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NTIEVA TRAVELS ACROSS TEXAS:
TYLER, CORPUS CHRISTI AND WACO
NTIEVA's summer schedule did not lessen with the
completion of the 1993 Summer Institute and the Fort Worth
Institute. Instead, staff members spent much of the remainder
of the summer "on the road" for DBAE.
We were invited to present seminars on DBAEin three
different locations in Texas this summer: the University of
Texas in Tyler, the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus
Christi and the Art Center in Waco.
To provide introductory materials, the Institute devel-
oped a participant notebook specifically for the seminars.
Activities for each of the seminars focused on making interdis-
ciplinary connections with art and writing, math, science, and
social studies. Other activities included aesthetic discus-
sions, making and using time lines, producing writing ex-
amples typical of those required on TAAS exams, learning
about the work of Texas artist John Biggers andmaking paper
quilts.
Throughout their travels this summer, NTIEVA staff
were impressed by the enthusiasm and interest expressed by
seminar participants in all three locations, and by the level of
* cooperative effort made by school district and art museums/
centers.
TYLER: EAST TEXAS SEMINAR
The University of Texas at Tyler served as host for a
three day seminar on the campus. Bill McCarter, NTI EVA Co-
director, and Nancy Reynolds, Project Coordinator, led "Chil-
dren Learning Through the Arts," a workshop designed to
meet the needs of early childhood and elementary educators.
Because the Tyler Museum of Art graciously invited
us to utilize the museum's collection, part of the workshop took
place in the museum. Approximately 80 people attended the
workshop over a three-day period.
CORPUS CHRISTI: SEMINAR BY THE SEA
The Art Museum of South Texas and Corpus Christi
ISD cooperated this summer in bringing NTIEVA seminars to
teachers from Corpus Christi and south central Texas. During
the first week in August, Nancy Reynolds and Kay Wilson,
Graduate Research Assistant, worked for four days with two
groups of approximately 50 teachers each to develop under-
standing of DBAE techniques and activities.
The Corpus Christi ISD is currently writing an art curri-
culum that includes art history, art criticism, aesthetics and
studio art, so we were excited to be invited to be a part of their
training effort.
The first seminar group, elementary teachers from
Corpus Christi, met August 2-3, and participated in activities
using the Art Museum of South Texas' permanent collection
and a temporary exhibit of glass art objects, Glass: From
Ancient Craft to ContemporaryArt, on display in the museum's
main galleries. The second group met August 4-5. This group
included teachers from elementary and secondary schools in
the Corpus Christi area and a number of teachers from as far
away as Laredo and Alice.
WACO: CENTRAL TEXAS SEMINAR
Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds joined 40 teachers
August 28 at the Art Center in Waco. The reason for the
gathering was meeting number two of a three part series
sponsored by the Center and Waco ISD to introduce teachers
and art specialists to the concepts of DBAE. The first part had
been presented earlier by the Art Center staff, who have also
established warm relationships with area teachers and pro-
vided important support materials for inserting art in the curricu-
lum.
The third and last part of the Waco teacher workshops
takes place on September 25th when a bus will drive the
participants from Waco to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort
Worth to meet Bill for an afternoon at the Museum.
It is exciting to see other museums, arts centers, and
school districts around the state becoming interested in the
concepts we have been developing over the last four years.
Presentations in these new districts reflect the collective expe-
riences all of you have shared with us over the years - thank
you.
NTIEVA Newsletter
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Don't forget!
TAEA Fall Conference Is In Houston
at the downtown Hyatt Regency
November 11-13, 1993
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