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

A letter from Ann Bassi, program officer from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter is in regards to a prior meeting where Davis and Sheila Brown provided information for the Center to participate in a project which director correlation for the Center's DBAE / National Dissemination Project. Bassi also writes that Davis should be congratulated for the many positive aspects of the teleconferencing and she hopes to see Davis in Santa Barbara in the upcoming week to discuss it.

A letter from Ann Bassi, program officer from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter is in regards to a prior meeting where Davis and Sheila Brown provided information for the Center to participate in a project which director correlation for the Center's DBAE / National Dissemination Project. Bassi also writes that Davis should be congratulated for the many positive aspects of the teleconferencing and she hopes to see Davis in Santa Barbara in the upcoming week to discuss it.

Letter from Betti Balli Torres to Donald L. Skipworth discussing a grant awarded by the Texas Human Rights Foundation and issues with the disbursement of that grant.

Letter from Dean Jaros to Joseph P. Luce discussing his book on early woman pilots and asking if he could contact the individual that was in charge of developing the WASP monument.

A letter from Elizabeth Stroud to teachers about informing them of the schedule for the upcoming teacher training program.

Letter from Frank R. Aqueno to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to invite Houston to his provocative one-man performance piece titled Queer Pier. He encloses a xeroxed newspaper clipping from The Advocate about his play. A third clipping shows a portrait of the writer wearing sunglasses, shorts, and an American flag bandana in front of a chain-link fence.

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"

Letter from Jack Evans and George Harris to Roseann discussing photographs from Dallas Way projects.

A letter from Mary Ann Stankiewicz, program officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors. In the letter, Stankiewicz says that she is leaving her position as program officer at the Getty Center for Education in the Arts effective October 8, 1992. Starting November 2, 1992, Stankiewicz says she will be the Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. The letter she gives her new work address, telephone and fax number. The move to Florida will also affect her husband, David Ebitz, also November 2 he will be the director of the Ringling Museum of Art. cc'd on the letter is Vicki Rosenberg.

Letter from Maurine to Barbara Jordan thanking her for coming to St. Louis and saying that everyone was inspired by her message. She mentions that there are enclosed photos taken during Jordan's time there.

Letter from Michelle Barnes to Deloyd Parker offering the Community Artists' Collective's support for the SHAPE Community Center's Juvenile Delinquent Prevention Program. The Collective is a partner of the Harembee Project and is offering to provide classes in the arts.

Letter from Michelle Barnes to Roger Ward discussing the Community Artists' Collective's support for designating the Third Ward area of Houston as the neighborhood to initiate the Annie E. Casey Mental Health Project.

A letter from Nancy Walkup Reynolds to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts participants about informing them of a photography workshop hosted by Beverly Fletcher. Attached documents include participant lists for the workshop.

A letter from R. William McCarter and Nancy Walkup Reynolds to Selected Institute Art Specialist about inviting them to participate in specialized leadership training for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts summer institute. Attached documents include a attendance list, a class roll, a letter from R. William McCarter, and more.

Letter from Suzy Wagers to the Executive Committee of the Texas Human Rights Foundation discussing the Care Foundation and possible grant opportunities.

Letter from Suzy Wagers to the Trustees of the Texas Human Rights Foundation discussing the Foundation's board retreat details.

Letter from the New England Benefits Group to the Texas Human Rights Foundation discussing the renewal of insurance by the foundation with the benefits group.

A letter from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Paul Few, Assistant General Manager Administration & Finance, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The letter is in regards to enclosed copies of the Getty Center for Education's agreement with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Television Department dated September 10, 1992. Rosenberg needs Few to sign and date both copies of the agreement and return them. cc'd on the letter, Ann Bassi, Sheila Brown, Jack Davis, Mary Day, Mark Kelly and William McCarter.

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.

A letter from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announcing the 5th annual Change Conference and its registration for media kits.

A letter from The Washington Blade's editor, Lisa Keen, to Dennis Vercher thanking him for participating in the national poll that will be used for gay news publications around the country.

Pages two and three of a memo to the Improving Visual Arts Education Consultants, Cincinnati IVAE Seminar Participants, Cranbrook IVAE Seminar Participants. The memo details the Center's appreciation of the interest the consultants have in discipline-based art education and will continue to keep IVAE projects on the mailing list to continue to inform them of future Center plans as the Center has spent many years the best means to spread DBAE across the United States.

A memo from Ann Bassi, program officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to participants in the October 21 - 22, NDP planning meeting. Sheila Brown, Luis Casanova, Peter Chant, Jack Davis, Leilai Lattin Duke, Anne Forster, Leanna Landsmann, Valsin Marmillion, Inabeth Miller, Elizabeth Paul, Bonnie Pitman, Lee Rockwell, Nancy Reynolds, Vicki Rosenberg and John Wedman. The memo is in regards to the agenda for the October 21 - 22 meeting, whose primary purpose is to observe and discuss results from the joint teleconference developed by the Center's Nebraska and Texas regional institutes.