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At the head of its class

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on children from Forest Hill Elementary School at the head of their class with high grades in arts education. The article goes into the fact that arts education has been around since the 1950s but there never has been such an interest until now, art education is being re-examined. Art is being viewed as important to all students as a means of enchaining learning and other disciplines such as math and science. The article continues into the hard work tha… more
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

['At the head of its class' article]

Description: A clipping of an article written by Janet Tyson for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about Fort Worth school's art programs. It discusses the concerns for a lack of art-related courses in schools and points to Fort Worth as a leader in the initiative to bring them back with the help of NTIEVA and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts.
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Life and Arts, April 24, 1995]

Description: A clipping from an article written by Janet Tyson for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's 'Life & Arts' section. The article covers the changes that the Amon Carter Museum is making to improve their collections.
Date: April 24, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Life and Arts, September 16, 1995]

Description: An article titled "School of Thought" written by Janet Tyson for the Life & Arts section of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It covers a group of fifth-graders while they visit the at museums in the Fort Worth area.
Date: September 16, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[William McCarter, Arts Educator]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter, Art Professor at the University of North Texas. McCarter received his doctor of education in 1968 - the same year he came to teach at UNT, in 1989 he and his colleague Dr. Jack Davis, co-directed North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts funded by the Getty Center. McCarter states he acts like a broker for the museums, schools and universities, bringing them together to teach them how to educate young children.
Date: January 30, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Visual Arts]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring a snippet on the current projects at the University of North Texas. Six North Texas elementary schools were selected to participate in the nationwide $15 million Arts Partner Schools project. Each school will receive $25,000 - $35,000 annually for five years that cove teacher training, curriculum development, and testing to see if a comprehensive cross curricular approach to teaching visual arts has a positive effect on childhood education.
Date: April 6, 1997
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Museum of the Century

Description: A newspaper clipping from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, unveiling LA's new Getty Center. The $1 billion creation was funded by a single private source and designed by one man in what has been called the architectural commission of the century. The construction took nearly fourteen years to complete and houses the world's richest art museum.
Date: December 14, 1997
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

At the Crossroads: Museum plans big changes while keeping its commitment to art

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on struggles the Amon Carter Museum faces by dealing with the declining resources. The Amon Carter Museum is also looking to replace, former museum director Jan Muhlert, who abruptly resigned. Museum officials have discussed for several months what to do to carry the museum to a new stage.
Date: April 24, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The force behind the Kimbell

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Kay and Ben Fortson. Kay Carter Forston is president of the private nonprofit foundation that funds and governs the Kimbell, along with her husband independent oilman Ben J. Fortson being the vice president and chief financial officer. During the Kimbell Art Museum's opening in October 1972, they were worried they didn't have enough definitive artwork to fill the museum.
Date: April 11, 1993
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Support your local museums

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the struggles the Amon Carter Museum faces by dealing with the declining resources that are affecting museums across the country. Former museum director Jan Muhlert resigned and the Museum will have to appoint a new director who needs to be a scholar, an able administrator and someone with people skills who can take the museum to the community.
Date: June 11, 1995
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Her art comes from the heart

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Beverly Fletcher, a women who claims partial responsibility for the artistic achievement in the Fort Worth school district and the national recognition such achievement as received. Fletcher believes that intensive exposure to the art has helped many school children excel in their education, citing that test scores at Greenbriar Elementary School after three years of disciplined-based art education, has moved up from 47th place in the district to the… more
Date: [1996..]
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

At the head of its class

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article about Fort Worth ISD being high in art education grades. The article goes into the fact that arts education has been around since the 1950s but there never has been such an interest until now, art education is being re-examined. Art is being viewed as important to all students as a means of enchaining learning and other disciplines such as math and science. The article continues into the hard work that Getty Center and the education reformation program … more
Date: April 13, 1989
Creator: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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