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From Esthetics to Empowerment: The Getty Trust (open access)

From Esthetics to Empowerment: The Getty Trust

Hispanic Outlook magazine, featuring an article on the Getty Trust. The Getty Center has seven realms under their belt, museums, five institutions and a grant program, their mission is to reach out to groups, typically groups that are underrepresented in the art world. The Getty shows that students who take art courses consistently score higher in both math and verbal parts of the SATs, as such the Getty Education Institute for the Arts has teamed with the Annenberg Foundation and the National Arts Education Consortium to select and fund thirty-six Arts Partner Schools.
Date: May 16, 1997
Creator: Schwarts, Vanessa A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter, Fall Semester 1997 (open access)

North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter, Fall Semester 1997

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Fall Semester, 1997, Vol. 8 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Learning Through Architecture," Why Teach Architecture? The newsletters states that students in the classroom are familiar with architecture even if they are not consciously aware of the structures. The newsletter provides suggested resources and the architecture of art museums to involve students into exploring architecture.
Date: Autumn 1997
Creator: North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter, Spring Semester 1997 (open access)

North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter, Spring Semester 1997

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 1997, Vol. 8 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Art Production," defining art production. The purpose of this newsletter is to discuss art production in the simplest terms, often referring to making of art objects and it includes artistic efforts that rang from children's fingerprinting to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
Date: Spring 1997
Creator: North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter, Summer Semester 1997 (open access)

North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter, Summer Semester 1997

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer Semester, 1997, Vol. 8 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "Public Art, Public Controversy," Public Art. This newsletter states that public art is a term that challenges definition, stating that art in public places is a more accurate description. The newsletter discuss the issues and controversies surrounding public art, the first is that public art is rarely democratic and instead represents power of government. The second, public art often becomes the focus for complaints that have nothing to do with its value and the third, a call for public art to move away from the elitist, modernist aesthetic.
Date: Summer 1997
Creator: North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
System: The UNT Digital Library
Viewing History Through A Computer Window (open access)

Viewing History Through A Computer Window

An article published in Arts & Activities magazine in the Pixel Palette section, titled "Viewing History Through A Computer Window," by Berniece Patterson. Patterson is an art teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Denton Texas. Patterson writes in her article that in a technological society she wants her students to be competent in creating original artworks on the computer, and in her classroom she has twenty-eight Macintosh computers with the software ClarisWorks installed. Patterson believes that it is important for students to learn about artists, their styles and what has influenced them throughout history and with the combined technology it makes it more possible.
Date: [1997..]
Creator: Patterson, Berniece
System: The UNT Digital Library