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Abstracts and Presentations for Inheriting the Theory Seminar, May, 4-7, 1989

Description: Photocopy of the abstracts for presentations that are taking place during the Inheriting the Theory: New Voices and Multiple Perspectives on DBAE. At the bottom of the first page is the location and dates of the seminar and on the left-hand side are the committee members and director. Each idea is listed under its own "Triangulation", there are six total. Each triangulation gives a summary of the idea as well as a snippet about the speaker.
Date: May 1989
Creator: Getty Center for Education in the Arts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Acrylic Polymer Used for Sculptural Biomorphic Shapes

Description: This study explores the feasibility of utilizing three specific processes and acrylic polymer sheets to form three-dimensional biomorphic shapes. These processes are 1) pressure forming of a free-form hemisphere, 2) thermo-stretching a free-form rectangular bar, and 3) cementing of acrylic polymer into a thicker form.
Date: unknown
Creator: Montague, Caroline A.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Action Research Study of Community Building with Elementary Students in a Title I School

Description: “In what ways does teaching with folk arts inspired visual arts-based instruction enhance community building among elementary students in a Title I school?” was the primary research question in this study. Agreeing with past and present day research that the construct of community is vital to social and cultural capital, this research attempts to determine how the notion of community benefits both students and teachers in the elementary art classroom. Folk art was utilized because this genre… more
Date: May 2014
Creator: Dew, SaraBeth
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Aesthetics in the Popular Culture

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to consider three opposing statements regarding aesthetics in our popular culture. The first statement is that the youth of this age are demolishing the old standards of aesthetic taste and are creating a nonaesthetic; the second statement is that the youth are enlarging the vision and scope of the accepted standard of aesthetic and changing its direction; the thrid statement is that the creations of the youth in our popular culture of today are neither new nor non… more
Date: May 1968
Creator: Holland, Barbara
Partner: UNT Libraries
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After Earth Day: Continuing the Conservation Effort

Description: Collection of essays based on sessions presented at a conference held for the 21st Earth Day (April 1991), organized into five topical sections: Conservation Politics; Environmental Science Today and Tomorrow; Conservation, Economics, and the Corporate Effort; Environmental Philosophy; and Religion and Conservation. Index starts on page 237.
Date: 1992
Creator: Oelschlaeger, Max
Partner: UNT Press
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Alignment of Middle School Core TEKS with Visual Arts TEKS

Description: This descriptive study uses a qualitative, content analysis to examine the middle school visual arts and core Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to determine the potential common learning activities that can be aligned between the two. By performing an alignment of the potential common learning activities present in the middle school visual art TEKS and the middle school core TEKS, I demonstrate that there is a foundation for curriculum integration in the Texas middle school visual art… more
Date: December 2010
Creator: Hartman, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Allaying Terror: Domesticating Vietnamese Refugee Artisans as Subjects of American Diplomacy

Description: This article explores how the photographs of a basketmaker, as well as photographs of other refugee artisans published in the August 1956 issue of Interior magazine, served the American State Department agenda by characterizing its subject in terms of pathos and need.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Way, Jennifer
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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An Analysis of Basic Design Education in Turkey and Implications for Changes in Postsecondary Art Curriculum

Description: This study explored the current status of Turkish basic art education and the objectives of the first year art program at the university level in Turkey. Also, the researcher attempted to explore the objectives and expectations of Turkish art professors and to examine the applicability of certain concepts of American basic design education in the teaching of studio foundation courses in Turkish art schools. The study included the literature review concerning changes in educational philosophy re… more
Date: August 1998
Creator: Oztuna, Haci Yakup
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Analysis of Selected Topics and Participants at National Art Education Association Conferences (1951 through 1980)

Description: The purpose of this study was to discern the topical content and educational content level of selected presentations given at National Art Education Association conferences and to identify the gender, level of involvement, and occupational background of participants who provided this information. The printed content of nineteen national conference bulletins published from 1951 through 1980 was analyzed to identify presentations and participants that focused on art education teachers, students, … more
Date: August 1984
Creator: Shoaff, Susan M. (Susan Mary)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Analysis of the Advertising Art in Eight Retail Stores of Fort Worth Texas

Description: It is the purpose of this thesis to acquaint the reader with the various systems, materials, and people who produce the art , in order to evaluate it and to pass on the results of its research to others who may find it useful in acquainting themselves with the advertising field.
Date: June 1951
Creator: Bradford, Johnny Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Analysis of the Job Requirements for Interior Designers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area Compared to the Interior Design Curriculum at North Texas State University

Description: "This study was conducted primarily to determine how relevant the interior design curriculum at North Texas State University is from the viewpoint of the practitioners of interior design in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area."--2.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Koenig, Marcia S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Analysis of the Salt-Bisque Technique, Its Effects Under Regulated Conditions and Its Evolution Through the Introduction of Seven Sodium-Based Chemicals

Description: This paper examines the surface effects of the salt-bisque technique on clay forms and its evolution through the introduction of seven-sodium based chemicals. Genevieve Espinosa walks the reader through a series of tests and procedures in three stages: the formative, decorative, and conclusive (firing) stages.
Date: May 1987
Creator: Espinosa, Genevieve
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Animated Autoethnographies: Using Stop Motion Animation As a Catalyst for Self-acceptance in the Art Classroom

Description: As a doctoral student, I was asked to teach a course based on emerging technologies and postmodern methods of inquiry in the field of art education. The course was titled Issues and Applications of Technology in Art Education and I developed a method of inquiry called animated autoethnography for pre-service art educators while teaching this course. Through this dissertation, I describe, analyze, interrogate, value, contextualize, reflect on, and artistically react to the autoethnographic anima… more
Date: August 2015
Creator: Blair, Jeremy Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries
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