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[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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Dallas foundation gives $600,000 to UT

Description: A newspaper article published in The Dallas Morning News, about the Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation giving $600,000 for the first endowed faculty chairs in the University of Texas at Austin's College of Fine Arts.
Date: October 9, 1986
Creator: Dallas Morning News
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Foundation makes arts gifts

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring a snippet on Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation gifting $79,855 to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The money will be used to produce prints of the great works of art in Dallas and Fort Worth museums to be used as educational tools in schools.
Date: March 9, 1993
Creator: The Dallas Morning News
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Kids critics

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article about teacher, Georiga Blaydes and her fifth-grade class room of students undergoing the experimental discipline-based art education program. The students have become as serious about art criticism as professional critics. Changes in art curriculum are being implemented statewide as part of a package of sweeping education reforms approved by the Texas Legislature in 1981. In the article, Ms. Blaydes has been working with the University of North … more
Date: October 9, 1989
Creator: Gilberto, Julie
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

New standards being drawn up for art classes

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on discipline-based art education sweeping over public school curriculum's. A coalition of art education associations, which include representatives of visual arts, music and dance, are working on the national standards that would ensure all students get a grounding in fine arts. Art education needs to bee seen as a basic and not a frill.
Date: March 9, 1993
Creator: Holloway, Karel
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

Threat of funding cuts forces advocates to get crafty about preserving programs in schools

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article written about art and art education in the public school system and if art education in important to the curriculum. The underlying factors that control it are funding and whether or not it is considered a priority or a luxury. Private art groups have stepped in to ensure that the arts maintain their place in child's education. Entities such as the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts funded mostly from private sectors who provided mon… more
Date: April 9, 1995
Creator: Herrera, Clara G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

UNT graduate students take center stage

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Bader Alruwais of Saudi Arabia, a two-year resident of Denton, receiving the Prince Bandar ibn Sultan Annual Award for Cultural and Scientific Research. Mr. Alruwais is a doctoral student in the Art Education Program at the University of North Texas, he won the award and a cash prize for $3,000, for his proposal of an innovative approach to teaching art inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 9, 1995
Creator: Washington, April
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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