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 Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Julie Abel, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Discussing the current and future budgeting of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts with the Getty Center and the use of the left over funding from the FY96 year to be used in the FY97 year. Attached to the letter is a revised budget including the request to carryover the remaining funding.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Deborah Howes, Associate Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recommendation letter is in regards to the news of the Met's consideration of having one of UNT's graduate students, Rebecca Arkenberg, hold an internship in Howes's department. McCarter goes on to write about how wonderful of a student Arkenberg is and that he'll be sad to see her go but her skills are superb beyond others and her work with North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts is exemplary.

Photocopy of the DBAE Leadership Forum text summary from Vicki Rosenberg, Senior Program Officer of the Getty Center, to the center's forum participants. The Getty Education Institute has provided the participants with a summary of the DBAE Leadership forum that was held January 11, 1997. The summary describes all that had transpired at the DBAE Leadership conference, beginning with a speech from the Director of Getty Education Institute for the Arts, Leilani Lattin Duke. The context of the summary is positive, the recommendations from the conferences' discussion are being used by the Education Institute to inform long-range plans for educational reform, taking arts education into the next century.

Photocopy of a letter from Pam Stephens, graduate research assistant, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Cyndi Riddle, Art Specialist at North Hi Mount Elementary. The letter is in regards to the idea of teacher-presenters at Texas Art Education Association meetings, believing it is an excellent suggestion. Stephens has already contacted Linda Alford from Plano and Jan Schronk from Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, about commitments to their teachers and helping to host. Included in the letter are suggestions about helping cater to presenter needs.

Photocopy of a memo from Lori Weisgerber, Getty Center, to Jack Davis, Harriet Laney and Bill McCarter, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, with information regarding the Advisory Committee and outlines of information needed to updated in the committee notebook.

Photocopy of a letter from Pam Stephens, Project Coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Jan Schronk, Coordinator of Fine Arts for Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. Reminding Schronk that the Teaching Art Education Association conference will be held in Fort Worth in November. Nancy Walkup Reynolds, Beverly Fletcher and Stephens are putting the conference together and contacting NTIEVA consortium districts to ask that art specialists attend and consider making presentations and serving as hosts at the event. To attend the conference as a participant, the teacher must be a member of TAEA, enclosed in the letter are membership forms. Stephens would like this event to be hospitable to visiting educators and would like to visit Schronk's next art meeting to beg her case before the teachers.

A letter to Jack Davis, Dean of Unversity of North Texas' School of Visual Arts, from Marilyn Martin, Manager of Grant Contracts and Evaluations at the Texas Commission on the Arts, in regards to an attached contract that must be signed by Phillip C. Diebel or the expenses for the project will not be incurred until it has been signed by both parties. The contract goes into the terms and conditions of the agreement between both parties.

Photocopy of a letter from an unidentified writer to Connie Newton. In the letter, which mentions previous correspondence between the two of a fax on April 30, 1997, the writer thanks Connie for the necessary information about the Ph.D. course in Art Education and that the Administration approved the Gulbenkian project which include a summer course. At the end of the letter is a list of specialists and educators who want to partake in the Gulbenkian project, the group which originally had five people in participant is up to seven. The writer asks Connie if there is room in the fees to pay for two more.

Photocopy of a letter from Margie Desiderato, Grants Clerk at North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to John Paul Batiste in regards to the revised budget based on the award amount for the 1998 fiscal year. The figure have been revised to reflect funding by TCA of $6,306 and a private funding of $18,694. Attached to the letter is the revised budget. cc'd are Jack Davis and Harriet Laney.

A letter from Marilyn Martin to NTIEVA about an Evaluation Report for the 1997 Fiscal Year. Martin provides information and a warning about missing or late documents and contact information. Attached is a filled out form from NTIEVA and filled out by D. Jack Davis.

A letter from Marilyn Martin to NTIEVA about the documentation needed to complete the Evaluation Report Form. Enclosed is a checklist for the ERF and an update about Federal Financial Audit Requirements.

A letter from D. Jack Davis to Maria Cristina Biazus informing Biazus that the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts would like to have art teachers from Brazil to participate in the upcoming Summer Institute. Attached are newsletters from Brazil that outline art education activities and programs that are occurring throughout the country.

Letter from the US Postal Service to the Texas Human Rights Foundation about their approval for nonprofit mailing privileges.

A memo from Nancy Berry to Vicki Rosenberg, attaching a copy of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts proposal to the National Center for Art Museum/School Collaborations. Attached documents includes the proposal and a timeline of the proposal.

A letter from Julie Abel to Harriet Laney about approving the use of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts grant funds for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A letter dated April 21, 1997 from William Waybourn to Senator David Cain; Waybourn discusses supporters of Cain's who have passed on of HIV-related illnesses.

A report for the National Specialty Program grant via the National Center for Art Museum/School Collaborations. Attached documents include news article clippings, a survey on NCAMSC, conference evaluations and more.

A note from Maria K. Shoemaker to an unknown receiver about an attached check and requesting a report from a 1996 conference. The check is not attached to the document.

Letter to the National Center for Art Museum/School Collaborations addressing a check enclosed to purchase an analysis of Part 1 of the NCAMSC survey.

A letter from Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer at The Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to members of the National Curriculum Working Group about the four discipline-based curriculum units to be discussed at the upcoming National Curriculum Working Group meeting. Rosenberg gives a brief history of the Regional Institutes, which prepared the curriculum units.

A letter from R. William McCarter, Co-Director, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Elliot Eisner, Professor of Education and Art, Sandford University. McCarter talks about the success Texas schools had with implementing the eight concepts found in "Educating in a Multicultural World" in their art education. He list four of the most used concepts that have been used in curriculum throughout different disciplines. At the end of the document, he cc's Leilani Lattin Duke and Vicki Rosenberg.

A letter from Christine M. Ketay to D. Jack Davis informing Davis that the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts is to be a recipient of the President's Award for 1997 during the upcoming Honors Day celebration. There is the same letter but directed towards R. William McCarter. Attached letters are from various people and organizations offering their nomination of NTIEVA for the President's Award.

A letter from Elliot Eisner, Professor of Education and Art, Stanford University, to members of the National Curriculum Working Group asking for the members to send Eisner a copy of their unit they have been working on since their meeting.