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writers and better storytellers.
Now, an elite group of 36 U.S.
schools - including Melissa's Shady
Brook Elementary School in Bedford
and five others in the Metroplex -
hbve been selected to share in a five-
xear, $15 million grant for intensive
arts programs. In Fort Worth,
Qakhurst Elementary, Greenbriar Ele-
mentary, North Hi Mount Elementary
aid E.M. Daggett Middle schools are
participating.
w; "It feels pretty prestigious to be
ope of the 36," Oakhurst Principal
n^niques.
At Shady Brook, for example, 'the
walls are covered with artwork by its
more than 500 students in pre-kinder-
garten through sixth grade or prints of
works by the masters. In one hall, a
sign advises parents: "If you can't
afford Matisse, frame your child's art-
work." In the classroom, students
pour over what educators call "Take-5
Prints," because they take a quick five
minutes to critique.
"When I first started teaching,
first-graders tried staying between the
lines of a coloring book," Shady
Brook Principal Russ Chapman said.
"They weren't trying to make pot-
tery."
Yesterday, more than 20 Shady
Brook 6- and 7-year-olds were mold-
ing Hopi-Tewa vessels in art teacherCindy Hermus' class.
"What do you suppose the Indians'
used to make the pottery?" Chapman
asked the youngsters. "Where did
they fire it?"
"They put it in the sun," said an
astute Kevin Jones, 7.
"And what do you think youfcould
put in there?" the principal asked.
"Money!" answered a practical
Crystal Hornung, 7.
As part of the grant, the six Metro-
plex schools will be teamed with an
art professor from the North Texas
Institute for Educators on the Visual
Arts at University of North Texas in
Denton.
Through earlier Getty programs,
the UNT institute has offered hun-
dreds of art literacy seminars to teach-
ers. The institute also sponsors activi-ties with local museums, including
Meadows Museum at Southern
Methodist University, the Kimbell,
the Modern and the Amon Carter
museums in Fort Worth and the Dal-
las Museum of Art. The museums
have provided more than 25 works
that have appeared on their showcase
floors to participating schools.
With the new grant, art educators
are hopeful that more parents will buy
into the new wave of art education.
"The adult public in general is not
very knowledgeable about the power
of art, because they have lacked that
in their own education," Alford said.
"We're trying .to get people's atten-
tion."
Staff writer Martha Deller con-
tributed to this report.tin
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IJana Marbut-Ray said. "And the fact
that Fort Worth had four schools,
that's excellent." - .
The goal of the Arts Partner
Schools effort, sponsored by the
Annenberg Foundation, the Getty
Education Institute for the Arts and
the National Arts Education Consor-
tium, is to measure the academic per-
formance of students at the 36
schools; which represent a mix of
urban, suburban and rural communi-
ties.
"Students are going to be better
writers and be more articulate about
their ideas," said Vicki Rosenberg,
senior program officer for the Getty
Education Institute for the Arts.
The grant, announced last week in
California, will pay to train teachers
and purchase materials. Representa-fives of the six Metroplex schools are
scheduled to meet in April to learn
details of the program, and the first
six teachers from each school will be
trained this summer.
"Here we have a program coming
in saying, 'We're going to put our
money where our mouth is,"' said
Lynda Alford, art coordinator in the
Plano school district, which has been
awarded a grant at Mitchell Elemen-
tary School. "This is the most exciting
thing I've seen come in a long time.
We're going to say, if the art program
is strong and integrated in traditional
'program, it's going to increase the
learning for all children."
The new approach has children
mimicking the Georges Seurat's con-
fettillike dot "pointilism" and Swiss
artist Paul Klee's color line tech-
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