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[Acceptance Letter to Marcus Fellowship Program]

Description: A letter from Beth Reese to the Marcus Fellowship Program, expressing sincere appreciation and formally accepting the offered fellowship opportunity. Beth shares her enthusiasm and gratitude for being selected, setting the tone for a collaborative and enriching experience within the program.
Date: February 20, 1996
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Big grant Boost arts

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Denton Record-Chronicle, October 20, 1992]

Description: A clipping from the Denton Record-Chronicle about a teleconference with panelists from NTIEVA and Prairie Visions: The Nebraska Consortium for Discipline-based Art Education. They are hosting it to promote the school programs and raise funds.
Date: October 20, 1992
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Foreign art educators visit NT

Description: A newspaper clipping, published by The North Texas Daily, features an article with the headline, "Foreign art educators visit NT." Swedish art educators from the Modern Museum in Stockholm visited North Texas to learn about reforming education in and through the arts. The Swedish educators visited the offices of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to learning about their program, Transforming Education through the Arts Challenge. Project Coordinator, Pam Stephens said that th… more
Date: October 20, 1998
Creator: Jacobson, Tesha
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Images of L.A.'s Real Treasure

Description: A newspaper clipping on the architecture in Los Angeles and how sometimes the buildings are used as links to the past. As part of "Mapping Boyle Heights," a Getty Research Institute endeavor, students are studying the cultures that were one practiced but have since disappeared from the communities.
Date: July 20, 1997
Creator: Los Angeles Times
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Instructor named art educator of year

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter being honored by the Texas Art Education Association, TAEAm as "Higher Education Art Educator of the Year." McCarter has spent his lifetime teaching people how to look beyond the pictures of art to the impressions it leaves, publishing his book "Living with Art: A Study Guide," which has been credited with redirecting and reshaping how art appreciation courses should be taught.
Date: November 20, 1994
Creator: Washington, April M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Anne Lindsey to Jack Davis, December 20, 1991]

Description: Letter from Anne Lindsey, Director of the Southeast Institute for Education in the Visual Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The letter is in regards to prior correspondence where Davis requested from the regional institute directors to send him issues for discussion at the next meeting.
Date: December 20, 1991
Creator: Lindsey, Anne
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis to Marvin E. Edwards, September 20, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Marvin E. Edwards, Superintendent of Dallas ISD. Reviewing how successful the 1991 Summer Institute was and how the implementation of the discipline-based art education is off to a good start. McCarter and Davis continue to say that they are already beginning preparations for the 1992 Summer Institute as they have a report due to the Getty Center for Education in t… more
Date: September 20, 1991
Creator: McCarter, William & Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis to Ronald Caloss, September 10, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Ronald Caloss, Superintendent of Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. In regards to the success of the 1991 summer institute and its implementation for the school year being off to a good start. The six teams of teachers from HEB elementary schools worked hard during the two weeks and received many hours of intensive preparation in the DBAE program. In order for the Getty Ins… more
Date: September 20, 1991
Creator: McCarter, William & Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis to Yvonne Ewell, Chad Woolery, Jay Gates, Eva Orr and Jan Schronk, September 20, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Yvonne Ewell, Chad Woolery, Jay Gates, Eva Orr and Jan Schronk. In regards to the panel discussion, "Administrators as Leaders in the Arts," which has been scheduled for October 1, 1994 in the Dallas Convention Center. The panel discussion will focus on the significance of the arts in the schools, emphasizing that the arts are part of the Goal 2000, the national st… more
Date: September 20, 1994
Creator: McCarter, William & Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bill McCarter to John Grisby, December 20, 1995]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to John Grisby, Superintendent of Pilot Point ISD. Discussing the future relationship with Pilot Point. Having talked with Sylvia Russel, McCarter has come to an understanding that there are existing problems that threaten the continuation of Pilot Point as a consortium of NTIEVA, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The rapid growth of the district has left little… more
Date: December 20, 1995
Creator: McCarter, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Charles C. Tandy to Bill McCarter, February 20, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Charles C. Tandy, M.D., Dallas City Councilman to Bill McCarter, co-director of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Tandy thanks McCarter for the lunch tour and education as to what is happening at the University of North Texas. Tandy writes that he was impressed with the pursuit of the relationship of art to learning in elementary education, and assures McCarter that he will use his influence to enhance the opportunity to add Dallas into the i… more
Date: February 20, 1991
Creator: Tandy, Charles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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