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[Letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter to Gene Davenport, June 19, 1992]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Gene Davenport, Superintendent of Allen Independent School District. In regards to the U.S. Department of Education efforts in the arts and that Secretary Alexander has initiated the American 2000 Arts Partnership, along with the news that USOE and the National Endowment are funding the development of World Class standards for arts education. Davis and McCarter also write that they are pleased that the Getty Center for Education in the Arts has sent, to Allen's school board president, a package of materials related to enhancing student achievements through art education. Included with the packet is a questionnaire which asks for a report of any action the board has taken in response to the guide to enhancing student achievements.
Date: June 19, 1992
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack & McCarter, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Don R. Roberts to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, October 8, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Don R. Roberts, Superintendent of Fort Worth ISD, to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, in regards to FWISD's commitment to NTIEVA. Their Associate Director, Beverly Fletcher, will contribute at least 10% of her time during the 1991 - 1992 calendar year to activities related to staff development and implementation efforts. Along with thirteen art specialists devoting a substantial amount of time toward the DBAE program.
Date: October 8, 1991
Creator: Roberts, Don R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Douglas W. Otto to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, April 15, 1996]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Douglas W. Otto, Superintendent Plano ISD, to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to Plano's commitment as a full partner in the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and their implementation of full two-week summer institute in the summer of 1996. Attached to the letter are stipend worksheets for the current income of the faculty to be involved with the program.
Date: April 15, 1996
Creator: Otto, Douglas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Nancy Reynolds to Pat Smith Hopper, July 14, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, Project Coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Pat Smith Hopper. Discussing Hopper's efforts in discipline-based art education and cultural diversity having gone over Hopper's thematic unit on "Art and Literature on Native American Sioux Culture." Reynolds invites Hopper to attend a NTIEVA seminar being held in Houston believing Hopper will find the information interesting and will consider joining their program.
Date: July 14, 1994
Creator: Reynolds, Nancy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Marvin E. Edwards to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, May 3, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Marvin E. Edwards, General Superintendent of Dallas ISD, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to NTIEVA, for extending an opportunity for Edwards employees of Dallas to attend the discipline-based art education (DBAE) workshop. Edwards writes that their program looks beneficial in expanding the teachers art strategies, however, due to budgeting concerns they are unable to participate this year but hope they will be reached out in the future.
Date: May 3, 1990
Creator: Edwards, Marvin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[RE: National Gallery Videodisc Competition, December 8, 1992]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, project coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to the NTIEVA Art Supervisors. In regards to the National Gallery Videodisc Competition, a competition that North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts had entered. Attached to the letter is a copy of the new release from the Nation Gallery in Washington, D.C. Reynolds writes that they will be one of the recipients of the American Art videodisc and that she encourages other school districts to apply as there are a number of spots still available and the Gallery has extended their deadline. Enclosed with the letter is a Call For Entry Letter from the National Gallery.
Date: December 8, 1992
Creator: Reynolds, Nancy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Patsy Sharp to Jack Davis, November 21, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Patsy Sharp to Jack Davis discussing that Charles Davidson, Whataburger's Regional Manager, forwarded a Class Acts proposal to their advertising company. Patsy writes that the Class Acts Advertising Manager, Julie Garinger, has been in contact with the advertising account for Whataburger to discuss consumer responses to the Art-O-Grams, art education newspaper series. As soon as a date is selected, Sharp will be in contact with Bill McCarter to discuss who else should attend the meeting. Copied on the letter is Bill McCarter.
Date: November 21, 1991
Creator: Sharp, Patsy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter draft from Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, October 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter draft to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, in regards to Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District's commitment to the NTIEVA program and that their Site Coordinator, Jan Schronk, will contribute a certain percentage of time during the 1992 calendar. This letter draft is created by NTIEVA and sent to their consortium districts to be filled out by the coordinator and asked to be sent back with the proper filled information.
Date: October 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Elaine Schad, December 3, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Elaine Schad, Denton Record-Chronicle. In regards to the interview Broadus had with Schad about the NTIEVA program and partnership with Pilot Point ISD. Broadus writes to Schad that NTIEVA is funded by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the University of North Texas Foundation and to mail Jack Davis for any inquiries they may have about it.
Date: December 3, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter to Chad Woolery, March 3, 1993]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Chad Woolery, Deputy Superintendent for Dallas ISD. In regards of Janice Wiggins, Visual Arts Special, Dallas Public Schools and her contract with North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, hoping that she could be under an extended contract through June 14 - 25, 1993 to finish work she has started with three of her art specialists in planning the 1993 Dallas Institute. The Dallas Institute is a complex staff development experience for classroom teachers and art specialists in the district. Included in the letter is a detailed list of Wiggin's responsibility and her expected goals. At the end of the letter Davis and McCarter are excited to consider an interactive television connection with Dallas schools on June 21, 1993 and that Dr. Wilson, cross site evaluator for the Getty Center will be observing the distance learning project.
Date: March 3, 1993
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack & McCarter, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds to Trustee of the Marcus Foundation, October 27, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to the Trustees of the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation. In regards to a project proposed by the San Antonio Museum of Art, SAMA to development a series of art reproductions and presentation for a summer institute to train teachers. McCarter and Reynolds write that they have worked with SAMA since the museum educators attended a Marcus-funded advocacy workshop and believe that their proposal is consistent and similar to NTIEVA's efforts and support their proposal.
Date: October 27, 1994
Creator: McCarter, William & Reynolds, Nancy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Pam Stephens to Russ Chapman, April 21, 1993]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Pam Stephens to Russ Chapman, Principal Lakewood Elementary School, in regards to attached content of models that details how an elementary school goes about implementing discipline-based art education. A second model has been modified for Lakewood.
Date: April 21, 1993
Creator: Geiger-Stephens, Pamela K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to James White, February 18, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to James White, Burton Hill Elementary School. In regards to her recent visitation of the elementary school and how the classrooms visited were enthusiastic. Broadus writes that she is thrilled with the eagerness the teachers have begun to implement the discipline-based art education, DBAE into their teaching. Broadus writes that she is happy that other teachers now involved with the institute program, want to implement art related programs into the curriculum and that Burton Hill is lucky to have an art specialists like Carolyn Sherburn for her contribution to the program and school. Broadus ends the letter thank White again for letting her visit Burton Hill.
Date: February 18, 1991
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Harold M. Williams to Bill McCarter, December 5, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Harold M. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, to Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Inviting McCarter to attend a special dinner for invited guests on January 12, 1995 at the National Gallery of Art. The dinner will be held in conjunction with the Getty Center's fifth national conference on arts education January 12 - 14, 1995. The purpose of this dinner is to recognize the accomplishments of McCarter's institute and the contribution to the achievements of education.
Date: December 5, 1994
Creator: Williams, Harold M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter to Jan Schronk, May 1, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Jan Schronk, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, and other institute participants that are part of the team attending the summer institute conducted by NTIEVA. The summer institute will be held at the University of North Texas campus from June 11 - 29, while several other days will be spent in Dallas and Fort Worth. The teachers involved with the institute are given credits based on their academic or professional needs.
Date: May 1, 1990
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack & McCarter, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Leilani Lattin Duke to Bill McCarter, August 5, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center, to Bill McCarter, co-director of NTIEVA, inviting McCarter to attend the Getty Center's fifth national conference, "Beyond the Three R's: Transforming education with the Arts," being held from January 12th - 14th, 1995 in Washington, D.C., Hilton Hotel and Towers. The conference will cover education reforms in the schools and how education in the arts is contributing to achieving the reform agenda. Duke invites McCarter to be a featured speaker at the breakout session for January 13th, which will focus the highlights of the Regional Institute Directors work in relation to the DBAE, discipline-based art education.
Date: August 5, 1994
Creator: Duke, Leilani Lattin
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Sylvia Crutsinger, February 13, 1991]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Sylvia Crutsinger, teacher at Pilot Point Elementary. Thanking Crutsinger to allowing Broadus to visit her classroom, she enjoyed working with her students and seeing their participation in the art session. Broadus writes that she is interested in continuing the writing and art correlation and thinking of ways to make abstract concepts work with first grade children, when she visits Pilot Point again she'll want to discuss ideas with Crutsinger.
Date: February 13, 1991
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Jack Davis to Bill McCarter, September 18, 1995]

Description: Photocopy of a letter e-mail from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to his colleague to Bill McCarter, that Davis received prior. The email is to the "Houston Group" from Jack and Jeff, reminding the group about the press announcement of Transforming Education Through the Arts in Los Angeles, set by Harold Williams and Vartan Gregorian for October 11, 1995. Davis asks of the group who can go to LA and to let Vicki Rosenberg know by September 25th and to let her know how many directors and funders are able to make the trip as well.
Date: September 15, 1995
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Memorandum from Jack Davis to Linus Wright, December 8, 1986]

Description: Photocopy of a memorandum from Jack Davis, Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, to Linus Wright, Dallas ISD. Thanking Wright for his prompt response and letter of support of Dallas ISD participating as a consortium member in the planning a grant proposal, to be sent to the Getty Center for the Arts in Education. Davis is enclosing a copy of the proposal for Wright, which has already been submitted to the Getty. The Getty proposal not present with memorandum.
Date: December 8, 1986
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Albert Thomas to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, November 10, 1993]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Albert Thomas, Superintendent of Denton ISD, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. To confirm Denton ISD's commitment as full partner to NTIEVA. Thomas writes that Sandra Parker, Associate Director and Site Coordinator for Denton ISD, will contribute 5% of her time during the 1993 - 1994 calendar year to activities related to staff development and implementation efforts of the discipline-based art education (DBAE). Along with six other art teachers who will devote time towards the program. Attached to the letter is a stipend worksheet for the faculty involved with the institute based on current salaries.
Date: November 10, 1993
Creator: Thomas, Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from UNT Health Science Board of Regents, to Harold M. Williams, December 3, 1993]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from the University of North Texas Health Science Center Board of Regents, chairman Jerry Farrington, vice chair E.L. Langley, W. David Bayless, Sr., R.L Crawford, Jr., Nancy Halbreich, Joe Kirven, Lucille G. Murchison, Don Rives and Topsy Wright to Harold M. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust. In regards to the Board of Regents wanting to let Williams known how much they appreciate the continued support of the Getty Trust towards the University's art education efforts through North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts program.
Date: December 3, 1993
Creator: Farrington, Jerry
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, August 30, 1993]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer for the Getty Center, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of NTIEVA, in regards to the status of their fiscal year of 1994, FY94, funding grant. Rosenberg apologizes to Davis and McCarter for the delay but that it will be four more weeks until she has an answer to their funding proposal as Leilani Lattin Duke is out of the country and cannot review the paperwork until her return.
Date: August 30, 1993
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Kristen Marstaller to Bill McCarter, January 17, 1996]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Kristen Marstaller, Art / Social Studies Coordinator for the Austin Independent School District to Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. To thank McCarter on the behalf of Austin teachers and the presentation he made at the Art Share meeting. Marstaller writes that many of the misunderstandings and misconceptions were cleared up and the faculty was impressed with his knowledge and willingness to assist the Austin District. Martaller will reach out to McCarter at a later date to further discuss the program and ask for suggestions and advice as they proceeded with implementation of DBAE.
Date: January 17, 1996
Creator: Marstaller, Kristen
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bill McCarter to Harriet Laney, May 8, 1992]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Harriet Laney. The letter is forwarded of the one McCarter had sent to Janice Wiggins. McCarter mentions that Janice Wiggins appears to have excessive demands by the district, and he would like to discuss options of relieving Wiggins of some of her responsibilities.
Date: May 8, 1992
Creator: McCarter, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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