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Art Student Melinda Mayer Awarded Doctoral Fellowship (open access)

Art Student Melinda Mayer Awarded Doctoral Fellowship

A newsletter clipping featuring an article on Melinda Mayer, a Ph.D. candidate in the art education program being awarded a fellowship in the field of visual arts education by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The fellowships provide support to emerging scholars who will shape the future of art education.
Date: [1996..]
Creator: Penn State's College of Arts architecture
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Art talk] (open access)

[Art talk]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Sharon Warwick, art teacher at Borman Elementary School, being a feature speaker at the Dallas Museum of Art to discuss how growing up near the El Paso border and experiences influence her work.
Date: January 29, 1992
Creator: Martinez, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Article about schools involved in projects and activities, 1995] (open access)

[Article about schools involved in projects and activities, 1995]

An article covering updates, achievements, and registration information for the Northwest, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, Grapevine-Colleyville school districts as well as from Glenview Christian School, and Treetops School International. Featured in the top-right are the Grapevine Junior High School freshmen cheerleaders.
Date: 1995~
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artist at work (open access)

Artist at work

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.
Date: May 15, 1996
Creator: Ludlum, Barron
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Artist Emily Jennings teaching first-graders art] (open access)

[Artist Emily Jennings teaching first-graders art]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on artist Emily Jennings teaching a class of first-graders art. The Abilene school district four years ago held an artist residency post with Jennings filling the position where she taught elementary school children art. Jennings role within the school district was boost the elementary school's emphasis on the arts and the success of the program allowed the district to keep Jennings on as an art educator.
Date: March 22, 1993
Creator: Wilson, Anthony
System: The UNT Digital Library
The arts: Children need studies that enrich (open access)

The arts: Children need studies that enrich

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the education within the public schools, with the arts in question. Children deprived of art are just as deficient in their education as those who are ignorant in math, science and history. Many administrative officials believe that arts and arts education are fluff and use their budgeting elsewhere. However, many organizations in Texas strive to highlight the importance of art and art education by conducting studies and research.
Date: February 12, 1993
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arts council awards grants (open access)

Arts council awards grants

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about The Greater Denton Arts Council awarding $17,400 in grants to twelve Denton arts organizations. Following is a list of the twelve organizations and the amount of money received from the Greater Arts Council. Among the twelve is the Department of Arts at the University of North Texas for $750 for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.
Date: 1990
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arts council's executive director resigns (open access)

Arts council's executive director resigns

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Greater Denton Arts Council asking Janet Harreld, the executive director, to resign from her position after one year. GDAC president, Roni Beasley, said that Harreld resigned for personal reasons, however, Harreld said the board asked her to resign because of philosophical and managerial differences and did not give an elaborate explanation.
Date: April 6, 1995
Creator: DeLeon, Jessica
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Arts & Entertainment, April 9, 1995] (open access)

[Arts & Entertainment, April 9, 1995]

A clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Arts & Entertainment section. The article features the Barton Hill Elementary School and the teacher Carolyn Sherburn and covers the topic of funding cuts to the arts.
Date: April 9, 1995
Creator: Fort worth Star-Telegram
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 1995] (open access)

[Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 1995]

A clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Arts & Entertainment section. It covers an upcoming movie on KERA and a student learning from Ron Tomlinson, a painter, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Date: April 13, 1995
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
System: The UNT Digital Library
["Arts" newspaper clipping] (open access)

["Arts" newspaper clipping]

A scanned newspaper clipping, featuring an article about the arts. Thirty-six U.S. schools, including Brook Elementary School in Bedford, will share a five-year, $15 million dollar grant for intensive arts program. The goal of the Arts Partner Schools effort, sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation, the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the National Arts Education consortium, is to measure the academic performance of the students at these thirty-six schools. The grant will pay to train their teachers and to purchase new materials.
Date: [1990..]
Creator: Deller, Martha
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Artsy award] (open access)

[Artsy award]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on McNair Elementary School being one of twenty-one schools in the United States to have earned the program standard award from the National Art Education Association, NAEA, the award being the highest honor a school visual arts program can attain.
Date: December 6, 1992
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Artwork from elementary schoolchildren on display at UNT] (open access)

[Artwork from elementary schoolchildren on display at UNT]

A newspaper clipping featuring a snippet on Denton. Artwork from elementary school children from six school districts are on display at the University of North Texas art building. The display of works of fifty-five students are sponsored by North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.
Date: [1995..]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Artworks displayed] (open access)

[Artworks displayed]

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on artwork by Pilot Point ISD schoolchildren on display at the Delta Kappa Gamma meeting held at the Woman's Club Building in Denton. Bill McCarter, of UNT, presented the program "Impact of the Area on Society: Learning About the Getty Grant," at the exhibition.
Date: September 9, 1993
Creator: The Post-Signal
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Assessment Strategy: Fun & Games (open access)

An Assessment Strategy: Fun & Games

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.
Date: October 1996
Creator: School Arts
System: The UNT Digital Library
At the Crossroads: Museum plans big changes while keeping its commitment to art (open access)

At the Crossroads: Museum plans big changes while keeping its commitment to art

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.
Date: April 24, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
At the head of its class (open access)

At the head of its class

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on children from Forest Hill Elementary School at the head of their class with high grades in arts education. 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.
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Tyson, Janet
System: The UNT Digital Library
At the head of its class (open access)

At the head of its class

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.
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
System: The UNT Digital Library
Awards presented at Honors Day, April 11 (open access)

Awards presented at Honors Day, April 11

A newsletter published by the University of North Texas, on the faculty, staff and students who have made outstanding contributions to the UNT community. They were recognized at the annual Honors Day award ceremony on April 11. Such award was given to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts co-directors Dr. Jack Davis and Dr. William McCarter, the Presiden'ts Award recognizes national contributions that have brought recongition to UNT.
Date: May 1997
Creator: University of North Texas
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Barnes Collection lectures] (open access)

[The Barnes Collection lectures]

A newsletter from In House at the University of North Texas, on the left side near the bottom of the page is a snippet of information regarding The Barnes Collection, with a quote by Dr. William McCarter, Regents Professor at UNT, "The Barnes collection was originally designed as a means of education." McCarter recently gave a lecture about the Barnes collection in conjunction with its exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum.
Date: September 1994
Creator: In House
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bedford school explores the art of learning (open access)

Bedford school explores the art of learning

An article written by A. Lee Graham, Staff Writer for the Dallas Morning News, titled "Bedford school explores the art of learning." The article is about Shady Brook Elementary school in Bedford, Texas, as one of the six North Texas schools in the program "Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge," to receive a share of the $200,000 grant funding for the next five years.
Date: April 26, 1998
Creator: Graham, A. Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Berry named art educator of year (open access)

Berry named art educator of year

A article published in In House, a University of North Texas newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2, title "Berry named art educator of year," by Nancy Cochran LeMay. The article is about Nancy Berry, an assistant professor of visual arts being named Higher Education art Educator of the Year by the Texas Art Education Association, she received the award at the association's annual conference.
Date: Autumn 1997
Creator: LeMay, Nancy Cochran
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big grant Boost arts (open access)

Big grant Boost arts

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.
Date: April 20, 1996
Creator: Huckabay, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biggers retrospective exhibit set in NTCC's Whatley Center (open access)

Biggers retrospective exhibit set in NTCC's Whatley Center

A newspaper clipping on the Northeast Texas Community College hosting a retrospective exhibition, "John Biggers: A Cultural Legacy," in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts Gallery from February 5th - 28th. John Biggers is a well respected African-American artist working in the United States, having completed two murals at Hampton University, and two at North Carolina State University.
Date: January 27, 1993
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library