Photocopy of a letter from Marvin E. Edwards, General Superintendent, Dallas ISD, to Bill McCarter, co-director for North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Thanking McCarter for his letter of January 10, 1992 requesting the attendance of Janice Wiggins, Visual Arts Specialist for the DISD at the National Art Education Association Conference, which Edwards is pleased to have her participate in the DBAE report. Edwards also is in support of the discipline-based approach to teaching of the art as it not only encourages studio art training but reinforces other goals like improved reading, interdisciplinary studies and high lever activities. Edwards is pleased with the program and what opportunities it offers their students.

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer of the Getty Center, to the Regional and Californian Institute Exhibition Staff. In regards to "Achieving National Education Reform: Art Education as Catalyst" conference being held at San Francisco Hilton and Towers, February 3, 1993. The letter holds information about travel arrangements needed to be made before January 20th, hotel reservations and notification that the Getty center will cover the cost of lodging, incidental expenses that the center will reimburse related to the attendance at the conference, including meals and transportation from airport, exhibition staff duties being members of the regional institute, and conference registration. Enclosed with the invitation, are a schedule of the conference for the exhibit staff and an agenda list.

Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, project coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Nancy Ruff, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. In regards to a letter that Bill McCarter and Jack Davis wrote to Russ Chapman, Principal of Lakewood Elementary School, to congratulate Chapman on being selected by the Getty Institute to attend a National Administrators Focus Group Conference. Reynolds informs Ruff that Chapman will give presentations on two different days about the importance of arts in education, June 8th and June 14th.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Janice Wiggins, Dallas ISD. Discussing the use of grant money. Wiggins requested that the grant money, intended to be used for support of Dallas I.S.D's participation in the Secondary Institute be used to stipends for participants of the Elementary Institute instead. Davis writes back that this is not possible for several reason which he encloses in the letter, the first being that he does not want to jeopardize the relationship with his funders by using the grants for something that was not made clear in the condition when the money was given. Davis explains that if the money is not used for its original intended purpose for which they were in agreement, then they are obligated to return the money back. Copied on the letter is Bill Cormack.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, Jack Davis and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Russel Chapman, Principal of Lakewood Elementary School. In regards to Chapman's selection by the Getty Institute to represent North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the upcoming National Administrators Focus Group Conference and that Chapman's enthusiasm and dedication to the discipline-based art education, DBAE, program deserves recognition. The focus group meeting is an opportunity for Chapman to convene with other administrators to discuss programs such as DBAE and to present how successful DBAE is with Lakewood.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, to Esther Livingston, teacher at T.D. Marshall Elementary School. Broadus has gifted Livingston overhead transparencies to be used in Livingston's transportation unit curriculum. The transparencies include, Winslow Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) and other similar subjects for the elementary school children. Broadus ends the letter by suggesting a class visitation to correlate a lesson plan for the children in arts and language.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Anne Sears, teacher at T.D. Marshall Learning Center. Broadus has given Sears lesson plans from Kay Alexander's Learning to Look and Create: The SPECTRA Series. Broadus writes that the art curriculum offers numerous ideas for correlating activities with concepts and addresses interdisciplinary curriculum ideas, highlighting some important introductory lesson plans that Broadus believes will be useful for Sears. Lesson plans are missing from letter.

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"

Photocopy of a letter from Lori Weisgerber, the Getty Center, to the professional development meeting attenders, as listed: Julie Abel, Sheila Brown, Jack Davis, Virginia Gembica, Rick Lasher, nancy MacGregor, David, Pankratz, Vicki Rosenberg, Kathy Talley-Jones, Donna Kay Beattie, Michael Day, Margaret, DiBlasio, Edith Johnson, Anne Lindsey, Val Marmillion, Michael Parson, Nancy Roucher, Brent Wilson, Candy Borland, Jean Detlefsen, Lani Duke, Phyllis Johnson, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, Bill McCarter (crossed off), Jeff Patchen, Marilyn Stewart and Joyce Wright . Weisgerber has attached to the memo the summary of the meeting that was held in Laguna Beach, California on April 28 - 29, 1995. The summary of the meeting covers everything that has happened within those two days.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Veronika Jenke, National Museum of African Art. In regards to Jenke loaning McCarter and Reynolds slide programs, video tapes and books from the museum. In turn McCarter and Reynolds ask of Jenke to make the materials available on loan for the teachers in the NTIEVA consortium as the information is invaluable. McCarter and Reynolds have included information for a Frequency of Use Report, for the National Gallery of Art of which NTIEVA is an affiliate of and loan materials from, hoping that Jenke will take their request into consideration.

A review and routing form submitted by North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to the Texas Commission on the Arts requesting funding from September 1, 1999 to August 31, 2000. The following webpage have been printed from the TCA website as sensitive organization information had been filled out during application process.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Thomas F. Beech, executive vice president of the Anne Burnett and Charles D. Tandy Foundation. The letter is in regards to previous correspondence between Davis and Beech, where Beech said to submit progress of the institute at the beginning of the year for re-consideration of grant support from the foundation. The letter goes into detailed length of the success of the first year of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

Photocopy of a letter from Herbert Holl, executive director of Greater Denton Arts Council, to William McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter is in regards to the Arts council awarding $750.00 to support North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. A copy of the contract between both parties must be signed a returned January 31, 1991.

An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the upcoming collections and events at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. It is titled Little Journeys and has information about tours and group visits.

A clipping of an article written by Paige Taylor for the Arts and Entertainment section of The North Texas Daily. The article discusses the Marcus Foundation grant that was received by the NTIEVA program at UNT and the Dallas Museum of Art.

A letter from Jan K. Muhlert, director of the Amon Carter Museum, to D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, co-directors of the project. The letter addresses the continued support of the Amon Carter towards the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

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 Edmund P. Pillsbury, Director of the Kimbell Art Museum, to D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, co-directors of the project. The letter references a previous exchange between the group and addresses the continued support of the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts project.

A letter from Dr. Anne R. Bromberg, Director of Education at the DMA, to Drs. D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, co-directors of the project. The letter addresses the continued support to the proposal of a North Texas Regional Institute for Educators in the Visual Arts and its DBAE concept.

Photocopy of a letter from Jan Schronk to Bill McCarter about an upcoming inservice session about the Discipline Based Art Education program. Included in the document is the information about the date, time, cost, and location of the event. The letter was printed on HEB ISD stationery.

Photocopy of a memo from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, Virginia Gembica, Edith Johnson, Phyllis Johnson, Joyce Wright, Nancy MacGregor, Michael Parson, Jeff Patch and Anne Lindsey. The memo is in regards to the Tremaine Foundation awarding the National Endowment for the Arts a $200,000 challenge grant to create the Goals 2000 Arts Education Leadership Fund. The funds purpose is to encourage arts education advocates to design a campaign for ensuring that the arts are part of their state's Goals 2000 plans.

Photocopy of a letter from John Paul Batiste to Mark Elder about an application for the Financial Assistance Program that has been fulfilled for $1,830.00. Batiste lists the requirements that must be met before receiving the funding.

Photocopy of a memo from Julie Abel, program associate for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors, Sheila Brown, Phyllis Scott Johnson, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, William McCarter, Joyce Wright, Virginia Gembica, Anne Lindsey, Nancy MacGregor and Susan Rotilie. The memo is in regards to an enclosed copy of the Time for Reform by Susanna Purnell and Paul Hill, published by RAND that Vicki Rosenberg thought the directors would find interesting and beneficial. cc'd on the memo, Jack Davis, Edith Curtis Johnson, Margaret DiBlasio and Nancy Roucher.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about school children who will get a chance to experience art using their classroom computers thanks to a collaborative effort by the University of North Texas and the Dallas Museum of Art. The March Foundation presented $856,000 to the program to benefit the students, the project not only allows children to visit the Museum regularly but also offers them information about the museum's exhibits and collections on interactive computer programs.