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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[An eye for art]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and the students affected by the program. In the Plano public schools under NTIEVA discipline-based art education program that has been implemented, children are surpassing the days of learning color and form and are being education on how to talk about famous and not-famous paintings critically. The program within the classroom has seen dramatic improvement in reading, writing, vocabulary… more
Date: October 10, 1991
Creator: Plano Star Courier
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Gee teacher heads new art program

Description: A newspaper clipping from Pilot Point ISD featuring an article about Sylvia Russell, an art teacher at Gee Junior High School, coordinating PPISD new discipline-based art education program. The program was first introduced to kindergarten and first graders at Pilot Point Elementary School as PPISD started participating in the program with the University of North Texas and several other area districts and art galleries.
Date: November 1990
Creator: Pilot Point Independent School Distrct
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Update, February 11, 1991]

Description: A newsletter clipping with bulletin information about the art happenings at the University of North Texas, information about the progress with the program North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and with the art faculty involved at the school, the program and the Denton community. This newsletter informs about William McCarter presenting "Human Perception of Space" as the keynote address at the Tennessee Art Education Association Conference. Cassandra Broadus and McCarter conduct… more
Date: February 11, 1991
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Elementary teacher recognized

Description: An article written by Lucinda Breeding, staff writer for the Denton Record-Chronicle, titled "Elementary teacher recognized." The article is written about art teacher Berniece Patterson who started teaching her students "one-point perspective," an exercise where they draw a city street in relations to the horizon. Patterson teachers discipline-based art education, a philosophy that sees art as a gateway to high-level thinking.
Date: unknown
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
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

North Texas receives art education grant

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the University of North Texas receiving a five-year, $625,000 matching grant from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts to create a visual arts education regional institute. Collaborating with UNT on the project are several school districts, museums and art councils.
Date: [1992,1993]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Locals visit Getty Center

Description: A newspaper clipping on the newly constructed Getty Center museum and during the opening in December, Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis were there. McCarter and Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, visited the Getty Center because of the institutions's ties to UNT, NTIEVA is funded in part by the Getty Education.
Date: February 8, 1998
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Institute set to teach

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the summer institute hosted by the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The institute is a two-week program designed to provide training for the use of art education for school districts educators. The primary goal of the summer institute is to implement discipline-based art education into the participating districts, DBAE, is an approach to learning in the art that combines art production, criticism, aesthetics and art history.
Date: June 16, 1994
Creator: Holden, Dawn
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Discipline-Based Art Education

Description: A newsletter, published by the Texas Commission On The Arts, featuring an article on discipline-based art education. The North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts is one of six regional consortia established by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts to research and develop ways to implement art education into the public school systems. The purpose of DBAE is to train teachers and educators to incorporate art and art education into the regular core curriculum. The institute's ma… more
Date: [1994..]
Creator: Texas Commission On The Arts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

New Chief for the Getty

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Barry Munitz, California State University Chanceller, who has accepted his new position as president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, a private foundation devoted to the visual arts, the humanities and the organizations that run the J. Paul Getty Trust Museum. Munitz is set to take over for Harold M. Williams.
Date: July 18, 1997
Creator: Vogel, Carl
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

[Art talk]

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

CSu Chancellor Munitz to Lead the Getty Trust

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on California State University chancellor Barry Munitz will leave the university and accept his new position as president and chief executive of the $4.2 billion J. Paul Getty Trust. Munitz will take the position over from Harold M. Williams who is said to retire on his 70th birthday just three-weeks after the opening of the Getty Center in Brentwood.
Date: July 18, 1997
Creator: Muchnic, Suzanne & Wallace, Amy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Plano picks new school chief

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Plano ISD naming James E. Surratt the districts new superintendent. Dr. Surratt will replace Dr. H. Wayne Hendrick who became Plano's superintendent in 1961.
Date: [1992,1993]
Creator: Freedenthal, Stacey
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Learning On the Job

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on administrators in San Francisco who took inventory on the school system's professional-development offerings and how they're spending close to $18 million a year on programs and projects. However, without high-quality professional development the push to replicate effective reform strategies can be doomed. The rest of the article details about changes in the public system to conserve money but maintain their professional development programs.
Date: February 15, 1995
Creator: Bradley, Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Graduate art education program cited as "tops" in North America

Description: A clipping from the newsletter In House, University of North Texas, written by Kelley Reese, titled "Graduate art education program cited as "tops" in North America. The article relays that a study conducted by Stanford University and Florida State University recently examined and critiqued the graduate level programs in art education in the United States and Canada and the University of North Texas was cited among the best.
Date: March 1999
Creator: In House
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Art Education named William McCarter as Higher Education Art Educator of the Year]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article about William McCarter, regents professor at the University of North Texas, and co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, being named by the Texas Art Education Association as the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year for 1994.
Date: December 27, 1994
Creator: The Dallas Morning News
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Steve Allen to open arts center, September 26, 1992

Description: A photocopy of a newspaper clipping, that reads "Steve Allen to open arts center." The clipping shows illustrations of the building and floor plan of the Walton Arts Center, a performing arts center located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Walton Arts Center is named after the Walton family, because of funds donated to complete construction, and its grand opening concert was performed by composer and musician, Steven Allen. These pages belonged to the desk of Jack Davis, William McCarter, as they… more
Date: September 26, 1992
Creator: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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

[William McCarter, Arts Educator]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter, Art Professor at the University of North Texas. McCarter received his doctor of education in 1968 - the same year he came to teach at UNT, in 1989 he and his colleague Dr. Jack Davis, co-directed North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts funded by the Getty Center. McCarter states he acts like a broker for the museums, schools and universities, bringing them together to teach them how to educate young children.
Date: January 30, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

10 Things You Can Do To Make Our Schools Better

Description: Photocopy of a clipping from Parade Magazine, featuring an article titled, "10 Things You Can Do To Make Our Schools Better," by Vartan Gregorian. Gregorian will become the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in June, 1997. Gregorian is one of the leading authorities on education in America and has written a list about some things concerned individuals can do right now to better the schools and education in the area. The 10th thing on Gregorian's list is to restore the arts as a m… more
Date: March 23, 1997
Creator: Gregorian, Vartain
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

Grant makes art, computer project possible

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on a collaborative educational project that will provide school children with a new view to the world of art and computers, thanks to grants from the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation. The grant support a join art education project by the UNT School of Visual arts, UNT's North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Date: March 12, 1995
Creator: Washington, April
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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