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[Update, June 12, 1989]

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 the five-year grant received by North Texas from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts for the education reform program. The art education reform will promote changes in teaching of the visual arts to thousands of children in the North Texas.
Date: June 12, 1989
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Art as education: Reproductions of artwork go to classrooms

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation gifting almost $80,000 to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to reproduce famous artwork that are shown in the Dallas and Fort Worth Museums. The money will go directly to producing twenty-five laminated, 18 x 24 foot poster reproductions and is part of the national movement to blend aesthetics, history, criticism and technique in the teaching of arts.
Date: February 26, 1993
Creator: Releford, Michelle
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[RE: Getty's New President and CEO]

Description: A letter from Leilani Lattin Duke to past and present Regional Institute Directors, in regards to the notification of the Getty's new president and CEO. The new president named is Dr. Barry Munitz, who Duke and colleagues say are delighted because of Munitz distinguishes career as an educator. cc'd are Julie Abel and Vicki Rosenberg.
Date: July 23, 1997
Creator: Duke, Leilani Lattin
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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NT honors art director with fine arts doctorate

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, by presenting him with an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. Dr. Pillsbury received his art history degree from Yale University and his doctorate from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, but his outstanding support of the arts in North Texas deserved him recognition.
Date: March 28, 1996
Creator: Connolly, Christine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Wheels of invention

Description: A newspaper clipping, published by The Dallas Morning News, features an article with the headline, "Wheels of invention - Story inspires Bedford students to roll out of car-designs ideas" written by A. Lee Graham. Students at Shady Brook Elementary School, Bedford Texas, have been transforming burger boxes, mustard bottles, toilet paper rolls and other unlikely items to build toy cars. The inspiration comes from a book titled "Galimoto," which means car in Chichewa, a native language in Malawi, Africa.
Date: December 27, 1998
Creator: Graham, A. Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Art grant]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts receiving a grant to establish a new art specialty program. The Getty center for Education awarded the institute $62,5000 to establish a National Center for Art Museum / School Collaborations. The center will focus on establishing collaborative programs between art museums, public schools and universities. Nancy Berry, assistant professor of Art History and Art Education at UNT has been named director of the new center.
Date: January 15, 1995
Creator: Washington, April
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Bronze sculptures find home in subdivision

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on University of North Texas graduate and artist, Laurie Gowland, announcing her completion of bronze sculptures for the entrance to the Hunter's Ridge, a Denton residential subdivision. As a graduate student in fine arts, Ms. Gowland returns to Denton to lead the Hurst-Euless-Bedford section of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.
Date: January 8, 1995
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Berry named art educator of year

Description: A article published in In House, a University of North Texas newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2, title "Berry named art educator of year," by Nancy Cochran LeMay. The article is about Nancy Berry, an assistant professor of visual arts being named Higher Education art Educator of the Year by the Texas Art Education Association, she received the award at the association's annual conference.
Date: Autumn 1997
Creator: LeMay, Nancy Cochran
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Getty's Latest Treasure

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the newly constructed Getty Center, the massive $1 billion complex scheduled to open late December. The J. Paul Getty Trust' aims to become a public advocate for the arts, humanities and education in the United States. The Getty has named Barry Munitz the president and chief executive of the Getty Trust in January, replacing Harold M. Williams who announced his retirement.
Date: July 21, 1997
Creator: Los Angeles Times
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Exhibit shows student's artwork

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article about an exhibit featuring student's work from participating school districts on display at the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts in Denton. The exhibit illustrates the combined efforts of NTIEVA to expand education in the visual arts.
Date: [1990..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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UNT, Nebraska link up for teleconference

Description: A newspaper snippet featuring an article on the University of North Texas panelist from North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and Nebraska Consortium linking up together for a nation wide discipline-based art education teleconference. The teleconference is titled "Schools, Museums, Art and Children: A Dialogue of States."
Date: October 20, 1992
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Plano Teachers Participate in Video Project

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts producing a video with Plano Art Coordinator Lynda Alford which details the collaboration in Plano between the elementary art specialists, classroom teachers and the Dallas Museum of Art. The reproductions are used to introduce art concepts as well as reading concepts. A handwritten note on the article reads, "Sheila, We can also provide photographs - sorry this is incomplete - use this anyways you like to adopt for the article. Nancy. Please send me a copy of your resulting article. Thanks"
Date: 1992
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Shady Brook Elementary students take part in nationwide education program

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Shady Brook Elementary studying artists such as O'Keefee, Renoir and Dali and reproductions made by the elementary students. Students at Shady Brook Elementary use the hallways like galleries, when new work goes up the old comes down. Shady Brooke is one of the thirty-six elementary schools nationwide that accepted to take part in the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge and will receive $200,000 to support the program.
Date: [1997..]
Creator: Rogness, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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UNT, Nebraska link up for teleconference

Description: A newspaper clipping on the UNT and Prairie Visions: Nebraska Consortium for Discipline-Based Art Education getting together for a nation-wide teleconference, "Schools, Museums, Art and Children: A Dialogue of States."
Date: October 20, 1992
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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New Getty Grants

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring a snippet on the J. Paul Getty Trust announcing the appointment of Barry Munitz as its new president and chief executive. The Center also annouced two new grant programs , the first is an organizational assessment grant to enabled recipients to evaluate their operations.
Date: July 19, 1997
Creator: Los Angeles Times
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Art instructors practice what they teach

Description: A newspaper clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, written by staff writer, Robert Philpot, titled "Art instructors practice what they teach." The article is about educators who will be displaying their own works of art at the "1999 Teachers as Artists Exhibition." The exhibition is a join effort among the school district, the Fort Worth International Center and the Fort Worth Sister Cities International, with what hopes to be an annual event.
Date: February 10, 1991
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Fund raising for university involves teamwork at UNT

Description: A page from the "In House" newsletter, published by the University of North Texas. In a team effort from those involved at the UNT they managed to raise $565,000 in gifts and private grants all for the art education program at the school of visual arts. Lane states that all gifts and grants are important and that the bigger grants came to UNT because they college has one of the best art education programs in the nation. A second article at the bottom of the newsletter states, "Wal-Mart supports UNT technology program," the largest retail store has gifted the University $20,000.
Date: March 1994
Creator: Lane, Peter B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Amon Carter director resigns after 15 years

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Jan Muhlert, former director of the Amon Carter Museum of fifteen years, resigning for personal reasons. Muhlert said that it was time to step back, to catch up on reading, writing and to travel. Board president Ruth Carter Stevenson praised Muhlert contributions to the museum.
Date: [1995..]
Creator: Kutner, Janet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Update, September 23, 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 North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts members Nancy Cason, Project Coordinator, and colleague Cassandra Broadus, graduate research assistant, presented "discipline-based art education" or DBAE, at a pre-kindergarten - sixth grade teacher education workshop. Co-directors, Jack Davis and Bill McCarter were presenters at Arts Education Initiative Training Institutes conducted by the Texas Commission on the Arts in San Antonio and Houston.
Date: September 23, 1991
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Getty Center Grants $3.75 Million To Art Education

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the Getty Center granting $3.75 million to restructure the way visual arts are taught in the nation's public schools through their Regional Institute Grant Program, or RIGs. Each of the Center's consortia will receive $625,000 in matching grant fund over five years, only if each consortia raise more than half-million dollars in matching funds during the five-year period. The institute's goal is to encourage greater collaboration within the community organizations.
Date: April 1990
Creator: National Art Education Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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School's In

Description: A newspaper clipping, published by the Denton Record-Chronicle, features an article with the headline, "School's In - Camp offers area youngsters a retreat with an educational spin for summer," written by Lucinda Breeding. "Out of Africa," is a week long daytime camp for children between six and fourteen where students will explore the culture, geography and history of African culture. Deborah Gentile, an art specialist at Tomas Rivera Elementary school will be the arts camp instructor.
Date: [1997..]
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Students visiting art museums]

Description: A newspaper clipping with a photograph of students from an elementary school taking a field trip to museums in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. The kids are visiting these museums, looking and talking about the art on an intellectual and critical level.
Date: September 16, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[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 District
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A New Twist on Art History

Description: A newsletter clipping written by Berniece Patterson, an art specialist in Denton, Texas for the newsletter School Arts. The article is titled, "A New Twist on Art History," which focuses on Patterson's teaching methods in the classroom with her students, and how she took a different approach to education them by placing twelve painting prints in the room and having the students discuss the meanings of each and the knowledge of the artists who painted them. The methods has the children use their discipline-based art education with the four fundamentals of art criticism, art history, art production and aesthetics to talk about art.
Date: February 1998
Creator: Patterson, Berniece
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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