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10 Things You Can Do To Make Our Schools Better (open access)

10 Things You Can Do To Make Our Schools Better

Photocopy of a clipping from Parade Magazine, featuring an article titled, "10 Things You Can Do To Make Our Schools Better," by Vartan Gregorian. Gregorian will become the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in June, 1997. Gregorian is one of the leading authorities on education in America and has written a list about some things concerned individuals can do right now to better the schools and education in the area. The 10th thing on Gregorian's list is to restore the arts as a major element in education. "We've made a tremendous mistake in diminishing or eliminating art, music and dance as fluff or frills."
Date: March 23, 1997
Creator: Gregorian, Vartain
System: The UNT Digital Library
Action is key to Gates (open access)

Action is key to Gates

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Jay Rodney Gates, the Dallas Museum of Art art director who has just sold his house in Seattle and has purchased a new home in Dallas to begin his job at the museum. His first priority is to get the Hamon building open, quoting "You only get to do it once."
Date: August 1, 1993
Creator: Kutner, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adults who color show their creativity (open access)

Adults who color show their creativity

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on coloring and adults who color as a small muscle control exercise or just for fun pastime. Tracy Moran, a crayola spokeswoman said, "Coloring isn't just for kids anymore." Dr. William McCarter, art professor at the University of North Texas says, "the use of crayons as an adult medium isn't new." The number of adults using crayons is part of a trend on being involved in some form of self-expression.
Date: July 3, 1995
Creator: The Dallas Morning News
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Adults who color show their creativity, July 3, 1995] (open access)

[Adults who color show their creativity, July 3, 1995]

An article written by free-lancer Angela Genusa for The Dallas Morning News about adults who use crayons to color and make art as well as the history of crayon use.
Date: July 3, 1995
Creator: Genusa, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Advertisement: Save the D.C. health benefits act] (open access)

[Advertisement: Save the D.C. health benefits act]

Advertisement appealing for support of the D.C. health benefits act that extends benefits to the domestic partners of city workers.
Date: 1992
Creator: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Affirmation's gathering begins tonight in Dallas (open access)

Affirmation's gathering begins tonight in Dallas

Photocopy of a newspaper article discussing the 20th anniversary of the Affirmation group (United Methodists for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns) and their work to change the official United Methodist church's stance on homosexuality.
Date: April 21, 1995
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amon Carter director resigns after 15 years (open access)

Amon Carter director resigns after 15 years

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Jan Muhlert, former director of the Amon Carter Museum of fifteen years, resigning for personal reasons. Muhlert said that it was time to step back, to catch up on reading, writing and to travel. Board president Ruth Carter Stevenson praised Muhlert contributions to the museum.
Date: [1995..]
Creator: Kutner, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Animation society comes to life at UNT (open access)

Animation society comes to life at UNT

A clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, written by Carol Lewis, titled "Animation society comes to life at UNT." The article is written about Jeremy Roden, and his colleagues at the University of North Texas learned that they could not earn a degree in computer animation from the school and decided to form the Absolutely No Degree Computer Animation Society and begun practicing animation at the computers at the School of Visual Arts Building. This news clipping was sent to Russ Pensyl, and William McCarter from Jack Davis.
Date: February 14, 1998
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram & Lewis, Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annenberg Foundation challange grant sends $1.43 million to UNT arts education group (open access)

Annenberg Foundation challange grant sends $1.43 million to UNT arts education group

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.
Date: June 1996
Creator: LeMay, Nancy Cochran
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Annenberg Foundation grants to arts education] (open access)

[The Annenberg Foundation grants to arts education]

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.
Date: May 22, 1996
Creator: Across The Nation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Reports of Foundations (open access)

Annual Reports of Foundations

A newsletter clipping, with details on the DeWitt Wallace-Redaer's Digest Fund. The purpose of the support fund is the improvement of elementary and secondary schools, encouraging school and community collaborations, and the professional development of educators. Another clipping is attached to the first on, "Principals As Staff Developers," John Macrostie states that inservice education can no longer consist of irregular episodic workshops but must be continuous.
Date: June 28, 1994
Creator: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Area art awakening becomes elementary (open access)

Area art awakening becomes elementary

A newspaper clipping, published by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, features an article with the headline, "Area art awakening becomes elementary," by Yamil Berard. Educators say the art and humanities exposure will enrich the academic experience and help students become more articulate. Elementary schools across the metroplex have been selected to share in a five-year, $15 million grant for intensive art programs. As part of the grant the metroplex schools will be teamed with an art professor from the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas. This clipping was faxed to William McCarter and Suzanne Killeen from Jack Davis.
Date: March 19, 1997
Creator: Berard, Yamil
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Arlington Police Chaplain Harold Elliott comforting Ernestine Henderson, newspaper clipping, 1991] (open access)

[Arlington Police Chaplain Harold Elliott comforting Ernestine Henderson, newspaper clipping, 1991]

Photograph of Police Chaplain Harold Elliott comforting Ernestine Henderson, the mother of a drowning victim at Lake Arlington, when he told her that her son's body had been found. It was taken by Allen Rose from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, July 12, 1991.
Date: July 25, 1991
Creator: Rose, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Arlington Police Chaplain Harold Elliott holding a photograph taken at the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (newspaper clipping, 1996)] (open access)

[Arlington Police Chaplain Harold Elliott holding a photograph taken at the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (newspaper clipping, 1996)]

Photograph of Chaplain Harold Elliott holding a large color photograph that shows him walking past the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The bomb completely demolished one side of the building and was the worst terrorist attack at the time on U.S. soil. Chaplain Elliott was called to the city to assist as a chaplain to the other chaplains and later, to councel state, federal and local rescue and recovery workers. The caption of the clipping from the Fort Worth Star Telegram reads "Helping Hand. Police Department's chaplain serves many roles." The hand written date on the article is 8/96 but the bombing occured April 19, 1995.
Date: August 1996
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Arlington Police Museum. Newspaper picture of Russian police officer Oleg Orjekhouski touring the Harold K. Elliott Police Museum in Arlington] (open access)

[Arlington Police Museum. Newspaper picture of Russian police officer Oleg Orjekhouski touring the Harold K. Elliott Police Museum in Arlington]

Photograph of a newspaper clipping with a photograph taken by Carolyn Bauman from the Fort Worth Star Telegram April 23, 1992 of Moscow police officer Oleg Orjekhouski. The caption beneath the picture says "Moscow police officer Oleg Orjekhouski looks at one of the displays at the Arlington Police Museum." The display is of a mannequin wearing a motorcycle police uniform. A United States Flag is in the background. Officer Orjekhouski is wearing his uniform.
Date: April 23, 1992
Creator: Bauman, Carolyn
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Arlington Police Officer Terry Lewis's casket carried by the Honor Guard during his funeral, newspaper clipping, 1992] (open access)

[Arlington Police Officer Terry Lewis's casket carried by the Honor Guard during his funeral, newspaper clipping, 1992]

Photograph of Arlington Police Honor Guard carrying Officer Terry Lewis's casket during his funeral. Officer Lewis was killed in the line of duty by vehicular assault on October 9, 1992. It was taken by Gregg Ellman October 13, 1992 for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Date: October 13, 1992
Creator: Ellman, Gregg
System: The Portal to Texas History
Art as education: Reproductions of artwork go to classrooms (open access)

Art as education: Reproductions of artwork go to classrooms

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation gifting almost $80,000 to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to reproduce famous artwork that are shown in the Dallas and Fort Worth Museums. The money will go directly to producing twenty-five laminated, 18 x 24 foot poster reproductions and is part of the national movement to blend aesthetics, history, criticism and technique in the teaching of arts.
Date: February 26, 1993
Creator: Releford, Michelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art Award at Eastern Hills Elementary (open access)

Art Award at Eastern Hills Elementary

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on students at Eastern Hills Elementary. Jason Ryan, a student at Eastern Hill, won first place in the Crayola Dream Maker's Art Show. His picture was voted best-of-show by faculty members, selected from around six hundred students artwork and writings. Ryan's artwork was shown at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art before being sent to Austin where it ill be exhibited at the State Capitol for six months.
Date: August 31, 1995
Creator: Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art council names new directors (open access)

Art council names new directors

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Greater Denton Arts Council unanimously naming Janet Harreld, an administrator of Indiana chamber music association, as its new executive director. Ms. Harreld hopes to expand arts-in-education programs and events that will draw the interest of people who normally don't patronize galleries or performance halls.
Date: April 6, 1994
Creator: Lennerts, Tim
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Art Education, Newspaper clippings] (open access)

[Art Education, Newspaper clippings]

Two newspaper clippings from the Denton Record-Chronicle, the first clipping is a snippet about the University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts with Jack Davis, Dean of the college. The snippet shows a photograph of the college building, a map of where the building is located on campus and a photograph of Dean Davis. The second newspaper clipping features an article, "Students combine art, academics," where students work on art education projects developed by UNT faculty.
Date: October 30, 1994
Creator: Denton Record-Chronile
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art Festival attracts 100 educators to UNT (open access)

Art Festival attracts 100 educators to UNT

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the Multi-cultural art festival at the University of North Texas, with more than one-hundred art educators attending the festivities. The program featured lectures in the morning and in the afternoon focus on modern and contemporary art, the emphasis on art education is to correlate it with the academic curriculum to make education stronger.
Date: February 3, 1991
Creator: Releford, Michelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Art grant] (open access)

[Art grant]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts receiving a grant to establish a new art specialty program. The Getty center for Education awarded the institute $62,5000 to establish a National Center for Art Museum / School Collaborations. The center will focus on establishing collaborative programs between art museums, public schools and universities. Nancy Berry, assistant professor of Art History and Art Education at UNT has been named director of the new center.
Date: January 15, 1995
Creator: Washington, April
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Art group receives new grant] (open access)

[Art group receives new grant]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article writing about the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation awarding a three-year grant of $225,000 to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas. The purpose of NTIEVA is to establish discipline-based art education in public schools to teach children to talk about art critically as founded by Jack Davis and William McCarter, co-directors.
Date: June 11, 1992
Creator: The Post-Signal
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art group receives new grant (open access)

Art group receives new grant

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation granting $225,000 award to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas. The rest of the article goes into details of how the grant money will be divided and the goals of the institute.
Date: June 11, 1992
Creator: The Post-Signal
System: The UNT Digital Library