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March North Texan
Job # 92-01-06-008 LRBS
SLUG: Marcus.gft
(head)
Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation
awards $225,000 to visual arts institute
The Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation of Dallas has awarded a three-year,
$225,000 grant to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the
University of North Texas.
A first-year payment of $60,000 already has been made as a part of matching
funds to a five-year, $625,000 grant awarded in 1990 by the Getty Center for Education
in the Arts. The foundation will give the institute an additional $75,000 in January 1993
and $90,000 in January 1994, bringing the total matching contributions to $400,000.
Other matching funds have been donated by the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, the Greater Denton Arts Council, the Texas
Commission on the Arts, the University of North Texas Foundation Inc. and individuals.
The North Texas Institute is one of six consortia the Getty Institute has
established to teach elementary schoolteachers how to implement discipline-based art
education in their classrooms. The North Texas consortium is made up of area school
districts, arts councils, museums, and state agencies.
Co-directors are Dr. Jack Davis, vice provost and associate
vice president for academic affairs, and Dr. Bill McCarter, Regents Professor of Art.
Participating school districts are Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth, Hurst-Euless-
Bedford, Pilot Point and Plano. Fort Worth museums include the Amon Carter, the
Kimbell and and the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. The Dallas Museum of Art
and the Meadows Museum in Dallas also have joined.
Also participating are the Greater Denton Arts Council, the Arts Council of Fort
Worth and Tarrant County, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Texas Education
Agency.
Davis says the institute provides intensive training in the theory and practice of
discipline-based art education. Summer institutes combine lectures and workshops with
visits to the participating museums.
During its first two years, the institute has trained 276 art specialists, classroom
teachers, docents and principals. They have taken the information into classrooms where
they have worked with about 7,000 Texas schoolchildren so far, Davis says. The planners
estimate that in the next three years they will train another 500 to 600 teachers.
The Marcus Foundation is located at One Preston Center in Dallas. Executive
director is M'Lou Bancroft. Chair of the board is Melba Davis Whatley.
- Charlotte Menger Guest
