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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 40506-0022

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF ART
207 FINE ARTS BUILDING

June 19, 1987

Dear Colleague:

I am writing this letter to you with a great deal of enthusiasm
and I hope you will share this state of excitement with me. In
the early part of May, I received a letter from the National Art
Education Association's Executive Director, Thomas Hatfield. I
was informed that I was named the editor of one of their proposed
anthologies. This new book will be on Art and Minorities. A
representative collection of selected library pieces pertaining
to issues of art, education and history, written to improve the
quality and availability of scholarly materials that could be
used by art educators, classroom teachers, administrators, and
other diverse groups is facinating and very much needed in the
literature. Putting this material in a book format would make
the literature more readily available to the general public and
professionals in the field. If you conduct a computer library
search for research, books and articles on Afro-Americans in art,
art education or art history, it's difficult to come up with a
significant amount of researched materials, and often you will
come up with materials that are out of print or in journals that
must be obtained from interlibrary loans. The point I am
attemting to make is this, the need to create this anthology and
the literature that will be written for it is great, and in order
to do a good job, I need your help.

As editor, it will be my job to give a focus to the anthology,
develop its organization and seek to sustain an analytical
discussion of issues related to Art and persons of Minority
descent. I would like particular importance to be focused on the
schooling and education of minority children. I am writing you
to invite you to submit a proposal for consideration to be
included in this text or send an original scholarly paper to be
considered for publication. As you would expect, I will favor
or in some cases, the material that has the greatest potential
use in educating minority children. The term Minority will refer
to: American Indians or Alaskan Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), Black
Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and
Africans. An enterprise such as this cannot suceed without you
(writers, teachers, artists, administrators and others).
Generally, only you can make this project work. As editor, I
will attempt to maintan a fair publication policy. Simply put,

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY UNIVERSITY