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Title: Getty Education Institute for the Arts publications
Date (inclusive): 1980s-2003
Number: IA30011
Creator/Collector:
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Physical Description:
6.2 linear feet
(7 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Institutional Records and Archives
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
archives@getty.edu
Abstract: Collection contains copies of publications of the Getty Education Institute, formerly known as the Getty Center for Education
in the Arts, dating from the 1980s to 2003. The materials include published books, booklets, and video recordings; general
unpublished video recordings and booklets; conference proceedings; classroom planning kits; presentation slides; and ephemera
including conference materials and information bulletins.
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English
The Getty Center for Education in the Arts, later known as the Getty Education Institute for the Arts (GEI), was one of the
original programs established by the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural and philanthropic organization serving
both general audiences and specialized professionals. The Trust is a not-for-profit institution, educational in purpose and
character, that focuses on the visual arts in all of their dimensions. As of 2014 the Trust supports and oversees four programs:
the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Foundation, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute. The Trust
founded the Getty Center for Education in the Arts in 1982 with the mission of improving the quality and status of arts education
in the nation's public schools. The education programs were guided by three premises: the visual arts should be an essential
part of every child's education because knowledge of the arts is a principal means of understanding human experiences and
transmitting cultural values; art education's content must be broadened to include instruction in art production, art history,
art criticism, and aesthetics-an approach known as discipline-based art education (DBAE); and the most effective art education
programs are based on partnerships among teachers, administrators, artists, museums, universities, and parents.
During its first ten years, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts / GEI concentrated on the implementation and dissemination
of DBAE. This was achieved by advocating for the value of arts in education, through the dissemination of print publications
and videotapes, national conferences, and collaborative projects; professional development for school and university personnel,
through in-service programs such as the Los Angeles Institute; theory development to encourage evolution of DBAE, through
seminars, doctoral fellowships, and the commissioning of scholarly publications; curriculum development to support creation
of model instructional materials; and special initiatives to encourage others to champion DBAE. In January 1986 responsibility
for administering arts education grants was transferred from the Trust's Grant Program to the Center for Education in the
Arts. The goal of the arts education grant program was to support the development of model DBAE programs across the country.
In addition to improving the quality of arts education in primary and secondary schools, the GEI also concentrated on the
education of museum visitors. Focus group research and other studies resulted in a number of publications aimed at the museum
community.
Lani Duke was the founding director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts / GEI and continued to lead the program
for 17 years. Duke resigned in 1998 upon notice of the GEI's imminent dissolution. President Barry Muntiz named Ted Mitchell,
former dean of the UCLA School of Education, as the Getty Trust's Vice President for Education and interim director of the
GEI until the program's dissolution in 1999.
The records described in accessions 2007.IA.27 and 2013.IA.58 are available for use by qualified researchers.
The following types of records are permanently closed: records containing personal information, records that compromise security
or operations, legal communications, legal work product, and records related to donors. The J. Paul Getty Trust reserves the
right to restrict access to any records held by the Institutional Archives.
[Cite the item and series (as appropriate)], Getty Education Institute for the Arts publications, Getty Education Institute
for the Arts. Institutional Archives, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Finding aid no. IA30011.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Accession 2007.IA.27 was transferred as part of the Legacy Appraisal Project. Accession 2013.IA.58, the material relating
to the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge(TETAC), was donated to the Getty Institutional Archives by Kim Alan
Wheetley, Executive Director of the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Accession 2007.IA.27 was minimally processed by Kyle Morgan in 2009. To prepare an inventory, the described materials were
cursorily reviewed to roughly delineate series, to create accurate contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered,
and to determine record types. In 2014 Lauren Jordan added Accession 2013.IA.58 and created the finding aid for the collection.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note
Videocassettes will require the creation of a use copy.
Related Archival Materials note
The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the people and subjects covered by the records.
The listing is not exhaustive.
Contributing Institution:
The Getty Research Institute
Inventory of Getty Publications, 1954-2012. The Getty Research Institute, Finding aid IA10020.
Art Education History Archives Project, 1998-1999. The Getty Research Institute, Finding aid IA 20034.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection primarily contains copies of publications of the Getty Education Institute, formerly known as the Getty Center
for Education in the Arts, dating from 1980s-2003. The materials relate to arts education in schools, especially discipline-based
art education, and include published books, booklets, and video recordings; general unpublished video recordings and booklets;
conference proceedings; classroom planning kits; presentation slides; and ephemera including conference materials and information
bulletins. Some materials were not published by the GEI itself but concern projects undertaken in conjunction with the Institute,
such as the Annenberg Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge. When the Getty Trust made the decision to dissolve
the GEI in 1998, a number of the grants had terms that ran until the end of fiscal year 2001; summary reports of these projects
were compiled over the following years.
Records are arranged into 8 series:
Series I. Books/booklets, 1984-1998;
Series II. Conference material, 1987-1999;
Series III. Ephemera ,1986-1998;
Series IV. Planning kits, 1992-1995;
Series V. Professional development program binders, 1983, 1992-1993;
Series VI. Video recordings, 1988-1998;
Series VII. Other binders, 1992, 1997;
Series VIII. Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge (TETAC), 1988-2003.
Art education in action
Art in education
Art in education--United States--20th century
Art museums--Educational aspects
Arts--Education, Elementary
Books
Ephemera
Photographic prints
Publications
Reports
Slides (photographs)
Videocassettes
Wheetley, Kim Alan