A newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts conduct its 1991 summer institute on art education June 17 - 28. More than one-hundred educators, teachers, art supervisors, principals, museum educators, and graduate students are expected to attend. NTIEVA is one of the six institutes in the nation funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation with a goal to bring discipline-based art education into public schools to improve visual literacy.

A memo from Barry M. Wagner to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The memo is in regards to prior correspondence between Wagner and Davis, over the Nebraska and Texas teleconference. Wagner writes, if they are co-producers they should pick up this charge of $1200.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on struggles the Amon Carter Museum faces by dealing with the declining resources. The Amon Carter Museum is also looking to replace, former museum director Jan Muhlert, who abruptly resigned. Museum officials have discussed for several months what to do to carry the museum to a new stage.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Kay and Ben Fortson. Kay Carter Forston is president of the private nonprofit foundation that funds and governs the Kimbell, along with her husband independent oilman Ben J. Fortson being the vice president and chief financial officer. During the Kimbell Art Museum's opening in October 1972, they were worried they didn't have enough definitive artwork to fill the museum.

E-mail correspondence from Julie Abel, Program Associate, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors. The e-mail is in regards to the January 1995 Director's meeting about findings from the 1994 Cross-Site report as a way to begin communicating in cyberspace. Abel requests that the directors share their thoughts and ideas about and solutions to major issues discussed in the report between March 15 and April 14. cc'd in the letter are Julie Abel, Candy Borland, David Pankratz, Blanche Rubin, Miki Baumgarten, Lani Duke, Vicki Rosenberg and Brent Wilson.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.

Letter from Kenneth M. Bird, Superintendent of Westside Community Schools to Interagency Technology Task Force Members. The letter is in regards to Prairie Vision Consortium for Discipline-Based Art Education, their committed partners and the Westside Community School District submitting the letter to seek the Challenge Grant for Technology in Education. The letter details that Prairie Vision provides professional development in discipline-based art education for teachers, administrators and others. The grant will be used to the continued growth of the project and to address many of their programs needs. Included in the letter is the planning grant document.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.

A newsletter clipping with bulletin information about the art happenings at the University of North Texas, information about the progress with the program North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and with the art faculty involved at the school, the program and the Denton community. This newsletter informs about the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation in Dallas awarded a three-year grant of $225,000 to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas.

A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the University of North Texas and their education reform program developed by staff William McCarter and Jack Davis. The education reform program is an experiment on the children in their classrooms by teaching them different methods of arts education. McCarter states that research has shown that arts expand all areas of the curriculum by tapping into higher-level thinking skills and that art makes a measurable difference in test scores. The funding, worth up to $15 million will be divided into thirty-six schools, six in Texas, to receive up to $35,000 in funding services for five years.

A newspaper clipping on the University of North Texas in Denton working with six local elementary schools to implement comprehensive arts education over the next five years as part of a $15 million experiment in education reform. The education reform is "Art Partner Schools" granting anywhere from $25,000 - $35,000 annually for five years to thirty-six elementary schools. Sent from the office of Jack Davis to colleagues, keeping track of the "University of North Texas in the news."

A newspaper clipping, published by The Dallas Morning News, featuring an article on Edith and Peter O'Donnell. The O'Donnells were just honored the 64th Linz Award for their philanthropy in the arts, education, science and medicine in the Dallas area. As co-founded of Young Audiences of Greater Dallas, Edith O'Donnell brought the music, dance and theater programs to DISD and sixteen other school systems in the DFW area.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Bader Alruwais of Saudi Arabia, a two-year resident of Denton, receiving the Prince Bandar ibn Sultan Annual Award for Cultural and Scientific Research. Mr. Alruwais is a doctoral student in the Art Education Program at the University of North Texas, he won the award and a cash prize for $3,000, for his proposal of an innovative approach to teaching art inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A newsletter, Educational Leadership, Vol. 46, No. 7. Portfolio Assessment: Sampling Student Work, When students maintain portfolios of their work, they learn to assess their own progress as learners, and teachers gain new views of their accomplishments in teaching. A consortia of administrators, teachers and researchers in the Pittsburgh schools have been searching for alternatives to standardized assessments. A three-way collaborative project, Arts Propel, is composed of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Educational Testing Services and Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education to demonstrate that it is possible to asses the thinking in arts and humanities.

A document that lists out Educational resource websites and the types of materials, lessons and resources that they offer.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and William McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Vicki J. Rosenberg, Program Officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The letter is in regards to the enclosed copies of the Implementation Grant Proposal for the establishment of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The proposal details the primary objective of the institute alone with their consortia members.

Photocopy of a memo from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the RIG Directors. The memo is in regards to Duke sending a copy of a video containing three ninety second public service announcements, a join project last fall with Fox Children's Network. Each of the PSAs tell a story, giving concrete examples of the ways in which the arts can be relevant and enriching to children's lives.

A memo from W. Dwaine Greer and Stevie Mack, co-directors of IVAE, Improving Visual Arts Education a project from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the IVAE consultants. The memo is in regards to an update on the IVAE program and how the Getty Center will decided to using the upcoming year to review the IVAE project and to think through options for dissemination and therefore there will be no renewal raining in Los Angeles this summer for IVAE consultant.

Photocopy of a letter from Lori Weisgerber, from the office of Vicki Rosenberg, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors, Jean Detlefsen, Blanche Rubin and Brent Wilson. The letter is in regards to the April 27th - 30th, 1995 meeting, which guides them for accommodations, attire, pre-meeting events and the logistics of the conference. Included in the letter is a draft agenda that is subjected to changes.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about Fort Worth ISD being high in art education grades. The article goes into the fact that arts education has been around since the 1950s but there never has been such an interest until now, art education is being re-examined. Art is being viewed as important to all students as a means of enchaining learning and other disciplines such as math and science. The article continues into the hard work that Getty Center and the education reformation program has undergone to see changes in the schools curriculum.

A memo from Julie Abel, program associate for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors, Sheila Brown, Maggie DiBlasio, Phyllis Scott Johnson, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, Bill McCarter, Nancy Roucher, Brent Wilson, Jack Davis, Edith Curtis Johnson, Anne Lindsey, Nancy MacGregor, Tom McMullen, Frances Thurber, and Joyce Wright. The memo is in regards to the Four Season's Biltmore agreeing to extend the center's rate if they directors wish to stay before or after the Regional Institute Directors' Meeting, November 3 - 6, 1992. If they plan to do so, to make arrangements with Rebecca Huetter, and to tell Huetter that they are with the Getty Group. cc'd on the memo, Ann Bassi, Michael Kendall, Elizabeth Paul, Kathy Talley-Jones, Leilani Lattin Duke, Bill Keens and Mary Ann Stankiewicz.

Photocopy of a letter from R. William McCarter, with NTIEVA, to Leilani Lattin Duke, Director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The letter was mainly focused on updates with McCarter's professional development, the progress of a video disk project and Nancy Reynolds whose focus is multicultural education.

A e-mail from Mark Withers to William McCarter, April 15, 1993 with the subject: Two way transmissions. The e-mail is in regards prior correspondence between the two, with Wither saying the use of the studio for an activity depends on the format of the lecture.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, Jack Davis and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Chad Woolery, Acting Superintendent for Dallas ISD. In regards to an administrators day at the Dallas Museum of Art that Woolery has been invited to along with other participating principals and art coordinators from Woolery's district for April 25. Enclosed in the letter are a list of those who have been invited as the event will give them a chance to discuss the upcoming 1994 summer institute.