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 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 contract for services between the Texas Commission on the Arts and the University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts. The contract is divided up into sections and details agreements that the contract will be valid from September 1, 1997 to August 31, 1998. The last page has the signatures of the Service Provider, UNT, and the Texas Commission.

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.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the newly constructed Getty Center, the massive $1 billion complex scheduled to open late December. The J. Paul Getty Trust' aims to become a public advocate for the arts, humanities and education in the United States. The Getty has named Barry Munitz the president and chief executive of the Getty Trust in January, replacing Harold M. Williams who announced his retirement.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Getty Center naming a new president and chief executive to guide the art institution. Dr. Barry Munitz has been named new president and CEO of the Getty Center, well established for his career as an educator, program assistant in a philanthropic foundation, successful businessman and university administrator. The new president challenge is finding creative ways to support the public discourse in contemporary cultural life.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the new Getty Center, the building budget of $1 billion is considered a architectural beauty. The five-building museum and research center will be a popular tourist attraction, wanting to break into the public involvement and shed its reputation as a remote citadel for high culture. That is one of the many challenges that newly appointed Getty Center president and CEO, Barry Munitz will have to face.

A comprehensive Letter of Agreement capturing the strategic collaboration between LeBlanc & Associates and NTIEVA. This document outlines the terms and conditions for the assessment of technological needs across six school campuses participating in the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge.