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reiterated Jan's welcome and then encouraged participants to
pursue and maintain quality visual arts programs within their
district and school. Overview and Institute goals for Discipline-
Based Art Education were presented by Dr. Jack Davis while
interdisciplinary connections were presented by Dr. Bill
McCarter, Co-directors of NTIEVA.
Nancy Berry, ArtLinks Project Director, secured the
attention of the groups when she unveiled the ArtLinks Study
Print Collection, twenty-five reproductions of works of art from
the five consortium museums in Dallas and Fort Worth.
Participants were then treated to Stories of Illumina-
tion and Growth, a video about Texas artist John Biggers.
Bigger's painting, Stany Crown, is in the Dallas Museum of Art
and is included in ArtLinks.
Following thevideo, Nancy Reynolds, NTIEVA Project
Coordinator, Research Assistants Pam Stephens and Kay
Wilson, and District LeaderArt Specialists guided participants
through a variety of writing exercises centering on different
Bigger's images.
The day culminated with a presentation on DBAE
advocacy and implementation by HEB Principal Russ
Chapman. Door prizes from commercial sponsors were
awarded to excited teachers. All participants left Central
Junior High curious about what the next two weeks held for
them, and eager to learn more about DBAE.
Throughout the following activity-filled two weeks,
participants met in five simultaneous institutes for introduction
and immersion in art history, art criticism, aesthetics and
studio production. They learned about these disciplines via
videos from professionals prominent in their respective art
The North Texas Institute for Educators on the
Visual Arts and this newsletter are supported by a Five-Year
Matching Grant from the Getty Center for Education in the
Arts, an Operating Unit of the J. Paul Getty Trust, 1990-94;
a Three-Year Grant from the Amon G. Carter Foundation,
1991-93; a Three-Year Grant from the Edward and Betty
Marcus Foundation, 1992-94; a One Year Grant from the
University of North Texas Foundation, 1990; a One Year
Grant from the Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, 1991;
One Year Grants from the Greater Denton Arts Council and
the Arts Guild of Denton, 1990-93; One Year Grants from the
Texas Commission on the Arts, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1992-93
and 1993-94; and Individual Donors.
Consortium Member Institutions of the North Texas
Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts: Dallas ISD, Denton
ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, Pilot Point
ISD, Piano ISD, Amon Carter Museum, Dallas Museum of Art,
Kimbell Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Modern Art Mu-
seum of Fort Worth, Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant
County, Greater Denton Arts Council and the University of
North Texas.Institute participants place postcard reproductions of art works along a time line
stretched the entire length of a school hall.
fields. The videos were produced by Fort Worth ISD and
NTIEVA during a spring lecture series at the Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth. They featured Dr. Marty Rosenberg
(art history), Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite (art criticism), Dr. Marcia
Eaton (aesthetics) and Texas artist Lee Smith (art produc-
tion). Smith's painting, China or the Devil, is represented in
ArtLinks.
Each of the five simultaneous institutes followed
individual schedules, though basic content in all was the
same. Dallas and Plano participants visited the Dallas Mu-
seum of Art and the Meadows Museum, while Fort Worth and
HEB traveled to the Amon Carter, the Modern Art Museum of
Fort Worth and the Kimbell.NTIEVA Newsletter
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