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Finding aid for the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, Grant Files, 1984-2001
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Title: Getty Education Institute grant files
Date (inclusive): 1984-2001
Number: IA10021
Creator/Collector:
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Physical Description:
100.5 Linear Feet
(101 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Institutional Records and Archives
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The records, created and/or maintained by Program Officer Vicki Rosenberg, concern the grantmaking activities of the Getty
Education Institute for the Arts (GEI) from the mid-1980s until 2001. Rosenberg's files thoroughly cover the full range of
GEI grant making activites, including detailed files on District, Regional Institute, and Special Initiative grants. Other
GEI initiatives are briefly touched upon in her general adminstrative records. Records are comprised of correspondence, grant
proposals, review material, reports, and evaluation materials.
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general library access policy . See the Administrative Information section of this finding aid for access restrictions specific to the records described
below. Please note, some of the records may be stored off site; advanced notice is required for access to these materials.
Language: Collection material is in
English
In May of 1981, with the anticipated settlement of J. Paul Getty's estate and the disbursement of funds, the J. Paul Getty
Trust began intensive exploration to determine how the resources might be best used by the organization in support of the
arts world. A year later, the trustees approved a number of recommendations, among which was the creation of a center for
developing programs directed at improving the quality and status of arts education. Formally founded in 1982, this center
became known as the Getty's Center for Education in the Arts, later known as the Getty Education Institute (GEI) [the abbreviation
GEI will be used througout, regardless of the name of the program at the time]. Choosing to focus on the visual arts, the
GEI centered it's work around a "discipline-based" approach to art education (DBAE), which had been advocated for by a few
art educators for a number of years.
The goal of DBAE was to develop students' abilities to understand and appreciate art. This involved a knowledge of the theories
and contexts of art and abilities to respond to as well as to create art. Art was to be taught as an essential component of
general education and as a foundation for specialized art study. Content for instruction was derived primarily from the disciplines
of aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and art production, disciplines dealing with: (1) conceptions of the nature of
art, (2) bases for valuing and judging art, (3) contexts in which art has been created, and (4) processes and techniques for
creating art. Content for study was derived from a broad range of the visual arts, including folk, applied, and fine arts
from Western and non-Western cultures and from ancient to contemporary times.
Three strategies intended to guide the GEI's programming decisions and assessments. Specifically, the three were: 1) leadership,
the GEI needed to create and maintain acceptance of its convictions that arts education was necessary and should be taught
in a substantial manner, behaving entrepeneurially when possible and needed; 2) collaboration, the GEI was a new player in
arts education and it needed to work with many existing arts stakeholders, some of whom could carry the message with more
credibility and to greater number of policy makers; and 3) leveraging, the GEI did not have the resources to effect this change
alone, therefore other organizations had to be encouraged to invest their own financial and staff resources.
These emphases resulted in the GEI's decision to focus its efforts into five main program areas: advocacy of the value of
arts education, professional development for school and university personnel, theory development to encourage evolution of
DBAE, curriculum development to create model instructional materials, and special initiatives to encourage others to adopt
DBAE. The program areas then developed a number of specific projects and services, for example the establishment of the Getty
Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (with in-service and district-wide implementation components), DBAE concept development,
a pre-service education assessment, a curriculum assessment project, a children's television project, and museum education
projects. As these projects were evolving, the GEI also took on responsibility for administering arts education grants from
the Getty Grant Program in 1986, with the goal of supporting the development of DBAE programs across the country.
The grant funding activities for school districts, regional consortia, and special initiatives became a substantive part of
the GEI's programming from 1986 until 1998. Keeping its three strategies at the core of its grant program, the GEI used the
initatives to sponsor actual DBAE curriculum implementation in schools, to support staff development, and to improve the quality
and status of arts education.
The grants operated under the oversight of the GEI until 1998, when the Getty Trust made the decision to dissolve the GEI.
Since a number of the grants had terms that ran until the end of fiscal year 2001, the final years of some grants were seen
to completion under the general oversight of the Getty Grant Program.
The records in accession 2007.IA.16, subject to review for permanently closed information, are open to qualified researchers.
Requests for access will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
The records in accession 2009.IA.38, subject to review for permanently closed information, are open to qualified researchers.
Requests for access will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
The records in accession 2010.IA.21, subject to review for permanently closed information, are open to qualified researchers.
Requests for access will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
The administrative records described in series 4 are closed to the public for 35 years and are subject to review upon opening.
The following 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.
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Library Rights and Reproductions .
[Cite the item and series (as appropriate)], Grant files, 1984-2001, Getty Eduction Institute for the Arts. Institutional
Archives, Getty Research Institute, Finding aid no. IA10021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia10021
Accession 2007.IA.16 was taked as a part of the Legacy Records Appraisal Project during the review of most J. Paul Getty Records
entered into storage through 1997.
Accession 2009.IA.38 was taken as part of the Legacy Records Appraisal Project, boxes were discovered in Legacy records appraisal
of Communications boxes.
Accession 2010.IA.21 was taken as part of the Legacy Records Appraisal Project, the boxes were found in Foundation records.
A box-list of the materials was created by Kyle Morgan in 2008. Nancy Enneking provided rough arrangement and description
in October 2010.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to roughly delineate series, to create accurate
content lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types. No other work has been performed on
the materials.
The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the
records. The listing is not exhaustive.
Contributing Institution:
Getty Institutional Archives
Children's Televison Records, 1984-1992, Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Institutional Archives, Getty Research
Institute, Finding aid no. IA10023.
Director Lani Duke's Records, 1986-1998, Getty Education Institute. Institutional Archives, Getty Research Institute, Finding
aid no. IA10015.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records primarily consist of correspondence, memoranda, grant proposals, review material, reports, statistics, evaluation
materials, and printed materials regarding the grant-making and related administrative activities of the Getty Education Institute
for the Arts (GEI) from the mid-1980s until 2001. The majority of the records concern the three major prongs of the GEI's
grant-making initiatives, District grants, Regional Institute grants, and Special Initiative grants, all of which are thoroughly
documented, including the assessment and evaluation aspects of the various projects. A separate set of files include documentation
of general administration and chronological correspondence regarding both the GEI's grant initiatives and other GEI initiatives
and programs. These materials include records on advisory committee meetings, budget files, conference planning, and Michigan
office administration.
The records were created and maintained by Vicki Rosenberg, staff member of the Getty Education Institute, who managed GEI
grant funding activities, largely out of an office in Michigan, and reported to GEI Program Director Lani Duke. Upon the
dissolution of the GEI, Rosenberg stayed with the grant projects under the loose and general oversight of the Getty Grant
Program until the grants expired. Please note that Rosenberg was also heavily involved in the GEI's Children's Television
Programing initiative; see the section below on related materials for access to these records.
Records are organized into four series:
I. District grants, 1984-1992
II. Regional Institute grants, 1996-2001
III. Special Initiative grants, 1986-1998
IV. Vicki Rosenberg's administative records, 1984-2001 (closed to the public for 35 years)
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Art in education -- United States -- 20th century
Art -- Study and teaching
Arts -- Education, Elementary
Arts -- Study and teaching -- United States
Proposals
Reports
Correspondence
Minutes
Administrative records
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Getty Center for Education in the Arts
Getty Education Institute for the Arts