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."

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A newspaper clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, written by staff writer, Robert Philpot, titled "Art instructors practice what they teach." The article is about educators who will be displaying their own works of art at the "1999 Teachers as Artists Exhibition." The exhibition is a join effort among the school district, the Fort Worth International Center and the Fort Worth Sister Cities International, with what hopes to be an annual event.

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 about the Pilot Point and Denton independent school districts being two in the state of Texas to be selected for the implementation of Discipline-based art education or DBAE. The five-year program, is part of the reform movement in the art world in which four basic art disciplines are integrated, art history, art criticism, art production and aesthetics. Another article features is "Denton school participates in art program," which describes the success of the children learning with the discipline art program.

A newspaper clipping of a quotation by Dr. William McCarter, professor art at the University of North Texas. "Art opens doors to different cultures and varieties of value systems that exist around the world."

A newspaper clipping featuring a snippet on the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation gifting almost $80,000 in grant money to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts for the reproduction of artworks from the Dallas and Fort Worth museums. The prints will be used as educational tools in local schools.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts concluding their three-week summer institute on instructing elementary teachers on how to apply art to education. The co-directors of the institute, Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, hope to achieve a success rate of children who are more knowledge in art and art criticism.