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[Clipping: Indio aviatrix puts stamp on history]

Description: Newspaper clipping with articles about how Jacqueline Cochran became interested in flying and her aviation career.
Date: February 24, 1996
Creator: Curran, Jan
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Early aviatrix's heart is up in the clouds]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP Fran Sargent and her career in aviation. Other articles and advertisements are included on the back of each clipping.
Date: February 11, 1996
Creator: Wittman, Susan
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

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

Description: 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 Tele… more
Date: August 1996
Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Clipping: Author Ruth Winegarten, educators honored with reception]

Description: Photocopy of a newspaper article from The San Antonio Informer titled "Author Ruthe Winegarten, educators honored with reception." Includes photographs and handwritten notes.
Date: October 31, 1996
Creator: The San Antonio Informer.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Indio aviatrix put stamp on history]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the Daily Sun, "Indio aviatrix puts stamp on history" by Jan Curran discussing the new Jacqueline Cochran Pioneer Pilot stamp that will be issues in a public ceremony on March 9, 1996 in Indio, California. It also discusses Cochran's career and accomplishments.
Date: February 24, 1996
Creator: Curran, Jan
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women discuss roles in cultures]

Description: Newspaper clipping featuring article, "Women discuss roles in cultures," by Alicia Miller for the North Texas Daily published Tuesday, November 19, 1996. The article is in regards to women's roles as well as discussing women's equal pay and equal opportunities.
Date: November 19, 1996
Creator: Miller, Alicia
Location: 33.207488 -97.152586
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Role of Art in Higher Level Thinking]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the upcoming FORTE meeting, October 9th where guest speaker Dr. William McCarter will be discussing "The Role of Art in Higher Level Thinking." FROTE is an alliance of parents, teachers, students, administrators and board trustees dedicated to enhancing education for gifted and high achieving students.
Date: October 6, 1996
Creator: Grapevine Sun
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Artist at work

Description: 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
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

Links with other institutions benefit university

Description: A newsletter clipping featuring collaborations that the University of North Texas has been participating in. One such example is UNT"s collaboration with educational institutions, including the highly regarded initiative with public schools and art museums, the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.
Date: May 1996
Creator: In House
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

NT honors art director with fine arts doctorate

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, by presenting him with an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. Dr. Pillsbury received his art history degree from Yale University and his doctorate from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, but his outstanding support of the arts in North Texas deserved him recognition.
Date: March 28, 1996
Creator: Connolly, Christine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

An Assessment Strategy: Fun & Games

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Annenberg Foundation grants to arts education]

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Art is an essential element of education

Description: 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.
Date: November 4, 1996
Creator: Cullum, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

EH Elementary Teachers Receive Awards & Training

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Janice Hobbs, a principal at Eastern Hills Elementary School, receiving an award this summer at the Sixth Annual Getty Art Institute for Disciplined Based Art Education. Mrs. Hobbs is credited for encouraging teachers and students to focus on integrating art into the curriculum. Eastern Hills Elementary students have attended workshops at the Amon Carter Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Ar… more
Date: August 29, 1996
Creator: Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Changing views on teaching

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on art and art education in the school system. Representatives of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts presented a full-day seminar at Baylor University on "Bridging the Curriculum through Art," to teach the correlation between the visual arts and the state-mandated Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, TAAS examinations.
Date: August 24, 1996
Creator: Sansbury, Jen
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

North Texas institute for visual arts garners a grant

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.
Date: April 24, 1996
Creator: Webb, Jay
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Visual arts institute receives grant

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.
Date: April 20, 1996
Creator: Elliott, Julie
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Summer arts camp offers kids creative diversions

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Denton youths travelling downtown to see "the world." The students will be visiting an exhibition, "Walk Like an Egyptian," at the Greater Denton Arts Council's summer arts camp, where they will visit ancient civilizations of the Mayans, Egyptians and Greeks. The students will learn the secrets of an Egyptian tomb, write their names in hieroglyphics and create a Greek amphora bottle.
Date: June 9, 1996
Creator: Lissberger, Lenni
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[In House, Janurary 1996]

Description: A newsletter published by the University of North Texas, titled "In House." The first page features information on upcoming lectures by professors and educators. Dr. William McCarter, regents professor of visual arts and co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts along with Nancy Walkup will be giving their lecture "Utilizing Journalistic Art Criticism in the Secondary Art Classroom" and "Visualizing Art History Through Time Lines and Conceptual Diagrams," November 9t… more
Date: January 1996
Creator: In House
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Her art comes from the heart

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Beverly Fletcher, a women who claims partial responsibility for the artistic achievement in the Fort Worth school district and the national recognition such achievement as received. Fletcher believes that intensive exposure to the art has helped many school children excel in their education, citing that test scores at Greenbriar Elementary School after three years of disciplined-based art education, has moved up from 47th place in the district to the… more
Date: [1996..]
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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