on Sioux culture. List not present with letter. Bcc'd is Jack Davis.

Photocopy of a letter from Leilani Lattin Duke to the leading members of the Discipline Based Art Education program about an advocacy video entitled, "Arts For Life". Duke is sending out the copies to the leaders in order to learn what reactions the video receives.

A memo from Leilani Lattin Duke, director for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors. The memo is in regards to the interest and possible future presentations and speeches and Duke has attached to the memo an opinion survey about what the American public thinks about arts and arts education.

A letter from Elliot Eisner to members of the National Curriculum Working Group about their upcoming meeting in Los Angeles. Eisner describes the purpose of the meeting, to develop art education curriculums, and provides a tentative agenda.

A newspaper clipping, published by The Dallas Morning News, features an article with the headline, "Wheels of invention - Story inspires Bedford students to roll out of car-designs ideas" written by A. Lee Graham. Students at Shady Brook Elementary School, Bedford Texas, have been transforming burger boxes, mustard bottles, toilet paper rolls and other unlikely items to build toy cars. The inspiration comes from a book titled "Galimoto," which means car in Chichewa, a native language in Malawi, Africa.

Photocopy of a letter from Alfred F. Hurley, Chancellor of the Texas College of Ostehopathic Medicine, University of North Texas, to Melba Davis Whatley, executive director at the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation. The letter is in regards to everyone at the University expressing their deep gratitude for the recent gift from the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation for the continued support of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. cc'd on the letter are Jack Davis and William McCarter.

Photocopy of a press release from the J. Paul Getty Trust concerning the 1994 Doctoral Fellowships in Art Education that are awarded by Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The release discusses the process of choosing people for the Doctoral Fellowship program. At the end is a list of the seven 1994 Doctoral Fellows, their relative departments and universities, and the titles of their dissertations.

A letter from Leanna Landsmann, Landsmann & Schutz, Publishers and Problem Solvers for the School and Youth Markets, to Sheila Brown, director for Arts / Gifted Education at the Nebraska Depart of Education, and Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter expresses Landsmann's reaffirmation in the distance learning effort, despite what one of the consultants in Dallas previously thought otherwise.