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A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose of this study was to determine the trends that are developing in the architecture of the civic, commercial, and religious buildings in Fort Worth, Texas. This will be shown by an analysis of what the author considers to be the best examples of buildings constructed in Fort Worth during the past ten years.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Curtsinger, J. Dallas.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Textured Collage for Blind Elementary Children (open access)

Textured Collage for Blind Elementary Children

This thesis describes experimental work done in art education with a small group of children that met each Saturday at Dallas Services for the Blind over a two year period. The research used textured collage art projects as the medium of artistic expression for the children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Brewer, Paula T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Audio-Visual Presentation Designed for Motivation of Certain Elementary Art Students (open access)

An Audio-Visual Presentation Designed for Motivation of Certain Elementary Art Students

In order to create a motivational device to help students become more aware of their surroundings, an audio-visual project was chosen as the most effective means of reaching intermediate grade children in a low socio-ecomonic area. Developing an effective sett of motivational experiences for enriching learning through seeing in the art education program was the task undertaken in this study.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Harris, Jan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kiln-Fired Glass in the Junior College Arts and Crafts Program (open access)

Kiln-Fired Glass in the Junior College Arts and Crafts Program

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the discovery of suitable uses for the enameling kiln in the arts and crafts program at the junior college level in the production of kiln-formed glass and the testing of methods and materials that will permit work of aesthetic merit at a nominal cost to the students and the school.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Buchanan, Robert Gordon
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Art Program Utilizing Discarded Materials in the Improvement of Interiors of Homes of Children in a Low Income Group (open access)

An Art Program Utilizing Discarded Materials in the Improvement of Interiors of Homes of Children in a Low Income Group

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of planning and carrying out an art program in which a particular group of students in a low income group, by utilizing discarded and inexpensive materials, can create useful and satisfying objects for the improvement of their home interiors.
Date: January 1960
Creator: Abram, W. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children's Preferences for Reproductions of Masterpieces in Grades V through VIII of a Dallas Public School (open access)

Children's Preferences for Reproductions of Masterpieces in Grades V through VIII of a Dallas Public School

This paper explores what kinds of paintings do children of a particular locale really like and what are some of the reasons for their choices. This information could be of use in planning methods of developing and nurturing aesthetic experiences through more wisely chosen reproductions of masterpieces of paintings.
Date: January 1962
Creator: Waldon, Addye B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparation of the Weatherford, Texas, Elementary Teacher to Teach Art in the Self-Contained Classroom (open access)

Preparation of the Weatherford, Texas, Elementary Teacher to Teach Art in the Self-Contained Classroom

This paper is concerned with the preparation needed by the elementary classroom teacher to teach art in the self-contained classroom and with improving the program of art education in the elementary schools of the Weatherford Independent School District of Weatherford, Texas.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Law, Frances B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paper as a Visual and Tactile Organizational Material for Use on Schoolroom Bulletin Boards (open access)

Paper as a Visual and Tactile Organizational Material for Use on Schoolroom Bulletin Boards

The purpose of this thesis is to show the useful characteristics of a wide variety of papers as applied to the preparation of a tactile and visual organization on a number of wallboards. It is hoped the wide variety of papers and techniques used will be inspirational to other teachers when creatively planning their own designs using paper as their art medium.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Rodgers, Alice Louise
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creative Stitchery in the Art Program of the Dallas Independent School District (open access)

Creative Stitchery in the Art Program of the Dallas Independent School District

The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent creative stitchery is used in the art program of the Dallas Independent School District, when it is found to be most valuable, and what limitations it is found to have.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Reeves, Wilma Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
The School Stage as a Laboratory for Teaching Certain Aspects of Color Theory (open access)

The School Stage as a Laboratory for Teaching Certain Aspects of Color Theory

It is the purpose of this study to present three units for the instruction of certain aspects of color by using the techniques of audio-visual education which utilize the school stage as a laboratory. The study demonstrates how a stage and its apparatus become an audio-visual tool that the teacher may not hope to duplicate in the classroom.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Barker, Edwin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of an Art Educational Film as a Teaching Tool (open access)

The Effectiveness of an Art Educational Film as a Teaching Tool

It is the purpose of this study to test whether or not any learning does occur during the viewing of an art educational film. In order to examine this learning, an art educational film was developed and tested at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Robinson, Ann, M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Art 135-136, Foundations of Art, on Design Judgment of Elementary Education Majors at North Texas State University (open access)

The Effect of Art 135-136, Foundations of Art, on Design Judgment of Elementary Education Majors at North Texas State University

This paper is a report of research at North Texas State University concerning the effect of Art 135-136 on the design judgment of elementary education majors. It describes the measurement of the level of design judgments of elementary education majors who have completed the course and those who have not.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Smith, Dana F. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ash Glazes and the Effect of Colorants and Firing Conditions: Volume 1. Text (open access)

Ash Glazes and the Effect of Colorants and Firing Conditions: Volume 1. Text

The study being undertaken was to ascertain the effect or effects of different firing conditions and colorants on glazes composed of wood ash from two trees indigenous to Texas.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Jones, James Denny
System: The UNT Digital Library