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[Memo from Lori Weisgerber to Jack Davis, Harriet Laney and Bill McCarter, August 15, 1997]

Description: Photocopy of a memo from Lori Weisgerber, Getty Center, to Jack Davis, Harriet Laney and Bill McCarter, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, with information regarding the Advisory Committee and outlines of information needed to updated in the committee notebook.
Date: August 15, 1997
Creator: Weisgerber, Lori
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Organization Grant Application Form NEA]

Description: An organization grant application form for the National Endowment Association filled out by the North Texas State University, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The form has been filled out requesting financial assistant / grant awards to help fund their discipline-based art education reform program and the money will go towards training teachers to become art specialists in the classroom. The following pages go into greater details about the programs primary goals and thei… more
Date: February 1997
Creator: North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aesthetic Development]

Description: A research team from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is visiting the School of Visual Arts to observe a teacher training institute from June 16th - 27th. The Gulbenkian Foundation, located in Lisbon, Portugal is sending the group to study an approach to art teaching known as discipline-based art education. A list of names of the individuals part of the research team are mentioned in the document.
Date: [1997..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Commission on the Arts: General Financial Assistance Application]

Description: A financial assistance application from the University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts, requesting support starting September 1997 and ending August 1998. Six-hundred people will be served from the proposal and 24, 600+ youths will be as well. The second page of the application is a breakdown of the budgeting. The third page talks about the goals of the institution in which the money requested would be going too.
Date: September 1997
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Project scope and goals - Thematic requirements]

Description: A document on project scope and goals for a collaboration between North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, the Getty Center and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a Portuguese foundation, whose intent is to organize a group of studies with educators, philosophers, psychologists, teachers, animators and plastic arts. The group is interested in incorporating and theorizing upon the educational event that happen, and organizing and implementing DBAE methodologies.
Date: [1997..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Program grows in leaps and bounds]

Description: A newspaper published by the University of North Texas to let readers be aware of what is going on at the University and what accomplishments have been made. With the projected growth rate of North Texas, enrollment to the university has increased. The University has increased the staff because the demand has been so great. Many students across the metroplex will get to experienced university-level science and performing arts.
Date: [1997..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Getty in a Place to Break Down Cultural Walls

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the new Getty Center, the building budget of $1 billion is considered a architectural beauty. The five-building museum and research center will be a popular tourist attraction, wanting to break into the public involvement and shed its reputation as a remote citadel for high culture. That is one of the many challenges that newly appointed Getty Center president and CEO, Barry Munitz will have to face.
Date: July 21, 1997
Creator: Los Angeles Times
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Awards presented at Honors Day, April 11

Description: A newsletter published by the University of North Texas, on the faculty, staff and students who have made outstanding contributions to the UNT community. They were recognized at the annual Honors Day award ceremony on April 11. Such award was given to North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts co-directors Dr. Jack Davis and Dr. William McCarter, the Presiden'ts Award recognizes national contributions that have brought recongition to UNT.
Date: May 1997
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

UNT takes program to Metroplex schools

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article written about the University of North Texas and their education reform program developed by staff William McCarter and Jack Davis. The education reform program is an experiment on the children in their classrooms by teaching them different methods of arts education. McCarter states that research has shown that arts expand all areas of the curriculum by tapping into higher-level thinking skills and that art makes a measurable difference in test s… more
Date: April 22, 1997
Creator: Breeding, Lucinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Schools expand arts teaching

Description: A newspaper clipping on the University of North Texas in Denton working with six local elementary schools to implement comprehensive arts education over the next five years as part of a $15 million experiment in education reform. The education reform is "Art Partner Schools" granting anywhere from $25,000 - $35,000 annually for five years to thirty-six elementary schools. Sent from the office of Jack Davis to colleagues, keeping track of the "University of North Texas in the news."
Date: April 7, 1997
Creator: Cuellar, Chaterine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[List of "Educating the Workplace through the Arts" conference participants]

Description: Photocopy of a document that lists the people who were present and participated in a conference held by Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Each name is followed by their position/title and organization/workplace. Some names have check marks next to them.
Date: January 1997
Creator: Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Lee Hanson to R. William McCarter, June 1, 1997]

Description: A letter from Lee Hanson, Art Coordinator at Palo Alto Unified School District, to R. William McCarter, Co-director at North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, about Hanson's developments on their elementary art curriculum. Hanson has developed a unit that vertically slice through the grades, all organized by a big idea. They started with a multi-faceted big idea that would be addressed as components at various grade levels. They continue to describe their confusion about what Th… more
Date: June 1, 1997
Creator: Hanson, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Elliot Eisner to R. William McCarter, March 12, 1997]

Description: A letter from Elliot Eisner, Professor of Education and Art, Sandford University, to R. William McCarter, Co-director, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, about clearing up McCarter's confusion about Eisner's development of curriculum units. McCarter had earlier sent a letter expressing their surprisement of Eisner not focusing their attention of the analysis of curriculum units. Eisner states that they are enclosing three documents, letter of November 19, letter of January … more
Date: March 12, 1997
Creator: Eisner, Eilliot
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to National Curriculum Working Group, March 11, 1997]

Description: A letter from Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer for The Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the members of the National Curriculum Working Group, including R. William McCarter, Co-director, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Rosenberg offers the group an honoraria of $1,000 to pay for travels, lodging and food expenses for upcoming meetings between the different unit Groups. Rosenburg offers a list of the Group participants to better facilitate communications.
Date: March 11, 1997
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grant approval letter from the Getty Education Institute for the Arts to Dr. D. Jack Davis, Phillip C. Diebel, and William McCarter - August 29, 1997]

Description: A letter from the Getty Education Institute for the Arts to D. Jack Davis, Phillip C. Diebel, and R. William McCarter, regarding a grant awarded to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (NTIEVA). The letter includes the grant's terms and conditions, as well as signature spaces for all attributed names. All signature spaces have been signed.
Date: August 29, 1997
Creator: Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Vicki J. Rosenberg to R. William McCarter]

Description: A letter from Vicki J. Rosenberg with the Getty Education Institute for the Arts to R. William McCarter with the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts inviting McCarter to attend the leaders meeting of the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge Project. The letter includes meeting details and purpose, travel arrangement information, and instructions on how to RSVP to attend.
Date: December 22, 1997
Creator: Vicki J. Rosenberg
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Vicki J. Rosenberg to Nancy Berry, D. Jack Davis, and R. William McCarter, September 4, 1997]

Description: A letter from Vicki J. Rosenberg to Nancy Berry, D. Jack Davis, and R. William McCarter, informing them that the Getty Center for Education in the Arts has approved a grant to fund the National Center for School/Museum Collaboration project.
Date: September 4, 1997
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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