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The arts: Children need studies that enrich

Description: 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

Arts council awards grants

Description: 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

Arts council's executive director resigns

Description: 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

[Arts & Entertainment, April 9, 1995]

Description: 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

[Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 1995]

Description: 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

["Arts" newspaper clipping]

Description: 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 t… more
Date: [1990..]
Creator: Deller, Martha

[Artsy award]

Description: 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

[Artwork from elementary schoolchildren on display at UNT]

Description: 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..]

[Artworks displayed]

Description: 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

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

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

Description: 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

At the head of its class

Description: 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 tha… more
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Tyson, Janet

At the head of its class

Description: 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 … more
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

[Award nomination form for Cece Cox]

Description: The Extra Mile Award nomination form recommending Cece Cox for the award by the nominator Sue Schrader, as well as newspaper clippings mentioning Cox.
Date: unknown

[Award nomination form for Dilia Loé]

Description: The Extra Mile Award nomination form recommending Dilia Loé for the award by the nominator Terry M. Stone, as well as a newspaper clipping entitled 'Emergence.'
Date: unknown

Awards presented at Honors Day, April 11

Description: 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

[Ban on Sex Acts]

Description: Photocopy of news paper articles about Judge Jerry Buchmeyer ruling that the Texas statute prohibiting same-sex intercourse as unconstitutional.
Date: August 18, 1992

[The Barnes Collection lectures]

Description: 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

Bedford school explores the art of learning

Description: 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

Berry named art educator of year

Description: 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

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

Biggers retrospective exhibit set in NTCC's Whatley Center

Description: 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
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