A newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of elementary students from Tomas Rivera Elementary School. In the photograph is student, Amber Jackson who is standing on chairs to work on a mural on the school wall.

A memo from Leilati Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis and William McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The memo is in regards to an attached draft response to the March 8th letter from Davis, McCarter and the museum educators in the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts consortia. Duke said if there are any changes please fax the changes by Monday, April 22.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Jack Davis, who is the dean of the School of Visual arts. Davis hopes that a $4.3 million dollar grant will show public schools that an education based on the arts increases student achievements in all fields. Davis is also co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, an art education consortium, whose belief is that visual image is a powerful learning tool.

A newsletter clipping featuring collaborations that the University of North Texas has been participating in. One such example is UNT"s collaboration with educational institutions, including the highly regarded initiative with public schools and art museums, the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A fax message from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The message says that Duke has reviewed their letter and she thinks it is fine, however, there is a typographical error in paragraph 3, line 3.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, by presenting him with an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. Dr. Pillsbury received his art history degree from Yale University and his doctorate from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, but his outstanding support of the arts in North Texas deserved him recognition.

A newsletter of Horace, vol. 12, No. 5 published by The Coalition of Essentials Schools at Brown University. The newsletter is featuring an article on the arts and arts education in regards to school curriculum reformation. Educators understand that the arts provide schools with a powerful alternative model of teaching and learning and they fear that aesthetics, criticism, creation and art history will be "watered down." Teachers use art and arts education to assess students' perceptions, productions and their reflection of artistic learning.

Press information, on the Annenberg Foundation, announcing their latest series of grants towards arts education. A $4.3 million challenge grant to six regional institutes to show how the arts can boost student academic achievements. The foundation is working with the Getty Center for Education and their consortia which includes, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A newsletter clipping featuring an article on a computer game titled "ART-GO," a reworking design of Bingo. Art-Go was designed to encourage a synthesis of ideas in the form of art thinking and art talking, a solution to the artist assessment problem - to measure the art cognition. The object of Art-Go, to develop observational skills and expressive dialogue that demonstrates what art concepts students understand or mis-understand.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Winter 1996, Vol. 7 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Aesthetics: Questioning The Nature of Art," higher level of thinking through aesthetics. The newsletter states that students become involved in aesthetic inquiry when something puzzles them about works of art. The newsletter will go over the topics and questions of what defines aesthetics and how to determine such in works of art.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, one of the six recipients nationally of a $4.3 million challenge grant announced by the Annenberg Foundation. The grant goal is to reform public schools using a bold program of arts education. The grant will provide $1.43 million for UNT"s North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to demonstrate how education in the arts can improve students.

A letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, and Vicki Rosenberg, program officer for the Getty, to Jack Davis/William McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, Gail Davitt, Aileen Horan, Maria Teresa Garcia-Pedroche, Allison Perkins, Linda Powell and Kathy Walsh-Piper. The letter is in regards to the issues raised by the institute directors about the recent evaluation report on the North Texas Institute. Duke and Rosenberg said their letter was timely as they are reviewing and designed of the evaluations of RIG programs and their letter serves as an important document to the specific concerns expressed.

A memo from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors and the 1996 Regional Institute Director's Meeting participants. The memo is in regards the cross-site report of the Regional Institute projects with important recommendations. cc'd on the memo, Julie Abel, Blanche Rubin, Leilani Lattin Duke and Brent Wilson. Attached to the memo is the Cross-Site Evaluation of Getty Center Professional Development Programs: The California, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas Regional Institutes; And The Cranbrook, Kutztown, And Hands And Minds Seminars For Art Specialists 1995 by Brent Wilson, Blanche Rubin with Miki Baumgarten, Bonne Mac Donald, Billie Sessions, Pamela Taylor and Mary Tien.

A newspaper clipping featuring an snippet in the left side on the Annenberg Foundation, a foundation based in St. Davis, Pennsylvania, has announced their latest series of grants towards arts education. A $4.3 million challenge grant to six regional institutes to show how the arts can boost student academic achievements.

Photocopy of a list of Professional Development Activities. The dates extend from June to November and next to each set of days is a note of the institutions, purpose and location for each event.

A letter from the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts consortia to Leilani Lattin Duke, Director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and Vicki Rosenberg, program officer. The letter is an expression of concern from the consortia who met prior to discuss the recent evaluation of the Institute. In the letter they have listed several of their concerns about the process and reporting methods used by the Center to evaluate. While the Institute understands the need to evaluate their efforts it has questioned their continued partnership and the entire collaboration and its impact for the future. The letter was signed by, Jack Davis, William McCarter, Kathy Walsh-Piper, Gail Davitt, Aileen Horan, Allison Perkins, Linda Powell and Maria Teresa Garcia-Pedroche.

A letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis/William McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, and their consortia, Gail Davitt, Aileen Horan, Maria Teresa Garcia-Pedroche, Allison Perkins, Linda Powell and Kathy Walsh-Piper. The letter is in regards to the issues raised by NTIEVA about the recent evaluation report. Duke said that her and Rosenberg appreciated their concerns about the results of the recent evaluation of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts but to allow some time to address and consider their recommendations.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on how art is an essential element of education. Jay Gates, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art is contributing in a collaborative project to build art education computer software for schoolchildren. The collaborative effort is a funded project by the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation where the Dallas Museum of Art will be working with the University of North Texas to develop this program.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Janice Hobbs, a principal at Eastern Hills Elementary School, receiving an award this summer at the Sixth Annual Getty Art Institute for Disciplined Based Art Education. Mrs. Hobbs is credited for encouraging teachers and students to focus on integrating art into the curriculum. Eastern Hills Elementary students have attended workshops at the Amon Carter Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Art education helps students make connections and understand human commonalities.

Photocopy of a memo from Julie Abel, program associate of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Grant Directors. The memo is in regards to the key points and recommendations from the September 20, 1996 Goals 2000 Arts Educational Leadership fund meeting. Attached with the memo is the meeting report.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on art and art education in the school system. Representatives of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts presented a full-day seminar at Baylor University on "Bridging the Curriculum through Art," to teach the correlation between the visual arts and the state-mandated Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, TAAS examinations.

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 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 newspaper clipping featuring an article on Denton youths travelling downtown to see "the world." The students will be visiting an exhibition, "Walk Like an Egyptian," at the Greater Denton Arts Council's summer arts camp, where they will visit ancient civilizations of the Mayans, Egyptians and Greeks. The students will learn the secrets of an Egyptian tomb, write their names in hieroglyphics and create a Greek amphora bottle.